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A residential building for teachers

media type="youtube" key="KCesl5zgfhI" height="385" width="480" A residential building for teachers In the XXI century is very important the relationship between the work and the living place. The city has become the center of all our activities; this fact includes students and even teachers. In a city like this, I had received a proposal to build a residential building that incorporates different activities such as a library, a gym, a restaurant and some others, and it has to be near the job, that is, a university. I have designed this residential building for teachers, formed principally by two volumes, connected by a halo of light to differentiate them. The principal volume is in the upper part and has the living purpose, with 10 apartments in the upper part and a gym in the lower part. The other volume located in the back side of the terrain, has all the services of the residence building that includes a kitchen, a restaurant, a cyber café-bookshop, a library and a wonderful garden in the upper side. The concept of my building is to relate the volumes by a halo of light in the center to make long spaces in the main floor. The materials used for this building are mainly, rubble for decoration and the garden place, reinforced concrete to all the walls and structure (beams and columns mainly), wood in apartments and other places to the floor and walls, glass in the principal façade, and concrete shell in the roofs of the two volumes. The structure has been conceived giving importance to gain space between columns and floors, making the sensation of a wonderful and infinite space even at the entrance, there are not long walls over the space (there are only load bearing walls in façades) because the building is supported by a combination of post and lintel system and steel framed structure. The terrain located near the Simon Bolivar University provides a long space for viewing and living. This building is located in front of a square, designed by a great architect giving a lot of importance to the relation of nature and the built places. This building is a masterpiece conceived to separate the work and the living place in a piece that combines the entire recreational activities related to the home, a different place that makes us feel comfortable and peaceful.