12 Projects in 120 Constraints: Plan:b Architects

by Felipe Mesa, Federico Mesa (Editor)

Overview

In this book, we review a set of Plan:b projects in Colombia through the environmental, social, and voluntary constraints we faced, and the interim agreements we built around them. We carry out a reconstruction of the central facts behind these buildings through an “inverse” exercise—explaining each project based on contextual constraints and not on singular architectural ideas. We review the work of other authors and the way they understand limitations and difficulties that are part of their creative activity and attempt to generate a broad reflective base to approach our architectural projects and the predominant role that restrictions have played in them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951541422
Publisher:	ORO Editions
Publication date:	04/27/2021
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Felipe Mesa is an architect at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, in Colombia. He holds an M.Arch from the Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (ETSAB) in Spain. Felipe is founder partner and principal at Plan:b architects, a firm based in Medellín, Colombia. He is an assistant professor at the Arizona State University, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the Design School.

Federico Mesa is an architect at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia. He holds an M. Arch from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), Colombia and is Partner and Principal at Plan:b architects, firm based in Medellín, Colombia. Federico is an assistant professor at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Facultad de Arquitectura, Colombia.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD 06 - Andrés Jaque INTRODUCTION 08 ANGLES 13 THREE QUESTIONS 14 THREE TYPES OF CONSTRAINTS 16 OBSTACLES 18 RULES 20 THREE METHODS 22 ONE CONCEPT 24 SEVEN CRUTCHES 26 ONE DIRECTION 28 FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS 30 ONE VOW OF CHASTITY 32 PROBLEMS 34 SEVEN FIGURES 36 12 PROJECTS IN 120 CONSTRAINTS 38 SAN VICENTE COMMUNITY CENTER 40 PUERTO TRIUNFO COMMUNITY CENTER 48 SANTO DOMINGO KINDERGARTEN 56 EMBERA SCHOOL 64 SIETE VUELTAS SCHOOL 72 JARDIN SCHOOL 80 SAN VICENTE SCHOOL 88 HONTANARES SCHOOL 96 CLICK CLACK HOTEL - MEDELLIN 104 ANTEJARDIN 112 FOUR SPORT FACILITIES 120 ORQUIDEORAMA 128 EPILOGUE 136 COMMENTS 138 Emilio Tuñón 138 Federico Soriano 139