Final+Proyect

Final Project ** media type="youtube" key="A9LuoBlu51Y" height="344" width="425" My project consists in a house built in the city of Caracas, Venezuela. My client is a high executive but he doesn’t work at home so all he needs is a house made for him and his family to live in. His family is formed by him, his wife and their three children. The land in which it’s going to be built is 45x7 m. between two already built houses and it will be 9 m. tall.

Since it’s a very tall house, it will have 3 floors, connected by a system of staircases. In it there are going to be four bedrooms; one for the parents and one for each child. In each one of the bedrooms there will be a bathroom and there will also be one for visitors for a total of five.

Because of the dimensions of the house (very long but not so wide), we have to find a way for the light to enter into it. The solution I found for this problem is to have two internal yards that will allow the light to find its way into the house besides the light entering through the windows. Also the façade of house is having a big window for the light to come inside.

I’m using different materials to construct the different elements of the house.

The structure consists in a system of beams and columns and load-bearing walls. The beams and the columns are going to be made of reinforced concrete, because this material can support a lot of weight. Also to help support the load, and because it is a house for the city surrounded by other houses, the walls are being built with brick.

The rest of the walls, meaning the ones that are not supporting loads but the ones used to separate spaces, will also be made of brick.

For the windows I’m going to use float glass because this is a flat and distortion free kind of glass and it works perfectly for windows above waist height which is the case of all the windows in this house.

The handrails of the stairs will be made of steel because it’s a resistant material and it also looks good. And finally the staris and doors are going to be of wood since it’s a practical material and it gives great looks to the elements made of it.

In conclusion, this will be a house built for living purposes, constructed with different materials that will provide to it the strength and resistance a house needs to stay standing up and to adapt to the place it’s located on. Also I have considered the several elements that a house should have and have chosen the right materials so they are durable and also have a nice appearance.