< PreviousJOURNAL 130 131 JOURNAL Architecture | Prof. Andrea Parigi ARC 320 Sustainable Architecture ARC VICTOR ORTIZJOURNAL 132 133 JOURNAL The project site is located in Piazza Brunelleschi in Florence. The project consists of designing an art gallery where a University of Florence building is currently located. Today, the square is located northeast of the Duomo. Residents of the area currently use the space as parking. The square polygon is divided into nine proportional squares. The centre is extracted to generate a patio, a space in which the emptiness is the receptor of the external light towards the interior. The project seeks to show a closed façade, which seems not to be permeable like the buildings in Florence, but when entering the interior, the patio generates a feeling of spaciousness and permeability. Architecture | Prof. Alessio Palandri ARC 340 Architecture in its Environment An Art Gallery in Brunelleschi Square, Florence ARC ALEJANDRO EMILIANO DOMINGUEZ YÁŇEZJOURNAL 134 135 JOURNAL Located in Filippo Brunelleschi square this project is a contemporary art museum near Brunelleschi rotunda, a fifteenth-century monastery chapel. The museum, made by two rectangular volumes, derives from following the parallels lines from the adjacent buildings. One volume contains the museum program and the other one is a void. This second volume is an entrance patio surrounded by a high loggia with a water mirror in the middle, on which reflects upon the massive columns and an art piece (in this case by Alexander Calder). The museum façades follow the rhythm of loggia with walls of massive columns growing from the floor up to the roof, closed by glass to protect from the outside. Another water mirror is arranged in between the museum and the Brunelleschi rotunda. This water mirror is 2 cm thick with a grid of sprinkles that release droplets of water into the air to create steam, doing an interactive public space and highlighting the surrounding buildings by the water reflection. Architecture | Prof. Alessio Palandri ARC 340 Architecture in its Environment An Art Gallery in Brunelleschi Square, Florence ARC RENATA OLIVARES ESPINOZAJOURNAL 136 137 JOURNAL The design of the new museum is based on a combination between the character of the ancient Florentine buildings with their heavy façades made of stone and small windows, and a contemporary style, made of lighter facades. The materials of the building, in fact, mainly consists of brick alike panels, glass panels, concrete and steel, trying to remind the essence of florentine style made of heavy architecture, but being combined with some characteristics of lightness own of contemporary architecture. The idea of the project is also to maintain the old Italian habit to have a piazza in front of the building open to the public. In this project the square is moved on the first level allowing a better view towards the Santa Maria degli Angeli chapel. Architecture | Prof. Alessio Palandri ARC 340 Architecture in its Environment An Art Gallery in Brunelleschi Square, Florence ARC RODRIGO SOSA MCQUADEJOURNAL 138 139 JOURNAL Architecture | Prof. Alessio Palandri ARC 340 Architecture in its Environment An Art Gallery in Brunelleschi Square, Florence ARC Located in the city of Florence the museum is in a strategic point of the city, about two-hundred meters far from Santa Maria del Fiore, and next to one of the seats of the University of Florence. The site, part of which nowadays is used as a parking lot, is to be host for an art gallery. The new square works as a connection point for residents and students, and as a start point of the concept of the new building. It works in the same time as element of connectivity, meeting point, square and art gallery, creating a new atmosphere in the square but maintaining the spirit and the functions that it has had in the past centuries. SANTIAGO ZENDEJAS URQUIZANext >