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Maria Mujica

Maria Mujica

Barquisimeto, VE

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Vial veneration module 1
Vial veneration module 1
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Urban Elements contest

Contest conducted by the Faculty of Architecture for all students wishing to contribute their ideas on the city´s development, considering the standardization of the street furniture, in this case the contest was based on the design: module of information, a bus stop and veneration to death people.

Consideration was given as a conditioner designed for all cases the fact characteristic speed on the roads and highways, and as this factor affects the perception of extra elements – urban raised in this context arises through formal and physical parameters consistent, pure and simple lines for quick and easy compression.

1. Bus Station: The stop as an element of social attraction allows you to search an area of continuous simple lines that relax the user visually and in turn the shelter.

The idea is to raise an outline where the continuity will prevail, achieved through a sort of ´´banda folding´´ generating spaces with different conditions for giving clarity to all elements that make up the equipment (sunscreen – rain / platform boarding / publicity and information services) and highlighting the landmark nature of road across the verticality assumed by the piece at some point.

The fact that the banda rise and fall with such lightness involves the use of lightweight metallic material to the fluidity of the design combined with stony few elements serve as a structural bases.

The piece seeks to open the highway and on the other side to frame the place where this located, its large size, responding to the fact his character terminal in some towns and hamlets.

2. Milestones vials veneration of the dead: We used the option as the main necessity of not linking and / or limit the piece to a specific religion or belief.

On the other hand the commitment to create a semi – cenotaph, raised the need for resistance (concrete), easy maintenance, simple and flowing lines (a kind of paradox emerging material form), because the veneration of the dead as such da be counted times a year.

The concept we use for the treatment piece more about the multicultural theme of death, and how most religions believed in heaven and hell, good and bad, the black and white, and so on. From this analysis, the piece is taking simple, pure and vertically represents the ascent with the angles emphasized in their faces that forced the apparent leak of the element. Its interior allows the placement of some images that represent the religion for which then finish concatenate a conceptual framework where the form is directly connected with the connection between life and death.

3. A Big Road Sign: Obviously the talk of signals, the visual theme is the first thing that goes through our minds. The idea of this equipment is its reporting function, but did not want to stay there, but also upload a semiology literal, find that the piece is expressed and generates emotion, achieved through the use of the exclamation mark as a symbol. Naturalness and optimism would then transmitted to the driver unconscious emotions across this great milestone, as a large vertical element.

The item has proposed concrete with steel reinforcements required and in turn reinforced by emptying a nerve in conjunction with the piece.

Like other equipment, conforms with continuous and fluid lines that emphasize simplicity and clarity of the element.

 
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Status: Competition Entry
Location: Barquisimeto, VE
My Role: Designer

 
Vial veneration module 2
Vial veneration module 2
Big Road Sign
Big Road Sign
Bus station
Bus station