Final+Project

This page has information about our final project, here you can find about the needs of the structure, the context of the same and the materials used for its construction.


 * Project: Municipal Justice Building of Chacao.

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The municipal justice building of Chacao, is located in Chacao in front of " El Indio" square. This building was inaugurated in 2008 with the purpose to offer to the people who live in this municipality legal orientation, conflict resolutions, promotion and prevention of citizen rights. The build started under Leopoldo López administration and was completed in the Emilio Grateron administration.

The building context is between the Francisco de Miranda Avenue and Sucre street, for this reason the building is a visual element very important, because delimitate these roads while announces the historical Chacao town with the letters upward of the same.

The municipal justice building was designed by Alessandro Famiglietti, an architect graduated at UCV (Universidad Central de Venezuela). The project was thought in a structure that respond to the needs in small place, for this occupying 831 square meters, the building has 5 floors and a basement.

All the structure has a simple style with very clean and precise lines.

The main facade is eastward, so using glass for a big part of this the architect can create a face very transparent that use in the morning the sunlight that with the helps of an external structure create a great conditions and the ideal temperature.

In the same way, in this part of the building is the entry that has a stairs and a ramp for the disable people. Also, for continue the square style the building has a seat very similar, offer to the public a comfortable and harmonious place. The right part of this facade is made of orange ceramic, playing with the colors of the municipal logo, and the clock at the beginning of this vertical strip.

The south facade, follow the glass pattern, but this is very stretch.

The north facade is very simple and cold, because just use different kind of gray and has 4 little windows.

The last facade is westward; this is just concrete with an empty square in the right part in the last floor, that permits the see the other side.

The base shape of the building is a trapeze and its distribution on each floor is very simple, because always there are the baths, the stairs, the elevator, the lunch space and the small cubicles.

The structure of the municipal building is basically supported by dowels and columns, but for its construction was used wood dot the concrete pouring.

In conclusion the building is build almost with concrete, offering few properties to the structure like hardness, waterproof and fireproof, providing security to the public. Also the details are realized with steel and glass for the windows to save energy.