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 * __A House for a music composer __**

The purpose of the project was to design a useful structure for an artist. My idea was to build a house-workshop for a music composer. The design of the structure depended on the basic needs of the client. Keeping in mind rooms for practicing, instrument deposits, auditorium, among others.

A music composer needs to spend a big amount of time in his compositions, therefore he needs comfortable spaces for permanence and work. On the other hand, a composer is an intellectual person, simple but elegant and prestigious, so the building should be an image of himself. I decided to design a cubical building, with four floors and wide rectangular spaces, located between two other structures, that’s why it owns only two façades.

The house has two principal entries, the first one, in the back side of the ground floor, is the one where the building could be completely traveled. The other principal entrance is a stair located in the front side of the building that arrives to the first floor. Each story is distributed in different spaces. The ground floor is the public entertaining area, where the most important aspects of a music composer house are, divided in three, two double height spaces, an auditorium and a music hall, and an instrument deposit; the auditorium was specially designed for the acoustic, it has a rectangular form with a cork cover. The first floor is a double height resting hall, the connection between the first and the second floor is a small middle story designed for a dining room. The second floor has two principal spaces, a kitchen and music room. The last floor is the privacy story, divided in three spaces for bedrooms.

The construction material for this building was concrete, because is a versatile material that maximizes the space; the concrete allows the design of longer spaces with smaller columns making more useable the floor space. Although concrete has aesthetic quality, energy savings, fire resistance, durability, strength and low maintenance.

I consider that my design follows the needs of a music composer house/workshop, divided in the public area, where the composer will be able to perform his songs and practice, and a private space where the main purpose is the comfort and the resting space. Using concrete as the principal construction material for the easy developing of the simplicity and elegance of the music composer quality.

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