Paul Venturella

Thesis in Architectural Design

Mixed-use Tower in Madrid

Paolo Venturella's Degree Thesis

Email: paoloventurella@gmail.com
University of Rome "La Sapienza" Faculty of Architecture "Valle Giulia"
EU Architecture Degree Course
Speaker: Prof. Alfonso Giancotti
Academic Year 2009 - 2010

The 42 storey mixed use tower lies along the "Paseo de la Castellana", the main axis of the city.
Instead of letting urban space at the street level it rise up as a spiral creating public green terraces at different highs looking at the city and mixing functions.
Functions are displaced according to solar exposure in NS axis and WE axis blocks due to the different climatic behavior they have. Living spaces need hot accumulation so they face south and working spaces need to refresh so they are perpendicular to solar rays.