Jose Carlo Bolaños Padilla

advisor

University of Costa Rica, School of Architecture, San José

Costa Rican

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Hello Ziyana, hope you are doing well. First, I want to tell you that your project looks very warm and coherent with the progam activities you are proposing. The textures and volumes you used seem smooth and clean, so the proposal really makes me imagine my exprience while I explore and live each space. Following, I address some points that you can try to apply in your project:

1. Outdoors. The balance between outdoor and interior spaces seems correct for your project. Certainly, vegetation is a very useful element in landscape design that you may try to explore deeply so you can feel these spaces as part of your design. You can try to continue elements such as floor textures and furniture so the outdoors can increase the vary of activities and the microatmospheres the user has to develop. Also, these elements can help you bring shadows and lights that will improve the exprience in each corner of your project.

2. Surfaces. The wooden textures and the textiles you used help you give the project a warmer feeling. Also, mixing wood with raw concrete gives the project a modern look without losing its spirtiual condition. You can try to continue wooden patterns in combination with the textiles in roofs so the daylight conditions can show different textures of shadow during the day. This condition will also serve you as a design tool to increase the perceptual experience of the user.

3. Lights. You may try to apply more artificial lights so the project can maintain its life with darker conditions. Lights can also help you to emphasize volumes. As well as external lights, the internal lights will guide the user through the project and its spiritual journey. In this kind of projects, light is a very important element you can try to explore with detail in each space.

For the project´s theme, your proposal has great potential. The images you presented evidence your work and order in the design process. As a summary, I will like to see more landscape design so you may have spiritual interior and outdoor spaces. Also, I will like to see more interior spaces. I hope my comments can help you in your design. Feel free of contacting me if there´s any doubt.
21.05.2022