Castellana 79 Office and Commercial Building in Madrid, Spain by Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos

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This property is located in the financial and commercial centre of the city, nearby one of the best office buildings in Madrid. With a distinctly urban character it presents a great opportunity to meet the city in two very different scales: an urban scale from the most important communication channel in Madrid, and a domestic scale, from a plaza with a leading pedestrian character.

Castellana 79 Building

• Architects: Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos
• Project: Castellana 79 Office and Commercial Building
• Location: Madrid, Spain
• Type: Office and Commercial Building
• Design Architects: Francisco Arévalo, Hugo Berenguer
• Project Director: Angel Rolán
• Construction Supervisor Architect: Juana Ponsoda

Night View

• Project Manager: Paola Merani, arquitecta
• Architecture Technician: Elena Elósegui Górriz, Francisco Javier, Fernández Martín
• Computer Graphics Design: Luis Muñoz, Daniel Roris
• Models: Víctor Coronel (arquitecto), Fernando Mont
• Architects Collaborators: Ignacio Jaso, Javier Gómez, CarmenSalinas, Encarnación Sánchez, Marta Tobías
• Consulting Engineers: Úrculo Ingenieros Consultores, S.L.
• Structures engineering: ESTAI, OTEP Internacional
• Building start and finish date: (Co) 2009 – (Fo) 2011

Castellana 79 Building

• Building status: Construido en 2011 | Built in 2011
• Constructed surface area (below ground level): 9160m2 | squared meters
• Constructed surface area (above ground level): 11593m2 | squared meters
• Total built-up area: 20753 m2 | squared meters
• Site type: Urbano | Urban
• Number of stories : 8 (above ground level) + 4 (below ground level)
• Promoter – Client : Pontegadea Inmobiliaria, S.L.
• Construction company: GOA-Invest, S.A.

Interior View

These urban premises and the customer’s requests (a singular building but a discreet one at the same time) have conditioned the idea for the project right from the beginning.  A neutral, abstract, flat façade, but at the same time live and with volume. Lights and shadows that, with the passing of the day and the seasons, change and tinge the smooth skin of glass with the different finishes proposed. Opacity and transparency. Reflections and shadows that are never the same.

East Facade

Flat glass like squares: white and dark (the colour of the steel in BBVA building). Glass volume with shadows and reflections as a three-dimensional board, steel and glass separated by mirrors which increase the feeling of weightlessness in this second skin.  Steel parts that show or hide (depending on the point of view) the dark squares on the game board of the inner skin.

Facade (Image Courtesy Pedro Guarddon)

In short, a “live” façade which vibrates with sunlight or softens without the direct impact of it, depending on the point and the time it is observed.

Facade (Image Courtesy Pedro Guarddon)

Skin Detail South & East Corner

Skin Detail South Facade

South Facade

South Facade

Tags: Madrid, Spain

Categories: Commercial Building, Offices

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