Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
Rehabilitation of a Civic Center in Lanzarote, Spain by MPC arquitectos (designed using AutoCAD)
October 20th, 2011 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: MPC arquitectos
This reform Project for the existing Güime Civic Center (CCGU) is located in the Municipality of San Bartolomé in Lanzarote Island, Spain. The facility is located in a site of 2217m2 with an ‘L’ shape and oriented N-S in its longitudinal configuration.
Name of Project: Rehabilitation of a Civic Center in Lanzarote
Location: Güime, Lanzarote Island, Spain
Collaborator: Santiago González (architect)
Structure: Lain Ingenieros Consultores+ ryg arquitectos
Photographs: Jin Taira
Software used: AutoCAD
Exterior View (Images Courtesy Jin Taira)
Infrastructure: Lain Ingenieros Consultores
Construction company: Lugora Insular
Client: Municipality of San Bartolomé of Lanzarote
Project area: 968 sqm
Project year: 2010 – 2011
Images Courtesy Jin Taira
The building occupies 851m2 in the north side of the lot. The volume is conformed through the combination of white prisms added without any planning. The structure is organized in two floors offering the north façade towards the Plaza and the Church of San Antonio. In the south side there is a sport area to recover, including a petanque area to cover, and a barbecue area inaccessible to disable people.
Images Courtesy Jin Taira
The actual facility presents important deficiencies, as the insufficient infrastructure systems, the partially covered patio, the low height of the scenario (2.27mts), the poor connexion with the existing Plaza of San Antonio, the lack of requirements fulfilments in of fire evacuation and disable people accessibility.
Images Courtesy Jin Taira
Therefore, Güime Civic Center develops the following Project strategies:
Improve the thermal insulation response of the building increasing the thickness of the perimeter wall and incorporating insulation boards.
Improve the sewage infrastructure network of the building with a separate system in sanitary and storm sewages.
Improve the conditions in case of fire evacuation through a new plan layout creating direct and wider connections to secure spaces.
Improve the structure conditions through the addition of a new central box that reinforces existing structure and suppressing unnecessary slabs.
Improve central functional space incorporating a white box, able to cover, illuminate, ventilate and organize a wider performance space surrounded by a multipurpose corridor environment.
Improve the accessibility suppressing different steps or tight corridors in the existing building.
Improve the connection of the building towards the northern plaza and the southern sport area, creating a permeable transversely.
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