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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. Social Center in Mesoiro in A Coruña, Spain by NAOS ArchitectureApril 4th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: NAOS ARCHITECTURE The building was designed to be a social and services center in a neighbourhood with a high population growth rates in recent years. It includes a gathering place for neighbours and the cultural equipment: multi-use rooms, auditorium, reading room, play room, others spaces for children and adults and office works.  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez
The programme develops in a single floor at ground level. The building and rooms are entered through a front interior courtyard that is directly connected to the hall and auditorium. This courtyard is protected place from prevailing winds of the zone and it serves as an outside play area for children, but joined to the interior play room. The building is arranged into three volumes. The greater height volume has an entrance hall and multi-purpose room. The next volume houses a play room, social offices, reading room, multipurpose room, dressing rooms, toilets and plant rooms. The distribution of the edifice proposes to create a large open space in the center. The space can be divided according to needs of exhibitions or events it houses, using movable panels.  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez In this way, this possibility of distribution means an improvement in the use of the building, connecting the two spaces: entrance hall and multipurpose room, and the central courtyard too. This large area offers great versatility and flexibility to the usage of building that can change frequently. It also has a detachable stage with a practical system that takes advantage the auditorium as other multipurpose room more.  Exterior View (Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez) On both sides of the central volume, two pieces were constructed with functional purpose. The play room oriented to the courtyard and the meeting place for elder people. A building with energetic requirements indicated by the budget has to be designed under the concept of making good use of the environment energetic resources. Also, the design of the materials should be optimized, giving it durability and low maintenance cost, with the aim of easing and making possible the future rentability of this investment.  Exterior View (Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez)  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez  Images Courtesy Hector Santos-Díez
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