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.
NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR GAMESA EOLIC in Pamplona, Spain by Vaillo + Irigaray Architects
August 25th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Vaillo + Irigaray Architects.
INFRAESTRUCTRUAL LANDMARK
Gamesa is a multinational company engaged in the manufacture and maintenance of wind turbines for green energy production.
The building is situated in a micro-suburban landscape into a business park. This technology park is characterized by an implantation of buildings in isolation, in a green environment.
Surrounded by road links, the project responds as a great infraestructural landmark, as a large transparent tank. An autonomous geometry floating on a green hillside.
Work team: Javier Gil, architect, Lucía Astrain, architect, Iñigo Beguiristain, architect, Juan Carlos de la Iglesia, Ángel Álvarez, Oscar Martínez, Isabel Franco
Quantity surveyor: Jorge Visiers Elizaicín
Structural engineering: OPERA INGENIERÍA, Raúl Escrivá Peyró, Civil Engineer
Engineering: NAVEN Ingenieros – José María Moro, INGENIERÍA PROYECTOS NAVARRA, S.l.
The project is proposed associating in its projective genesis reduction of energy consumption and typological requirements.
The circular shape of the plant, apart from internal functional advantages, helps optimizing the building form factor.
This cylindrical geometry reduces by 35% the facade surface over a rectangular building of similar functional characteristics.
We are located in the dominant part of the park (including modifications to the development plan). It is the top of a small green hill.
The building is seen from kilometers away, from the highway. The existing lighting in the immediate environment as an “urban fringe style”: weak, unsaturated, orange and manufacturing.
The new tank-building acquires the nuances of a glassy-liquid solid, the deep green of the LEDs. This color is conjugated whit the green inner liners and is visible from the outside.
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