Mollet del Valles Police Station in Spain by taller 9s arquitectes

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The police station is located in a municipal lot near the center of the city. It forms part of an unitary project jointly with the municipal library and the urbanization of the adjacent public space. The placement of the two buildings, solves the connectivity between the different free spaces of the environment and allows creating a square in front of the building, from which public access is generated.

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• Architects: taller 9s arquitectes
• Project: Mollet del Valles Police Station
• Location: C. Joaquim Mir, Mollet el Vallès, Barcelona
• Photography: Adrià Goula
• Promoter: Mollet del Vallès City Council
  
• Quatity Surveior: Juan Carlos Cayuela, Mollet del Vallès City Council
  
• Architect Collaborators: Jordi Tomasa, Catarina Marques
  
• Construction Company: Abolafio construccions
  
• Strucutre Design: Carmela Torró i Núria Rello
  
• Facilities Engineer: Lluis J. Duart Consulting
  
• Area(m²): 1.962m2
  
• End of Works: 2017

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The two facilities  are understood as a unitary piece that breaks to allow the extension of green and light. The police station, like the future library, closes to the street with opaque facades and opens to the new public space with a glazed and diaphanous façade. The work spaces face to the park and have a system of slats to improve solar and light control. In contrast to the traditional image of police stations, as sober and hermetic institutional building, the new police station is projected as a friendly building open to the city and citizenship.

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The differents levels of the place allows to solve a double access. On the middle floor, public access is resolved from the new plaza, and on the lower floor it is placed the restricted access for police and vehicles, with direct connection to the internal areas for the agents. The central corridor opens to the views at its ends, and on the upper floor a linear skylight optimizes the entry of light into the central bay and facilitates natural ventilation.

The ventilated facades of polymeric concrete, the green roof, the installation of thermal solar panels, the optimization of glazing and the passive systems, allow to reduce by 49% the energy consumption of an equivalent administrative building.

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

Image Courtesy © Adrià Goula

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Tags: Mollet del Valles, ​​Spain

Category: Police Station

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