Mapa Arquitetos

CREA-PB Headquarters

CREA-PB Headquarters
© Leonardo Finotti

CREA-PB HEADQUARTERS

Mapa

ARCHITECTS
Mapa

LOCATION
Campina Grande, Brazil

CATEGORY
Square, Community

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
MAAM + Studioparalelo

PHOTOGRAPHS
Leonardo Finotti

AREA
780 m²

PROJECT YEAR
2012

STRUCTURE
Tecnon (estructura global), Valls Engenharia (estructura brises).

CONSTRUCTION
AHP Construções e empreendimentos

RENDERS
Maammedia

CONSTRUCTION AUDITION
Vilanova Arquitetos: Marcus Vinicius, Fabiano Melo, Camila Vilar.

AUTORS
Luciano Andrades, Matías Carballal, Rochelle Castro, Andrés Gobba, Mauricio López, Silvio Machado, Álvaro Méndes

PROJECT TEAM
Sebastian Caram, Gerard Rouillier, Pablo Courreges, Emiliano Etchegaray, Belén García, Gabriel Giambastiani, Jaqueline Lessa, Alexis Arbelo, Pamela Davyt, Aldo Lanzi, Sebastián Martínez, Nicolás Rudolph, Ken Sei Fong.

Located in Campina Grande (Paraíba) this building was designed and built to accommodate the new headquarters of CREA (Engineering Council Body).

CREA-PB Headquarters
© Leonardo Finotti
CREA-PB Headquarters
© Leonardo Finotti

The precast concrete permeable “skin” does not resemble the usual glazed institutional buildings, impervious and impermeable.

Instead its transparency and lightness give the whole building qualities recommended for the modern state institutions.

CREA-PB Headquarters
© Leonardo Finotti
CREA-PB Headquarters
© Leonardo Finotti

Inside, the patios play the main role – transparent and covered with glass panels over the main circulation areas, fully permeable over the garden and the reflective pool on the ground floor.

THE PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED IN TWO LEVELS

The upper floor accommodates the administrative functions - divided in two sections connected by a metallic walkway while the ground floor receives the public functions with a multipurpose room able to work as a lecture space, seating up to 150 people.

CREA-PB Headquarters
© Leonardo Finotti
CREA-PB Headquarters
© Leonardo Finotti
CREA-PB Headquarters
© Leonardo Finotti

The main hall and other areas are open and unfenced – totally permeable – and all connected and delimited by its double height internal patio space.


CREA-PB Headquarters
© Leonardo Finotti
CREA-PB Headquarters
© Leonardo Finotti


CREA-PB Headquarters
Elevation 01
CREA-PB Headquarters
Elevation 02


CREA-PB Headquarters
Section 1
CREA-PB Headquarters
Section 2


CREA-PB Headquarters
Ground Floor Plan 
CREA-PB Headquarters
Upper Floor Plan 

Mapa Arquitetos
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Mapa Arquitetos
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