Alberto Campo Baeza, Arquitecto

Zamora Offices

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ZAMORA OFFICES

Alberto Campo Baeza

COLLABORATORS
Ignacio Aguirre López, Miguel Ciria Hernández

COLLABORATORS
Ignacio Aguirre López, Miguel Ciria Hernández

STRUCTURAL
Eduardo Díez - IDEEE

INSTALLATIONS
Úrculo Ingenieros

RIGGER
Juan José Bueno Crespo

GLASS CONSULTANT
José Pablo Calvo Busello

CONTRACTOR
UTE Edificio Consejo Consultivo: Dragados

PROMOTOR
Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Hacienda

DESIGN TEAM
Alberto Campo Baeza, Pablo Fernández Lorenzo, Pablo Redondo Díez, Alfonso González Gaisán, Francisco Blanco Velasco

MANUFACTURERS
Cebrace

PHOTORAPHS
Javier Callejas

AREA
12100.0 m²

YEAR
2012

LOCATION
Zamora, Spain

CATEGORY
Office Buildings

Text description provided by architect.

In collaboration with Pablo Fernández Lorenzo, Pablo Redondo Díez, Alfonso González Gaisán and Francisco Blanco Velasco.

Zamora Offices
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Facing the cathedral and following the outline of the former convent’s kitchen garden, we erect a strong stone wall box open to the sky.

Its walls and floors entirely made of stone. The very same stone as the Cathedral. A real Hortus Conclusus. In the corner facing the cathedral, a massive stone measuring 250x150x50, a veritable Cornerstone. And chiselled on that stone:

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HIC LAPIS ANGULARIS MAIO MMXII POSITO

Within the stone box, a glass box, only glass. Like a greenhouse. With a double facade similar to a Trombe wall.

The external skin of the facade is made of glass, each single sheet measuring 600x300x1,2 and all joined together simply with structural silicone and hardly anything else. As if entirely made of air.

The trihedral upper angles of the box are made completely with glass, thus even further accentuating the effect of transparency.

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Precisely what Mies was looking for in his Friedrichstrasse tower. The trihedron built with air, a true Glass Corner. And engraved in acid on the glass:

HOC VITRUM ANGULARIS MAIO MMXII POSITO

The stone box made from Memory. With its Cornerstone deeplyrooted in the soil.

The glass box made for the Future. With its Glass Corner blending into the sky.

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Alberto Campo Baeza, Arquitecto
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