Basilio Tobías Pintre, Arquitecto

Building Expo 2008

Building Expo 2008
© Pedro Pegenaute

BUILDING EXPO 2008

Basilio Tobías

CATEGORY
Museums & Exhibit, Institutional Buildings

LOCATION
Spain

ARCHITECTS
Basilio Tobías

AREA
5351.57 m²

YEAR
2007

PHOTOGRAPHS
Pedro Pegenaute

The building consists of two prismatic volumes. The volume corresponding to the ground floor establishes the closest relationship to the avenue.

Building Expo 2008
© Pedro Pegenaute
Building Expo 2008
© Pedro Pegenaute

The entrance appearing as an insert in the encircling glass wall where a clearly horizontal proportion emerges above a covered garden area, the covering intended to encourage the use of the area.

The orientation of the volume of the ground floor, (the most public of the zones in the building) gently slides towards the east the volume of the four floors with its central core, a flexible organization of the different floors is thereby allowed and the under cover area’s vertical position is reinforced by the encirclement of its area.

Building Expo 2008
© Pedro Pegenaute
Building Expo 2008
© Pedro Pegenaute

This volume characterized by the autonomy proportioned to its projection by the inner body and by its double vitreous skin formed by the crystallized inner façade and the enveloping glass panes which are arranged at the far end of the boundary of the footbridge which surrounds the upper floors.

Respecting the quality of the thermal and acoustic controls which this system intends and adding to it to the role of giving the building a changing and multi-faceted feature as part of the reflections which the different angles of the sun can produce in the different facades proportioning a singular vision within strict volumetric perimeters which must strengthen the long-term outlook of the building.


Building Expo 2008
© Pedro Pegenaute
Building Expo 2008
© Pedro Pegenaute
Building Expo 2008
© Pedro Pegenaute
Building Expo 2008
© Pedro Pegenaute
Building Expo 2008
© Pedro Pegenaute


Building Expo 2008
1st floor plan
Building Expo 2008
2nd floor plan
Building Expo 2008
3rd floor plan
Building Expo 2008
4th flloor plan
Building Expo 2008
5th floor plan
Building Expo 2008
roof floor plan


Building Expo 2008
section
Building Expo 2008
east elevation
Building Expo 2008
site plan

Basilio Tobías Pintre, Arquitecto
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Basilio Tobías Pintre, Arquitecto
P.º de los Ruiseñores, 23, 50006 Zaragoza, Spain