Matos Castillo Architects

Comisaría Provincial De Albacete

Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki

COMISARÍA PROVINCIAL DE ALBACETE

Matos-Castillo Arquitectos

CONSTRUCTION
Construcciones VILLEGAS

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Alberto Martínez Castillo, Beatriz Matos Castaño

INSTALLATION
Úrculo Ingenieros

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
SEGIPSA

STRUCTURE
Valladares Ingeniería

COLLABORATORS
Borja Álvarez, Martina Schlüter, Alejandra Martínez De La Riva, Julián Ramírez Rentero, Tómer Kenin, Eva Roense

SURVEYOR
Alberto López Díez

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hisao Suzuki

AREA
265 m²

YEAR
2006

LOCATION
Albacete, Spain

CATEGORY
Police Station

Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki
Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki

The program of the building consists essentially of police offices. It has a public space with a lobby, an issuing passports or ID area and a complaints authority, and it also includes parking for police vehicles, a security area, changing rooms and a dwelling for the inspector.

Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki
Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki

The building is defined by the perimeter of the site, even though if the main façade gives five meters to the city in order to dignify the access by a narrow sidewalk.

The entry is set up under a cantilever, which reaches all the available space. The slope between the streets allows police vehicles to enter at almost the level of the garage floor, located beneath the pedestrian access.

Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki
Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki
Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki

The ground floor gives material form to a concrete plinth closed to the outside.

As opposed to the interior, that unfolds a series of lighting spaces illuminated by perforated patios.

The parking becomes a place for relationship due to four coloured holes that are crossing the ground floor and take light from the roof or from the patios.

The idea of solidity and transparency suitable in a police team is reflected in the concrete base, where a glass prism relies.

Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki
Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki

Drilling holes on concrete should had a continuity, the answer to it is the concept of a lattice, where holes are an essential part of the strength of the wall.

The trapezoidal modulation of simultaneous plan project became the facade of the station. Sometimes these unexpected things happen.

Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki
Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki

The two facades of the lattice correspond to public areas and main communications. Constructed in-situ, both sides, inner and outer are made of concrete.

The piece of glass hosts on two floors the offices and other branches.

Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki
Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki

Its orientation and internal organization make the two long facades different to each other, a glass wall oriented northwest (offices) and a double skin of glass and vertical louvers oriented southeast (communications).

The colour of the glass louvers has no specific references and helps to eliminate old stereotypes.

Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki
Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki
Comisaría Provincial De Albacete
© Hisao Suzuki


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Garage plan
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Ground Floor plan
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Floor plan 1
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Floor plan 2


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South East Plan
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South West Plan


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Section A
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Section B
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Section C
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Section D


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Diagtram Section

Matos Castillo Architects
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Matos Castillo Architects
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