Software And Biotechnology Plants
SOFTWARE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY PLANTS
Coll-Barreu Arquitectos
LOCATION
Derio, Spain
AREA
15584.63 m²
YEAR
2006
CATEGORY
Science Center
PHOTOGRAPHS
Aleix Bagué
ARCHITECTS
Coll-Barreu Arquitectos – Juan Coll-Barreu & Daniel Gutiérrez Zarza
Text description provided by architect.
The Technology Park is a center of high technology industries turns 25 in 2010. For guidelines last phase of industrial growth decided to build two new buildings for research and production, respectively, computing and biotechnology.
Both of them should work in complete independence, although the plan was considered in a unified way.
The model submitted to the competition proposed -with cedar, ebony and lemongrass- two soft insertions, no rough edges, lacking rotunda geometry –they are not circles or ellipses, or ovals-, whose perimeters should not be crossed even for access.
Two compact buildings with a ductile envelope, as a mass of grass or a plant stem, which could have existed prior to the delineation of the road.
The compactness and the façade of brushed planes allows to the eye of the moving beholder (the driver on the road, pedestrians on the sidewalks) to softly surround the objects. The façade is a double ventilated skin that allows breath the building. It connects the interior and exterior and is capitalizing energy, climatic, hygienic and space for such an exchange.
The space between the two membranes gives users a place of permanent relationship with the outside. Each user will occupy the interior according to their needs. But the construction of the façade will remain, and with it the most accurate, longer lasting elements.
It is exposed the concrete with its most naive and raw sincerity. Glass sun visors are fixed with untreated stainless steel plates. Construction is a "no preservatives" one. The exterior glass, which supports a soft pencil handmade drawing, provides a very smooth one way look, and completely open on the contrary.
