Aguirre Architecture Studio

Vital Building

Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos

VITAL BUILDING

Mozas Aguirre arquitectos

ARCHITECTS
Mozas Aguirre arquitectos - Javier Mozas & Eduardo Aguirre ; Artists: Javier Perez: two walls and ceiling of the main hall / Miguel Gonzalez de San Román: paintings on the basement

MANUFACTURERS
Alpolic, Alucoil, Bfm

AREA
11042.0 m²

YEAR
2005

LOCATION
Madrid, Spain

CATEGORY
Institutional Buildings

Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos

Text description provided by architect.

This is the headquarters for the local savings bank.

The building reproduces the scale of the surrounding small woods, a park of the Natura 2000 networking programme.

Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos
Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos

The floor plan has a chromosome shape with four arms.

The structural concept is based on pairs of exterior metal supports, clad in stainless steel composite panels.

Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos
Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos

One of the arms has been conceived as a 26 meter cantilever.

In this case the concept changes and the pairs do not have any structural function.

Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos
Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos

A double height hall located in the heart of the building has its two façades enclosed by a work of art.

They have been constructed with bright red polyurethane panels with a manually painted biological pattern.

Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos
Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos

The idea is to identify the building as a live organism in motion. A black skin made of glass protects the inhabited spaces behind the stainless steel pairs.


Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos
Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos
Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos
Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos
Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos
Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos
Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos
Vital Building
© Mozas Aguirre arquitectos


Vital Building
Vital Building


Vital Building
Vital Building


Vital Building
Vital Building


Vital Building
Vital Building

Aguirre Architecture Studio
T +34 945 133609
Aguirre Architecture Studio
Bulevar de Salburua Kalea, 8, Salburua, 01002 Gasteiz, Araba, Spain