Vital Building
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
