Coll - Barreu Arquitectos

E8 Building

E8 BUILDING

Coll-Barreu Arquitectos

E8 Building
© Aleix Bagué

ARCHITECTS
Coll-Barreu Arquitectos - Juan Coll-Barreu, Daniel Gutiérrez Zarza

AREA
12974 m²

YEAR
2011

PHOTOGRAPHS
Aleix Bagué

LOCATION
Vitoria, Spain

E8 Building
© Aleix Bagué

Text description provided by architect.

The E8 building is the result of a design competition called with the intention of highlight an ambitious expansion of Alava Technology Park, an institutional commitment to research whose validity and future should be represented by the building. The Park will rent or sell the full building by plants or by modules.

The design should incorporate this uncertainty in use, which was taken as a positive requirement. The architecture must allow modify programs and adapt to uses, be transformable, such as the old buildings. Paradoxically, the building then gains in stability, in possibilities: we can say that the building wins time.

E8 Building
© Aleix Bagué
E8 Building
© Aleix Bagué

The E8 Building develops a climate control strategy based on an internal very isolated waterproof shell and another envelope, exterior, ventilated, that works like a parasol.

In winter, the intermediate chamber is a mattress that distances the building from the cold outside.

On warm days, the system produces a natural shot which cools the interior façade by pressure differences. This results into significant savings in consumption and a huge reduction in emissions.The extension determined by planning supposed to move forward land close to pastures and oak forests.

E8 Building
© Aleix Bagué
E8 Building
© Aleix Bagué

E8 Building
© Aleix Bagué

We wanted that, despite the obligated transformations that the arrival of buildings produce, the history of the place remained, with their layers of time, with his memory, with the memory of its form.

E8 Building rises, is crossed, flies and looks. So, natural landscape is present. The building will then be a record, a register, a safeguard.

The E8 Building develops a climate control strategy based on an internal very isolated waterproof shell and another envelope, exterior, ventilated, that works like a parasol.

E8 Building
© Aleix Bagué
E8 Building
© Aleix Bagué

In winter, the intermediate chamber is a mattress that distances the building from the cold outside.

On warm days, the system produces a natural shot which cools the interior façade by pressure differences. This results into significant savings in consumption and a huge reduction in emissions.


E8 Building
Elevation 01
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Elevation 04
E8 Building
Elevation 03
E8 Building
Elevation 02


E8 Building
1st Floor Plan
E8 Building
2nd Floor Plan
E8 Building
Ground Floor Plan
E8 Building
3rd Floor Plan
E8 Building
Basement floor plan
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Roof Plan
E8 Building
Site Plan

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