Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL PARK OF CANTABRIA

Pablo Notari Oviedo + Sumar + Conurma

Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal

ARCHITECTS
CONURMA Ingenieros Consultores , Pablo Notari Oviedo, SUMAR urbanismo y arquitectura

MANUFACTURERS
Technal, Trespa 

COLLABORATORS
Judith Krassnig, Juan Peters, Zuriñe Elorduy Uriarte

DRAWINGS
José Luis Paredes Conde

BUDGET
Manuel Sevilla Seoane, Begoña Barrios Jiménez

FACILITIES ENGINEER
David Torremocha Mesto

DIRECTOR
Pablo Notari Oviedo

STRUCTURE
Rafael García Lorenzana

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
María Casariego Córdoba, Begoña Vives Vinent

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT
Diego Poza

AREA
10000 m²

YEAR
2011

LOCATION
Santander, Spain

CATEGORY
Office Buildings, Sustainability

Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal

Text description provided by architect.

Winner Project of a competition organized by the public company PCTCAN, for two office buildings in the "Scientific and Technological Park of Cantabria".

The buildings conform two regular prisms, where color and contrast play a predominant role.

Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal

The formal image of the buildings is based on sustainability and energy savings criteria, but also on its functionality, adopting simple technical solutions in order not to increase the construction costs, and prioritizing functional aspects of modularity and flexibility.

The differential treatment of their façades, adapted to each orientation, seeks to achieve an optimal use of solar energy.

Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal

Plants, completely open, can be divided into several offices with separate entrances, allowing to accommodate different companies and giving great flexibility.

The structure is solved with a central concrete core (with the vertical communications, toilets, ducts and piping), and a perimeter of small steel columns integrated in the façade, in order to achieve a completely open floor without intermediate columns.

The buildings rise on a half-buried stone plinth, surrounded by curved landscaped slopes that give contrast to the building rigid geometry. Over this base, the access floor, glazed and set back from the rest of plants, is located. And above all, the colorful office prism that seems to levitate in the plot.

Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal

The architectural language integrates environmental solutions. The main volume, that locates four office plants, is solved with a ventilated façade of thermosetting resins panels. Openings are treated in each façade differently depending on their orientation.

In the East and West façades horizontal windows are protected by vertical louvers made with the same façade panels, integrating them into its modulation and colorful.

This solution gives a very different aspect to the façade depending on the angle from which you observe it, from a totally blind façade, to a complete open one.

Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal

Instead the North and South façades open to the landscape through large curtain walls. On the South side, the façade is protected from solar radiation by large aluminum louvers.

In both façades, maintenance catwalks have been integrated in the design, avoiding the installation of gondolas.

Up to date only one of the buildings it has been built, being the construction of the second planned in 2017. Hasta la fecha sólo se ha construido uno de los edificios, estando prevista la construcción del segundo en 2017.

Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
© Imagen Subliminal


Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
Detalle
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
Elevaciones


Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
Corte
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
Axonométrica


Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
Planta de Sitio
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
Planta 1
Scientific And Technological Park of Cantabria
Planta 2