Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER REFURBISHMENT IN NOALLO DE ABAIXO

Muiños Otero López Arquitectura

LOCATION
Province Of Ourense, Spain

CATEGORY
Community Center

AREA
75 m²

YEAR
2016

PROMOTER
Concello de Castrelo de Miño

LIGHTING
Lledó

MANUFACTURERS
Finsa, Klein, Lledò, Saint-Gobain

BUILDER
ATCON S.L.

PROJECT MANAGER
Víctor Lorenzo Salgado

FAÇADE
FINSA

MILWORK
Meijón e Hijos

BUDGET
49,997.00 €

ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS
Suarez Electrical Installations

METALLIC CONSTRUCTIONS
CUESME

PREVIOUS STAGE

The proposed action aims to recover the old unitary school as a neighborhood center of Noallo de Abaixo.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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When the previous building is in a situation of total ruin, with the structure about to collapse, the entire project is reformulated.

On the ground floor a single polyvalent diaphanous room is organized, intended for various activities (lectures, workshops, meetings, meals, courses, etc).

In addition to the main room, an area of trade and a toilet adapted to the disabled is defined. This interior area is complemented by the walkable roof as a garden.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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For access to the ground floor an exonartex is generated, partially covered, but open.

It incorporates a waiting bench taking advantage of a stretch of the retaining wall, like a liquidambar that crosses the building through a roof skylight.

INTERVENTION

The intervention is proposed as an attempt to reappropriation of the public space, opening the views of the building from the upper part of the valley, as well as generating a public plaza-garden on the roof.

The central idea of ​​the project is to give prominence to the church of Noallo de Abaixo, using as a strategy to create a benchmark at the municipal level, a building-plaza that articulates the environment of the place and function as a meeting node and social capacitor.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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With the re-dimensioning of the building to be reformed, it is fundamentally that the church regains its leading role in the square, recovering the preponderance that it had originally in the duel of scales.

With regard to the garden cover, a flexible and polyvalent space is sought that, as a spontaneous and alternative occupation of the street, becomes a new option for the different groups, such as young people, women, children, readers, etc.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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It is intended to be a porous social container, open, recognizable by the whole community and inviting its entry as a catalyst for different cultural activities.

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

Recovering the memory and character of the previously existing building was the starting point of the intervention. The balance between traditional materials and the use of current construction systems was pursued, simplifying the number of constructive solutions to achieve a low cost intervention.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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From the structural envelope executed, the interior of the neighborhood center was minimally conditioned with little complex and economical solutions.

STRUCTURE

The dimensions defined by the retaining wall to the upper road, and the interaction with the houses and the church located in the middle of the square, define the geometry of the exterior walls and the broken roof slab.

In the same way, the opening looking for the views, the study of sunlight and other atmospheric agents condition the faceting and the opening of gaps.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Due to the minimal budget that the intervention had, all the structural elements are elements seen.

In addition to keeping the roof slab seen without any false ceiling, the retaining walls, and the slab, the shuttering panels themselves have been reused for the execution of joinery and for the paneling of the retaining wall as a vertical covering. For the trade and toilet area, the same type of board for the false ceiling is continued.

This constructive sincerity in terms of showing the supporting skeleton of the building made entirely of reinforced concrete, attempts to qualify with the use of wood for the execution of the facade carpentry and with the use of formwork panels as a paneling in the concrete wall of greater dimension.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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THE LIGHT

The basic premise in the design of lighting is the use of low-energy luminaires, such as LED luminaires in indirect lighting, for emergency lighting and for exterior lighting and fluorescent lighting in interior direct lighting elements.

Generating different scenes, accentuating indirect lighting or enhancing direct lighting, allows users to adapt the type of lighting to the activity that is being developed

MATERIALS

The respect for the original character of the building, clearly marks the choice of the palette of materials, reducing it to the minimum expression and seeking the balance between traditional materials and new materials.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Undressing the building of any superfluous covering is the starting point, to highlight the authenticity of the intervention.

In floors, the concrete slab will be maintained in all the rooms, applying a sealing and a varnishing of transparent epoxy resins matte as protection.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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For false ceilings, in addition to showing the slab of broken concrete, the formwork panels for the false ceiling in the service areas are reused.

The exterior carpentry is made with crossbeams and profiles of carpentry of ecological pine.

FURNITURE AND RE-USE.

To minimize costs in the execution of the work, the shuttering panels are reused in interior coverings and in the furniture designed for the purpose of performance. In the dividing wall with toilet and office a blackboard is placed.

For the washbasin and the bowl of trade, the natural iron sheet is chosen for its execution. The countertop of the office is executed with wooden sleepers.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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FINAL ASSESSMENT

Urbanization and connection to Noallo node. It is intended to open the building to the square, for which pre-existing closure walls are removed, opting for glass facade.

On the roof of the building, we choose the execution of a staircase that allows access to the garden square with views of the valley.

In addition to incorporating liquidambar tree in the entrance vestibule, in the plaza-cover, creeping rosemary, lavender, hypericum, cotoneaster horizontalis and grevilleas are introduced.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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This space for community relations is also endowed with a protection handrail as well as residence benches for the neighbors. To hide the evacuation of gases, the duct is covered with a skin of wooden sleepers, with the same execution system as the benches.

For the execution of the roof, it is decided to differentiate between the areas of stay, with a wooden sleeper flooring, of the non-passable areas, where you opt for landscaping, looking for the building to be diluted in the landscape.

Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
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Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Plan site
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Distribution plan
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Roof plan
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Implantation


Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Elevations
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Situation


Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Sections
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Isometric and Sketches
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Sections
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Isometric and Sketches


Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Distribution plan
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Roof plan
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Elevations
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Plan site


Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Situation
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Exterior Joinery System
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Implantation
Neighborhood Center Refurbishment in Noallo de Abaixo
Exterior Joinery System