Sputnik Youth Center

Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez

SPUTNIK YOUTH CENTER

OBO Estudi

ARCHITECTS
OBO Estudi

AREA
5350 ft²

YEAR
2020

CATEGORY
Youth Center, Sustainability

PHOTOGRAPHER
Sara Adroer Martínez

MANUFACTURERS
Isopan

LOCATION
Montornès Del Vallès, Spain

LEAD ARCHITECT
Joan Artés Perez

Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez
Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez
Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez

The town hall of Montornès del Vallès proposes the creation of a youth centre to house and direct the activities for young people of the municipality.

Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez
Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez

To this end, a public land is taken to build a rectangular building with a landscaped environment to be conquered and enjoyed by the users of the centre.

Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez
Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez

The access is from the ground floor, where the set of staff offices and meeting spaces are located, as well as a bar willing to host public activities, and oriented towards the exterior garden.

Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez
Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez

The first floor, however, houses three large spaces and a bathroom to hold a wide variety of activities. On this floor, a large terrace opens allowing the combination of indoor and outdoor activities.

The building is erected using a constructive system typical of the industries in the area. Above a concrete slab there is a modular metal structure, with composite slabs and prefabricated panels for the façade.

Sputnik Youth Center
Gif 01
Sputnik Youth Center
Gif 01

The projectproposes a completely dry construction and mostly executed from a workshop, assembling the modules in situ and only connecting the facilities.

There are no superfluous coatings in the building, leaving the constructive elements seen. On the long façades, there’s a slatted wood cladding as a solar protection and a torsion mesh is placed on the shorter sides where a newly planted ivy will grow.

The building assumes the variability of uses of its interior and proposes a low thermal inertia system capable of bearing considerable loads during summer and low-use periods during winter.

For this reason, a high-tightness and low-transmittance envelope is projected, with good solar protection and high-efficiency air exchanger.

Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez
Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez

A photovoltaic capture system is also available to hold the energy consumption as well as a monitoring of all of the rooms with different CO2 detectors that optimise air renovations or a light control depending on the solar incidence of each space.

Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez
Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez

All of this, controlled by a BMS system and connected to the provincial monitoring network, contribute to the achievement of the 5 Green Building Council Green Leaves Greens.

Sputnik Youth Center
© Sara Adroer Martínez


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Sputnik Youth Center
Temperature Graphic 01
Sputnik Youth Center
Temperature Graphic 02


Sputnik Youth Center
1st Floor Plan
Sputnik Youth Center
2nd Floor Plan
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Roof Plan
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