The Data Centre program includes more than 6.000 m2 of processors distributed into 18 IT rooms as well as parking places, contingency offices, operation, coupling facilities, testing rooms, suppliers and workshops.
The building typology requires the highest technological functionality, prioritizing: flexibility, scalability and energy efficiency in the three floors of computer rooms as well as in the two technical floors for the facilities of cooling and electric ones.
The special location of the Technology Park, located in the middle of nature, invites to propose a performance based on the sensibility for the impact on nature, minimizing the excavation volume and the landmark.
Both formally and functionally, the main difficulty is to enclose a 100x43 meters rectangle in a triangular site, including six IT rooms (12x29m) per floor.
The offices area raises itself to create a garden-space in the ground floor that becomes the access to the Data Center. Located perpendicular to the technical area solves the main street needs.
Technically, the facilities design gets a Tier III level of security and an energy efficiency by a PUE that does not exceed 1.8.
The electric facilities project has been designed for 16MW total power and a security level of TIER IV (Uptime Institute). The implementation of the Data Centre will be developed in phases, with a IT initial capacity of 2.5 MW.
In terms of physical Layout and room's topology the Data Centre based on the structure: aisle cold - aisle hot.
The high density racks have liquid cooling systems in-row type.
Reconciling these two wills -maximum functionality and minimal environmental impact- is the essential challenge of the project. The application of criteria and good practices of sustainable design have allowed the project is LEED certified.
Arquitectos | Architects
Magdlena Ostornol
Fernando Rial
Elida Mosquera
Manuel Lópes Periquito
Gestión de Proyecto | Project Management
Enrique Bolón
Estructuras | Structures
Gustavo Melón
Nuno Souza
Iván Florencia
Instalaciones | Facilities
Oriol Passola
Marc Fandós
Dirección de Obra | Site Supervision
Tono Fernández
Magdalena Ostornol
Jonathan García
Oriol Passola
Marc Fandos
Gestión de Obra | Construction Management
Enrique Bolón
Gabriel Kososwski
Xavier Talló
Programación y geometría computacional | Programming and computational geometry
Carlos de la Barrera
Superficie | Area
25.000 m2
Fotografía | Photography
Edouard Decam http://stig-studio.net
Año | Completion
2011