Disa Headquarters Competition - First Prize

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Disa Headquarters Competition - First Prize

Firm

Estudio Natto

Type

Commercial › Office
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant
Government + Health ›
Landscape + Planning › Public Park

SIZE

1,000,000 +

FIRST PRIZE
PROJECT
NARRATIVE
The project for the new headquarters building of Disa
Group seeks to achieve the typical headquarters prominence and become a leading
further into architectural landmark for the city in an environment dominated by
high-rise buildings (34 storey towers of Santa
Cruz, 28-story courthouse future)
The floor of the tower, as every square, is perceived
in an apparent form by its four corners. The project idea is to materialize
these four corners in its full height, but releasing the centre with a large
indoor atrium. Making this interior hollow to the volume of the tower, the
spare construction plot can be transferred to the socket and linear body. This
inner atrium, in turn, acts as a bioclimatic regulator for the building.
In the socket the operation performed is similar than
to the tower but horizontally, achieving maximum apparent volume and performing
an emptying socket centre, creating an internal gallery. By relating this
gallery with the inner atrium of the tower we achieve a continuous space that
allows pedestrian transition between different areas of the perimeter intervention,
connecting spaces and cultural and commercial buildings. Also, the tower
atrium, allows the communication between the Transport Interchange, the educational
plot and the new Courthouse through the tower.
Regarding the proposed uses, the tower is intended
entirely to office use, except small uses related to restoration inside the
square. A shopping arcade is raised for the socket. The rest of the floor area
to materialize in the linear body on the socket will be assigned exclusively to
office use to market, since this option allows you to link these plants with
plants of the tower situated at the same level and also intended for marketing.
The design of the tower as it has been conceived
identifies with the group DISA, different companies of several sizes that all
together form a very powerful whole, has a lot to do with our insular
idiosyncrasy, interrelated islands, and that in turn has been the site of
passage of many peoples, thereby enriching.
All these values reflected in DISA are expressed in the
building design, manifesting more noticeable with the finish of the facade: a
coating of aluminium perforated metal panel lacquered white, which in turn has
folds, giving it rigidity, but mostly to give it in external perception of
greater plasticity, which in contrast to the way that gives the panel
microperforation, gives the building a unique urban highlights among
surrounding buildings. This metal skin that filters the light outside to inside
workspace, reduces the thermal load and allows the view from the inside.
The new public space that is created is qualified with
meeting places and stay of citizens, with bleachers-steps before the main
entrance to the courthouse, a cafe on the lower level with areas of shade and
sun, large landscaped areas, arcade area and a lower level that serves the new
shopping mall. Under the square, is provided with 507 public parking spaces, to
serve the new uses that are implanted into the environment. The finish on the
pavement of the square emphasise the most important pedestrian flow at city
level and that relates to the different public spaces in the area.

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Disa Headquarters Competition - First Prize

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