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FEDA Headquarters: Confederation of Employers of Albacete
FEDA Headquarters: Confederation of Employers of Albacete
Albacete, Spain
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FEDA Headquarters: Confederation of Employers of Albacete
Albacete, Spain
Project of the Day on Oct 01, 2015
Firm
Type
YEAR
2012
SIZE
500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
We have designed the
headquarters of the Confederation of Employers of Albacete from the idea of
‘diffuse limits’ and ‘blur’ architecture. Our intention was to cover the volume
of the building with a veil capable of blurring it and making it change. We
wanted the building to react to the variations of weather and the movement of
users with different levels of brightness and textures.
Looking at it from
outside to inside, the skin would feel 'fleshy', full of shades and thick. And
at the same time it would appear as a distant and undefined object, so that the
observer doesn't have a stable reference, and could not keep a static link to
the building and remember only an image. On the contrary the building would respond
to the user in movement generating different glances and changing perceptions.
In the opposite view,
this second skin had to be perceived as a space with constant shape and without
scale changes. Likely, the inner façade with the windows is the one able to
defragment the building because the windows are very large compared to the
human scale. This makes the user relate with the exterior skin, that has small
scale holes and polimeric texture, in a closer way. But, again this feeling is
distorted by the separation of the two layers. From inside, the perception of the façade system had to
“fluff up” the limits of the building.
The project is solved
between two poles: the strong and clear volume, compared to the delicate and blurring façade. The strength of
the simple volume is balanced by the volatile and delicate effect that the
façade system gives. All this creates a slight feeling of strangeness while
perceiving this diffuse landmark.
One of the most
significant parameters at the architectural level has been the concretion of
the program, its definition and characterization. And, in parallel, the
opportunity for FEDA to upgrade their organizational processes.
Together with the directors, workers and users we created a map of needs, and
we did a rearrangement and reorganization of internal work processes. All this,
permitted a spatial change: from a system of cubicles to a more open space
floor, where the horizontality among self-managed teams is more evident, and helped with the implementation of technological
informational and documentation systems.
This new organization
forced the project to solve two problems: first, the creation of a flexible and
reprogrammable floors, and, second the adaptation of the working atmosphere.
For the first problem we
proposed a reticular structure with few columns, allowing a redistribution of
the program according to the needs of the future; and second, a technical floor
and ceiling that carries all facilities. With all this we can leave floors
completely free for use.
And regarding the
second, FEDA required from the beginning that people who worked in the building
will enjoy a high level of comfort, and, on our part, we wanted to create a
'highly emotional' spaces to work. The solving of the problem became a challenge.
We tried to create a friendly relationship with the user. The small vegetation
organizes the access. Its materiality, temperature, resonance ... even the
opening speed of the automatic doors, make the user subtly feel that he has
entered into an attenuated area. And it’s interesting to note how people lower
their voices naturally when they enter the building. We could not exactly say
why, but it’s probably due to the lighting and its ability to dazzle, or the
sound absorption without echoes, or the proportions of the space, or more
probably, all this experiences combined.
The access space extends
from side to side of the floor between opposing facades. This is the first part
of 'interior void' that articulates the building. From this space you can access
all floors, and in it, information sites, exhibition and meeting places are
located.
We tried that this space
had a very controlled atmosphere. You can feel how the perception of something
heavy is inverted to the perception of lightweight. Where the lighting was
different and the sound controlled, where always exists indoor-outdoor
relationship. However the scale is not a person’s scale. We have tried to
introduce the contradictions of the blurring exterior facade into the core of
the building.
And finally, we have designed open work spaces with high thermal and acoustic
conditioning. We have built an extremely neutral area that invite users to
bring their objects. We want the workers build their workplaces in highly
emotional way. We believe that this will build a new landscape less anodyne and
more interesting and real. A transparent landscape whose reality becomes
evident to someone who enters the enclosure to get the collective support of
the organization.
This project works the
relationship between the person and the building through the materials and
conditioning, trying to improve the sensory and emotional perception of the
workspace by its workers, members and visitors. This is a way of re-humanizing
architecture and, as far as we’re concerned, this is an obligatory step to
rethinking workplaces.
headquarters of the Confederation of Employers of Albacete from the idea of
‘diffuse limits’ and ‘blur’ architecture. Our intention was to cover the volume
of the building with a veil capable of blurring it and making it change. We
wanted the building to react to the variations of weather and the movement of
users with different levels of brightness and textures.
Looking at it from
outside to inside, the skin would feel 'fleshy', full of shades and thick. And
at the same time it would appear as a distant and undefined object, so that the
observer doesn't have a stable reference, and could not keep a static link to
the building and remember only an image. On the contrary the building would respond
to the user in movement generating different glances and changing perceptions.
In the opposite view,
this second skin had to be perceived as a space with constant shape and without
scale changes. Likely, the inner façade with the windows is the one able to
defragment the building because the windows are very large compared to the
human scale. This makes the user relate with the exterior skin, that has small
scale holes and polimeric texture, in a closer way. But, again this feeling is
distorted by the separation of the two layers. From inside, the perception of the façade system had to
“fluff up” the limits of the building.
The project is solved
between two poles: the strong and clear volume, compared to the delicate and blurring façade. The strength of
the simple volume is balanced by the volatile and delicate effect that the
façade system gives. All this creates a slight feeling of strangeness while
perceiving this diffuse landmark.
One of the most
significant parameters at the architectural level has been the concretion of
the program, its definition and characterization. And, in parallel, the
opportunity for FEDA to upgrade their organizational processes.
Together with the directors, workers and users we created a map of needs, and
we did a rearrangement and reorganization of internal work processes. All this,
permitted a spatial change: from a system of cubicles to a more open space
floor, where the horizontality among self-managed teams is more evident, and helped with the implementation of technological
informational and documentation systems.
This new organization
forced the project to solve two problems: first, the creation of a flexible and
reprogrammable floors, and, second the adaptation of the working atmosphere.
For the first problem we
proposed a reticular structure with few columns, allowing a redistribution of
the program according to the needs of the future; and second, a technical floor
and ceiling that carries all facilities. With all this we can leave floors
completely free for use.
And regarding the
second, FEDA required from the beginning that people who worked in the building
will enjoy a high level of comfort, and, on our part, we wanted to create a
'highly emotional' spaces to work. The solving of the problem became a challenge.
We tried to create a friendly relationship with the user. The small vegetation
organizes the access. Its materiality, temperature, resonance ... even the
opening speed of the automatic doors, make the user subtly feel that he has
entered into an attenuated area. And it’s interesting to note how people lower
their voices naturally when they enter the building. We could not exactly say
why, but it’s probably due to the lighting and its ability to dazzle, or the
sound absorption without echoes, or the proportions of the space, or more
probably, all this experiences combined.
The access space extends
from side to side of the floor between opposing facades. This is the first part
of 'interior void' that articulates the building. From this space you can access
all floors, and in it, information sites, exhibition and meeting places are
located.
We tried that this space
had a very controlled atmosphere. You can feel how the perception of something
heavy is inverted to the perception of lightweight. Where the lighting was
different and the sound controlled, where always exists indoor-outdoor
relationship. However the scale is not a person’s scale. We have tried to
introduce the contradictions of the blurring exterior facade into the core of
the building.
And finally, we have designed open work spaces with high thermal and acoustic
conditioning. We have built an extremely neutral area that invite users to
bring their objects. We want the workers build their workplaces in highly
emotional way. We believe that this will build a new landscape less anodyne and
more interesting and real. A transparent landscape whose reality becomes
evident to someone who enters the enclosure to get the collective support of
the organization.
This project works the
relationship between the person and the building through the materials and
conditioning, trying to improve the sensory and emotional perception of the
workspace by its workers, members and visitors. This is a way of re-humanizing
architecture and, as far as we’re concerned, this is an obligatory step to
rethinking workplaces.
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