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First Sunset in the Pacific
First Sunset in the Pacific
Calle de Núñez de Balboa, Madrid, Spain
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First Sunset in the Pacific
Calle de Núñez de Balboa, Madrid, Spain
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2017
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
The project consists in the renovation of an existing obsolete two-storey car park.
Three fundamental goals were pursued: making the parking more attractive to potential clients, reducing maintenance costs and minimizing impact on the car park operation. The strategy to gather all objectives together was based on the use of light as the essential design element and the fundamental construction material: thanks to its own non-material nature, it guarantees the parking to look changeless throughout the years and allows to unveil the existing building instead of covering it.
The entry, consisting of a tunnel of repetitive white light arches over a neutral black wall, invites the user to get into a completely unknown interior. Halfway, it expands and divides, providing access to a total of 37 places in two levels. Right after the user reaches the parking floor, which surrounding walls, devoid of their old tile cladding and exposing their old brick materiality, are lighted half-orange half-blue in order to draw a clear horizon line. This blue lighting, combined with the use of a same color epoxy coating, floods both floors with the intense color of the Pacific.
Besides being a cost effective construction design (the necessary lighting system is used as a decorative element), it also reduces maintenance costs, since finishes don’t get altered over time.
Finally, the project has meant an economic success. Not only because the garage has become more popular among potential users, increasing direct revenues, but also due to a value added effect: the space has turned attractive in itself (not just as a garage), which allows to rent one of the levels (the other remains for subscribed users) as an event space during night hours, when transient parking reduces. Considering both incoming sources, total facility revenues have increased by 50% compared to before renovation.
Three fundamental goals were pursued: making the parking more attractive to potential clients, reducing maintenance costs and minimizing impact on the car park operation. The strategy to gather all objectives together was based on the use of light as the essential design element and the fundamental construction material: thanks to its own non-material nature, it guarantees the parking to look changeless throughout the years and allows to unveil the existing building instead of covering it.
The entry, consisting of a tunnel of repetitive white light arches over a neutral black wall, invites the user to get into a completely unknown interior. Halfway, it expands and divides, providing access to a total of 37 places in two levels. Right after the user reaches the parking floor, which surrounding walls, devoid of their old tile cladding and exposing their old brick materiality, are lighted half-orange half-blue in order to draw a clear horizon line. This blue lighting, combined with the use of a same color epoxy coating, floods both floors with the intense color of the Pacific.
Besides being a cost effective construction design (the necessary lighting system is used as a decorative element), it also reduces maintenance costs, since finishes don’t get altered over time.
Finally, the project has meant an economic success. Not only because the garage has become more popular among potential users, increasing direct revenues, but also due to a value added effect: the space has turned attractive in itself (not just as a garage), which allows to rent one of the levels (the other remains for subscribed users) as an event space during night hours, when transient parking reduces. Considering both incoming sources, total facility revenues have increased by 50% compared to before renovation.
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