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KNEM Offices  

KNEM Offices

Barcelona, Spain

Popular Winner, 2024 A+Awards, Commercial - Office - Mid Rise (5 - 15 Floors)
Project of the Day on Oct 22, 2024
Project Featured on Oct 22, 2024
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KNEM Offices

Barcelona, Spain

Popular Winner, 2024 A+Awards, Commercial - Office - Mid Rise (5 - 15 Floors)
Project of the Day on Oct 22, 2024
Project Featured on Oct 22, 2024
Type
Commercial › Office
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
The project is located in the Poble Nou neighborhood of Barcelona, on a plot that was part of the former jute spinning mill of the Hermanos Godó , popularly known as "El Cànem". The façade of the existing building that  faces Doctor Trueta Street, included in the Architectural Heritage Protection Plan, has been preserved.

The program is distributed in three volumes within the plot: two blocks that face each of the streets and a block in the central area that joins them through a large landscaped patio. Despite this organization into three distinct entities, it seemed appropriate to create a certain formal unity that would combine tradition and innovation while highlighting the industrial past of Poble Nou and the legacy of the "El Cànem" factory. Thus, a continuous plinth of masonry runs along the perimeter of the entire complex, unifying the three volumes in a single programmatic and formal body. Two glass boxes are supported and raised  on this plinth, screened with an aluminum lattice that evokes the weaving of jute fibers.This duality between the industrial past and the contemporary vocation of the new building is materialized in the formal contrast between the plinth and the raised boxes.

Just as the blocks facing the street offer large, diaphanous and flexible office spaces thanks to the strategic location of the vertical cores and the post-tensioned concrete structure, the central block is configured as an addition of smaller duplex-type offices open to the central passageway, reminiscent of the old industrial workshops that dotted the urban fabric of Poble Nou.

Energy certificates: Leed Gold
Client: Diagonal 477 SLU
b720 Team: Fermín Vázquez, Peco Mulet, Eduardo Varas, Pablo Garrido, Cristina Gassó, Elisabet Usón, Maialen Andiarena, Ruxandra Avramescu
Construction: Copcisa SA
Collaborators: BIS Structures (Structural Engineers), Deerns (MEP), Mirla (Landscape)
Photographer: Adrià Goula

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