Maritime Station in Gijon Port [Sea Highway]
“The boat passing by a transformation from inexorable weight to floating structure…I remember mi fear and my surprise in that moment…and has become in a recurring dream “
Richard Serra
Located in De La Osa Pier, in Gijón Port, The Musel, the building is an assignment of the Port Authority of Gijón that consists in the project of the new maritime station for the sea highway. The new station would give service to the future ferry routes between Gijón and Nantes (France)
The programme has two different areas, pre-boarding and boarding, as well as a large-scale parking, mainly for trucks. The building must be working in six months and we have to consider the option of building expansion in a near future.
Due to these conditions, the building is planned as a modular one, with steel structure and opening to the sea. The building is performed entirely in the factory and subsequently assembled on site in a few weeks. By this way, the execution work period gets shorter and there is an important optimization of the working time because of the uniform conditions the factory provides. This type of construction allows an extension of the building in a short time and in a fully compatible way.
The modules have 3,60 m. wide and 15 m. length maximum.
The roof structure of the modules is made with IPE-160 rolled steel profiles, and transversely, at intervals of 600 mm to 1200 mm approximately, galvanized steel sheet straps 20 mm thick are set out.
The façade is composed by sandwich-type panels, formed by two steel sheets lacquered in different colours, the interior and exterior sheets are 0.5 mm thick with a 60mm polyurethane insulate between them, that provides the enclosure a thermal insulate of 0,36W/m2ºK and an acoustic insulation of 28 dB.
The panels are fixed by a tongue-and-groove lapping, which avoids panels from swinging and allows make a hidden screwing to overlap the panels. They are mounted vertically in 900 mm wide modules screwed to the secondary steel structure
Internally, the enclosure is finished with a double 13mm plasterboard screwed to 46mm steel battels with an inner rockwool insulation 40mm thickness.