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Ecuador

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NOVOPAN

Ecuador

Firm

Diez+Muller

Type

Commercial › Office

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET

$1M - 5M

Context:
Novopan is the largest melamine board industry in the country and the region. The assignment arose from the need to develop a project for new administrative spaces and services for its recently expanded plant. The client had designated an old car park on the site of the existing industrial plant for the project in question. A flat plot of land, with a small area, which implied the development of a building of at least 5 floors to accommodate the extensive programme required. On arriving at the site, we identified an opportunity when we found an elongated, irregularly shaped slope next to the existing factory, which would allow us to develop the same project on only 2 floors. First, by attaching the new project to the factory, a better relationship and control over the operation is achieved, and more importantly, the possibility to connect and bring the workforce closer to the administrative side. Secondly, by implanting the building on the slope, we managed to make the new offices the face of the company to the city, reducing the strong presence of the industrial sheds and generating a new, more human and friendly scale. And finally, we took advantage of the ‘waste’ spaces between the office building and the factory to insert support and service areas.

The Intervention:
The main building sits on the curvilinear slope, adapting to its natural shape and generating a reference to the sinuosity of the adjoining motorway. The office floors are placed on the terrain in a ‘snake shape’, achieving a horizontal operation that allows and encourages easy communication and proximity between the different divisions of the company. This idea is reinforced by a central atrium, which integrates the two floors and is where there is the greatest physical and visual communication in the building. Conceived not only as the heart of the project, but also where the social activities of the organisation take place (workshops, presentations, coworking and social events) and above all motivating users to connect, meet and share.

Structure and Materiality:
The project, seeks an orderly, flexible and clear structural and constructive logic. The ground plan has only two equidistant axes that define and compose the spatial proposal. The structure is made up of post-tensioned slabs, beams and cantilevers that generate lightness, dynamism and sensuality to the space. Inside, the concrete skeleton is exposed, defining the space without make-up or additions and being complemented only with details and furniture made on the same floor.

Sustainability:

First, the elongated slope allows us to have a narrow and shallow building, maximising natural lighting and ventilation and considerably reducing energy consumption needs. The implemented system of cantilevered concrete slabs and vertical melamine slats in the form of ‘sunbreaks’ protect the spaces from the intense afternoon sun. The double-height atrium functions as a chimney effect, ventilating the natural incoming air vertically through openings in the upper skylights, which also illuminate the central space.

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