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SPANISH – PORTUGUESE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER (CIALE)
Firm
Type
YEAR
2008
SIZE
500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
This laboratory is meant for research and
experimentation in farming and plant maintenance. It has the infrastructure
required to conduct research related to agricultural activities in the field of
physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of plants, fungus and
microorganisms.
The site is part of a bigger area of
environmental interest close to the river Tormes. We therefore propose an
intervention in which the architecture is not imposed but rather becomes part
of the territory. We intend to rethink the existing terrain into a new
transformed landscape and discover a hidden morphology in the site through the
activation of the current topography. Working on it emerged a series of folds
and movements that have defined a landscape in which is recognized the former
one.
The new building emerge in the landscape
distancing itself from a housing environment without a clear order, with
different shapes and indiscriminate occupation.
The topographic redevelopment of the site
lead to two levels: in the upper, with the entrance from the street, the
building is hidden in the landscape, while the lower level opens onto the
river, separating from the ground by piles that isolate the construction of
possible floods.
The educational program is located in a
representative volume that occupies the upper level of the access.
The research program and support
facilities occupy an elongated half-buried volume that gives access to
different nuanced services through an interior street. The laboratories are
situated in four cubes on piles, guiding their views to the river and being
separated in such a way to allow a sequenced view to the river bank from the
common area.
The relationship between the volumes of
the laboratories and the one containing the educational program set up a wide
compositional sequence allied to the cadence of the vegetation and topography
of the bank, which helps the building to integrate itself into the landscape. The highest level of the plot has direct access to the
didactic and administrative program, and from the lower it is possible to enter
the building through the laboratory areas. Their support zones are virtually
buried by ensuring appropriate insulation.
In the closest area to the river there are a number of greenhouses connected by
a path outside, inside them is particularly suitable the research related to
the agrobiotechnology.
The research area is reached after
crossing the pronounced cut of the slab that supports the roof garden, a ramp guides
you to the hall and the interior street that goes across and articulate the
whole.
Through a glass wall
protected by the eaves of the roof garden, light flows in this elongated and
complex space that, despite undergoing the strictness demanded by the
functional program, is energized with ramps and galleries that give way
to the platforms of the different laboratory
volumes, the exit zone or the teaching building; this varied sequence receives
more interest having as a background reference the dense layer of trees and
river water.
The most complex
operation performed is on the ground, and special attention has been taken in
order to ensure that once realized it will barely be perceived.
The architecture is clear
and easily understandable, seeks a flexible and versatile scheme, able to solve
the appearance of new programs that will necessarily be incorporated into the
research complex.
One of the aims of the proposal is to get
permeability and transparency between building and landscape, in order to obtain
this, a light multilayer facade system is used, resulting in a variable density
filter that meets both the heat and sunlight needs as well as the necessary
privacy.
The construction was entrusted to systems that
simplified the complexity of the building and eased the execution
phase. The building is separated from the ground and supported on piles,
the materiality of the structure is revealed throughout the entire building,
establishing a heavy and steady world. On the contrary the facade systems are light,
dry mounted to exhibit their temporary and removable character.
A gallery of accessible
facilities under the slabs runs the building all the way long. This
infrastructure can solve the maintenance and further introduction of new
services and technology. This solution avoids ceilings that would hide the structure and
blur the proposal.
The roof gardens of the building take part of this privileged landscape with a
proven ecological system, using seasonal flowering, hardy species and drip
irrigation with low consumption and maintenance. We aimed for a bio
climatic architecture and land-related that would passively achieve favorable
environmental conditions.
experimentation in farming and plant maintenance. It has the infrastructure
required to conduct research related to agricultural activities in the field of
physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of plants, fungus and
microorganisms.
The site is part of a bigger area of
environmental interest close to the river Tormes. We therefore propose an
intervention in which the architecture is not imposed but rather becomes part
of the territory. We intend to rethink the existing terrain into a new
transformed landscape and discover a hidden morphology in the site through the
activation of the current topography. Working on it emerged a series of folds
and movements that have defined a landscape in which is recognized the former
one.
The new building emerge in the landscape
distancing itself from a housing environment without a clear order, with
different shapes and indiscriminate occupation.
The topographic redevelopment of the site
lead to two levels: in the upper, with the entrance from the street, the
building is hidden in the landscape, while the lower level opens onto the
river, separating from the ground by piles that isolate the construction of
possible floods.
The educational program is located in a
representative volume that occupies the upper level of the access.
The research program and support
facilities occupy an elongated half-buried volume that gives access to
different nuanced services through an interior street. The laboratories are
situated in four cubes on piles, guiding their views to the river and being
separated in such a way to allow a sequenced view to the river bank from the
common area.
The relationship between the volumes of
the laboratories and the one containing the educational program set up a wide
compositional sequence allied to the cadence of the vegetation and topography
of the bank, which helps the building to integrate itself into the landscape. The highest level of the plot has direct access to the
didactic and administrative program, and from the lower it is possible to enter
the building through the laboratory areas. Their support zones are virtually
buried by ensuring appropriate insulation.
In the closest area to the river there are a number of greenhouses connected by
a path outside, inside them is particularly suitable the research related to
the agrobiotechnology.
The research area is reached after
crossing the pronounced cut of the slab that supports the roof garden, a ramp guides
you to the hall and the interior street that goes across and articulate the
whole.
Through a glass wall
protected by the eaves of the roof garden, light flows in this elongated and
complex space that, despite undergoing the strictness demanded by the
functional program, is energized with ramps and galleries that give way
to the platforms of the different laboratory
volumes, the exit zone or the teaching building; this varied sequence receives
more interest having as a background reference the dense layer of trees and
river water.
The most complex
operation performed is on the ground, and special attention has been taken in
order to ensure that once realized it will barely be perceived.
The architecture is clear
and easily understandable, seeks a flexible and versatile scheme, able to solve
the appearance of new programs that will necessarily be incorporated into the
research complex.
One of the aims of the proposal is to get
permeability and transparency between building and landscape, in order to obtain
this, a light multilayer facade system is used, resulting in a variable density
filter that meets both the heat and sunlight needs as well as the necessary
privacy.
The construction was entrusted to systems that
simplified the complexity of the building and eased the execution
phase. The building is separated from the ground and supported on piles,
the materiality of the structure is revealed throughout the entire building,
establishing a heavy and steady world. On the contrary the facade systems are light,
dry mounted to exhibit their temporary and removable character.
A gallery of accessible
facilities under the slabs runs the building all the way long. This
infrastructure can solve the maintenance and further introduction of new
services and technology. This solution avoids ceilings that would hide the structure and
blur the proposal.
The roof gardens of the building take part of this privileged landscape with a
proven ecological system, using seasonal flowering, hardy species and drip
irrigation with low consumption and maintenance. We aimed for a bio
climatic architecture and land-related that would passively achieve favorable
environmental conditions.
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