Comisaría Lugo / Mestura Arquitectes

Posted on septiembre 26, 2012 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Mestura Arquitectes
Location: Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Design Team: Humbert Costas, Manuel Gómez, Jaime Blanco, Carlos Durán, Josep M. Estapè
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 5,293.83 sqm
Photographs: Andrés Fraga

The volumetry of this building is defined by a U-shaped structure around a courtyard. This courtyard articulates and prioritizes different uses, providing lighting inside the main routes.

This implementation allows to differentiate the location of the offices of the local police and civil protection wich requires a completely separate operation. This is possible thanks to a clear segmentation of the ground and first floors of circulations both indoors and volumetric configuration of the building, giving an image capable of conferring identity to each of the services and strengthening its presence in the two main facades shown from the access.

The general appearance is that of a compact building with controlled openings in the exterior walls and airy interiors in protected facades facing the courtyard and in the areas of access and citizen services. The position of the three vertical communication cores, it means generating a mass fragmentation pursued built to accommodate the scale of the building to the parcel.

Comisaría Lugo / Mestura Arquitectes originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 26 Sep 2012.

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City Police Headquarters in Lleida / Mestura Arquitectes

Posted on septiembre 23, 2012 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Mestura Arquitectes
Location: Lleida, Spain
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Jordi Clariana, David Capellas, Francesco Soppelsa

Project Area: 5,293.93 sqm
Budget: € 8,989,212.35
Promotor: Edificio PGU Lleida S.A.

The volumetric proposal responds to the urban needs through a single body U-shaped around a courtyard that opens onto the landscaped areas protected from the street Salmeron. The building is positioned according to the road alignments Round the Old Cathedral and Pallars street, in order to free up space in the area of the main access from the junction Prat de la Riba – Salmeron. There is here a big protected green area that represents a counterpoint to the building and simultaneously acts as a visual reference from the inner courtyard. This court articulates and prioritizes the various uses within the center and at the same time filled with light all the rooms.

The general appearance is that of a compact body with a stone treatment of the exterior walls, high above the ground by a concrete base, but also light and transparent where it is necessary to open, outdoor areas of access and attention span citizens, as well as the facades that open into the courtyard.

City Police Headquarters in Lleida / Mestura Arquitectes originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 23 Sep 2012.

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City Police Headquarters in Lleida / Mestura Arquitectes

Posted on septiembre 23, 2012 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Mestura Arquitectes
Location: Lleida, Spain
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Jordi Clariana, David Capellas, Francesco Soppelsa

Project Area: 5,293.93 sqm
Budget: € 8,989,212.35
Promotor: Edificio PGU Lleida S.A.

City Police Headquarters in Lleida / Mestura Arquitectes originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 23 Sep 2012.

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Ceip Martinet / Mestura Arquitectes

Posted on septiembre 20, 2012 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Mestura Arquitectes
Location: Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Design Team: Humbert Costas, Manuel Gómez, Jaime Blanco, Carlos Durán, Josep M. Estapè
Project Year: 2007
Project Area: 3,448.71 sqm
Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute

On a lot of small size, as the standard for this type of center, one floor is organized in a “U” around the kindergarten playground, releasing the rest of the site for the primary playground.

In a first volume of ground floor, in continuity with the primary yard, lie the nursery and primary hallways and all support units of the school.

The classrooms are designed as a three-storey volume in which children’s classrooms, oriented south, have direct contact with its own patio with a porch and elementary classrooms located in first and second floor, which is accessed by a corridor oriented south, north facing light comes from.

A ceramic lattice acts as protection for passive solar south facing corridors giving access to primary classrooms. The faces of these parts most exposed to the sun-glazed surface have 2 ranges of 3 different colors each. The exposed faces west orientation combine a range of 3 color green “spring”, while those exposed in the east combine a range of 3 earthy colors “fall.”

The lattice functions at various scales, from the Ronda de Dalt the main facade of the school is very visible, and becomes a big announcement that is integrated into the landscape of large containers nearby industrial area, while underscoring the middle distance is three-dimensional geometry of the parts. From the inside is a double façade that controls the light and creates a play of light and shadow that changes over time.

Ceip Martinet / Mestura Arquitectes originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 20 Sep 2012.

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Mare de Déu de Montserrat / Mestura Arquitectes

Posted on septiembre 17, 2012 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Mestura Arquitectes
Location: Castellví de Rosanes, Barcelona, Spain
Design Team: Humbert Costas, Manuel Gómez, Jaime Blanco, Carlos Durán, Josep M. Estapè
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute

Project Area: 2187.83 sqm
Collaborators: David Capellas, Manuel Comas, Boma, Miquel Angel Sala, Gerc Inartur

The building is characterized by a clear implementation geometrically subject to and conditioned by the existing sports equipment, positioned in the central part of the performance. The site has distant visual domains and ample natural lighting.

The development of the building is raised on the ground floor, with the main north-south axis what guides the grouping of three bodies in a figure edificatory “U” between them and thus framing the sports hall. The whole volume longest school offers education primarily spaces for the primary cycle, north closes with a space area of south-up and develop early childhood education spaces and collective uses: dining room, library, etc …

The interrelationship between the various teaching areas and outdoor spaces, patios and sports center, form the main matrix for compositional layout of the proposal.

For the realization of the building have been considered building systems, materials and compositional criteria consistent with optimizing environmental factors serving criteria durability, low environmental impact and adaptation to the environment.

Mare de Déu de Montserrat / Mestura Arquitectes originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 17 Sep 2012.

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Mare de Déu de Montserrat / Mestura Arquitectes

Posted on septiembre 17, 2012 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Project Area: 2187.83 sqm
Collaborators: David Capellas, Manuel Comas, Boma, Miquel Angel Sala, Gerc Inartur

The interrelationship between the various teaching areas and outdoor spaces, patios and sports center, form the main matrix for compositional layout of the proposal.

Mare de Déu de Montserrat / Mestura Arquitectes originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 17 Sep 2012.

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Parque de Bombers in Gavà / Mestura Arquitectes

Posted on septiembre 14, 2012 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Mestura Arquitectes
Location: Gavá, Barcelona, Spain
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute

Project Area: 1619.6 sqm
Collaborators: Aumedes Dap, Xavier Aumedes, Luis Alfredo Rodríguez Tirado, Manuel Comas i Olivella, Josep M. Oller

The parcel to the project which puts the new fire station is immersed in the “New Green Ensanche Gavá” characterized by a growth model that will be respectful of the existing landscape setting and its environmental value.

Located in the lower part of Central Park and almost Caçagats contact with the New Calamot Park, this lot is part of the “line” connection between the biological and landscape agroforestry space Garraf and Llobregat Delta.

The project is generated from the interplay of four main parameters:

- The place

- The functional program

- Accessibility of vehicles

- The orientation of the building

Joint reflection of these four parameters, there are two main invariants, on the one hand the need for convenient access from the road, and on the other hand, the attempt to integrate as far as possible, a building of its kind a natural place virtually untouched.

In this sense it has been suggested that the building itself that generates the pseudo-urban contact with the path, trying to reduce the presence of the great “platform hard” (space for practices / operations) that accompanies this type of building.

If we add to this premise that the land is substantially rectangular shape with two boundaries facing the mountain and the other two down the road, it is a configuration edificatoria plan as “L”, which accompanies the more urban part of the plot, generating a large interior courtyard facing south – west.

Parque de Bombers in Gavà / Mestura Arquitectes originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 14 Sep 2012.

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Car Vela / Mestura Arquitectes

Posted on septiembre 11, 2012 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Mestura Arquitectes
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Architects In Charge: Humbert Costas, Manuel Gómez, Jaime Blanco, Carlos Durán, Josep M. Estapè
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute

Project Area: 2,702.89 sqm
Measurements And Budget Execution Division: AT3, Josep M. Oller y Jordi Valls, aparejadores
Calculation Facility: GRUPO JG
Calculation Of Structures: BOMA, Miquel Angel Sala, arquitecto

The objective of this intervention is to include under the large pergola Photovoltaic in the Forum Park of Barcelona, a program of the International Center for High Performance Sailing.

The uniqueness of the spaces to be treated, starting considerations requires both the environment and the possible actions in outer space, as the configuration of existing architectural elements, which determine many of the decisions of the project. We therefore propose a treatment in the facades that seek not to contrast with the gigantic scale of the element. The south facade is delayed until the first bay of the current structure to avoid contact of the new facilities with existing structural elements, while on the north side openings are covered with a curtain overlapping continuous acts wooden slats as a unitary element and neutral.

In the two bays of the south wall, are arranged various activities which are arranged, let light into the interior space of the complex while generating lift terraces allowing views of the sea over the seawalls of the spring.

The Institutional access to the center, is produced under the great porch west bridge in the entrance of the enclosure. A central staircase serve as a center of relationships and communication among users of all levels. Another entrance in the est part of the groundfloor, communicates with a large porch, with the esplanade of the dock.

The floor structure is based on the existing foundation beams from felling as a hindrance or struts reinforced concrete pile caps are based on the existing piles. These piles have a depth of over 30 meters because it is land reclaimed from the sea. The second floor is “hanging” of the existing structure, so that the middle floor wins transparency due to the absence of pillars.