Winner - Industrial Facility
Santo Tirso, Portugal
Architect Agency: Multiprojectus
Metal Builder: O Feliz
Product Solutions used: GEODE façade and SOLEAL windows.
Photographer: Foto Engenho
“It has been decided to award the prize to this project because of the innovation of the building, clean and clear, with undeniable simplicity." Jury comments
The building, which houses the production of aeronautical components, is made up of two autonomous blocks, of equal height. The first is made up of a large industrial warehouse, while the second block, with three floors, is the social and administrative area. The skin of the main elevation is made up of a prefabricated concrete panel that adapts and homogenises the whole of the parts.
A series of formally ordered sheets provide roundness to the project. This dynamism is broken by the play of solids and voids projected, also creating an enormous flexibility and variety of lights that penetrate the building. The aluminium curtain wall helps to formalise the reticular rhythm of the facade. Once inside, the lobby designed at triple height stands out with its suspended staircase that connects the different floors, exploring the harmony between rhythm, light, and the play of scales within the space.
The permeability that is experienced between the exterior and the interior is produced by the GEODE curtain wall GEODE curtain wall, designed on the basis of the same reticulated reticular pattern that forms the concrete façade.
Special Mention - Offices DFG
Pavestone, Portugal
Architect: Óscar López Alba (OLAestudio)
Metal Builder: Aluminios Sobral
Product Solutions used: SOLEAL doors and UNNO THERMIC windows
Photographer: Imagen Subliminal
“It has been decided to award a special mention to this project for the choise of using stone as a raw material, as it is a company that is dedicated to it. It higlights the perfect connection between the materials, the design of the building and the company's objective" Jury comments
The project is conceived as a simple building, without additional rhetoric, with an optimized constructive system in which, within the enclosure, the offices, and the showroom are housed. This container of glass, polycarbonate, and metal, designed to continue growing and adapting to new uses, focuses on generating a clear, white atmosphere flooded with light.
The building provides the framework and support for the granite while the interior spaces have been covered in different types of stone and finishes, the facade being the one that bears the greatest load. The direct north-south orientation is key to its design and highlights the platinum blue granite lattices that overlap the container and are extended to their maximum dimension, like the one that has been placed to the west. The block opens directly to the north, closing to the east. To the south, the great granite fabric stands out, made of equal pieces, with an openwork that allows light to filter through, whilst avoiding direct sunlight. In short, the building is a showroom in itself.
To build in an industrial estate is to build without references or interferences. The building has a flat surface, strong sunlight and an office-showroom programme.
SOLEAL access doors are ideal for areas with a continuous passage with such as a showroom with these characteristics.
