Unasur 機関本部庁舎 by Diego Guayasamin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award プラチナ賞 in 建築・建物・構造物デザイン Competition Category.
プラチナ建築· 2021
Unasur 機関本部庁舎
Client: Unasur
A' Design Award プラチナ賞 Winner in 建築 Category
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The Design
About Unasur 機関本部庁舎
ウナスールは、エクアドル・キト北部のミタ・デル・ムンド（赤道記念碑）に隣接して建つ機関本部庁舎である。プログラムの約75パーセントを地下に配置することで、建物のボリュームを近接する記念碑よりも低く抑えている。堅牢な鉄筋コンクリート製のコアが2つの大型鉄骨トラスを支え、支柱なしで56メートルのキャンチレバーを実現する居住可能な梁を形成している。素材にはコンクリート、鉄骨、敷地内の採石場から産出した石材、そして複層のダークガラスを用いている。雨水利用、通風（クロスベンチレーション）、自然採光によりエネルギー消費を削減。建物周囲のオープンスペースは公共に開かれている。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award プラチナ賞
Unasur 機関本部庁舎は、真に卓越し、エレガントで壮麗なデザインに授与される、きわめて権威ある評価である A' Design Award プラチナ賞の受賞作品です。プラチナ賞の受賞作品は、創造の驚異であり、知的創造性の限界を示す証であり、デザイナーの比類なきプロフェッショナリズムと天才性を示しています。これらのデザインは、時代の美学を定義し、社会の幸福に貢献し、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界を前進させる、最も名高い作品であることが期待されます。Unasur 機関本部庁舎は、超越的な卓越性の水準を示し、有益で価値ある特性によって、疑いなく世界をより良い場所にします。Unasur 機関本部庁舎は、欲求を呼び覚まし、インスピレーションを与え、胸を躍らせ、喜ばせ、大きな喜びを生み出す、A' Design Award プラチナ賞受賞作品です。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The building's spatiality, tectonics and program played a fundamental role. The architects have been the designers, the interior designers and the landscape architects. Starting by choosing rock from an on-site quarry to connect the Middle of the World Complex to the project, as a continuous urban space. The use of double insulated dark glass, generating exteriority vs. interiority, day vs. night, transparency vs. opacity, contrasts. The tectonic was deeply analyzed because it had to satisfy standards, norms and protocols from 12 Latin American countries.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Structurally, the predominant materials are concrete and steel. The proposal of a solid core of reinforced concrete where two large metal trusses were anchored in a way of a habitable beam. The structure results in a positive, proactive, strong and iconic image system. This scheme is the largest armor cantilever in South America with 56 meters without support. Thus modeling technology, drive and creativity.
- Tags
- Metaphor, Freedom, Cantilever, Sculpture, Timeless, Equator, Sun, Iconic, Latitude
- Production Technology
- Environmentally UNASUR is committed to biophilic design and efficient strategies that aid in mitigating and controlling the carbon footprint left by the building. Starting with on-site materials, high-end technology and passive sustainable strategies such as water collection, certified materials, low energy consumption, cross ventilation, double skin façade system, double glazed glass, natural light, green interior and exterior areas, among others.
- Design Challenge
- A special analysis has been made to the immediate context and specifically on the Mitad del Mundo Monument. The building of UNASUR, has a horizontal type that does not exceed the height of that monument. Therefore, it is implanted in a lower level and even solves 75% of its program underground; including some of the building's significant areas such as the museum, library, etc. In this way the impact of a volume with a high requirement of areas is minimized.
- Research
- UNASUR is a worthy proposal with balanced combination of functionality, symbiosis of conceptual and pragmatic aspects in an iconic project with sober aesthetic.
- Inspiration
- The Project is located in Quito, Ecuador. Formally, the new building appears as a volume developed by three virtual axes. North-South the projection of the proposal with La Mitad del Mundo and the combination of these axes in 47 degrees, resulting from the sun or displacement of maximum declination north (23.5 degrees) and maximum declination south (23.5 degrees) in relation to the equator. The rest of the architectural approach is enrolled in the East-West axis.
- Project Duration
- The project is located next to the Mitad del Mundo monument, 14 km north of the capital city, Quito - Ecuador. The site of the proposal has been conceived as a continuous environment without barriers and open to the public, transmitting dimensional dynamic space to the mentioned complex. Likewise, the building is set back generating a large entrance plaza to the project, as a gesture of respect and contribution to the immediate environment.
- Operation Flow
- The project for UNASUR has not only analyzed the proposal within its limits. It is a socially inclusive proposal that generates open spaces for the community, as well as library and recreational areas. All of which encompasses a part of a much more ambitious integral project for the sector, including the re-empowerment of Manuel Cordova Galarza Avenue. Additionally, the reforestation of the Catequilla and Casitagua Hills, the new Boulevard of Equinoccial Avenue as an access to San Antonio de Pichincha, sports fields and finally, parks/public spaces. This involves a real and tangible catalyst for development for the sector and for tourism in the city.
- Team Members
- Diego Guayasamin, Arch.
Pablo Espinoza, Arch.
Alejandro Garcia, Arch. - Image Credits
- @DiegoGuayasaminArquitectos
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