D525 Barcelona Fale o Ofisa by Sanzpont Arquitectura is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Fausaga Fale Competition Category.
ArioFausaga Fale· 2022
D525 Barcelona Fale o Ofisa
Client: Inmobiliaria Colonial
A' Design Award Ario Winner in Fausaga Fale Category
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About D525 Barcelona Fale o Ofisa
O le D525 Barcelona o se fale o ofisa na faia e ala i le toe faafouina gafataulimaina o se fausaga sa iai mai le vaitau o le 1970. O le poloketi e aofia ai le 7,000 sikuea mita ma e iai fogafale e sefulu o ofisa ma nofoaga mo fesootaiga. O le foliga autu o le fale e tuufaatasia ai faamalama tetele ma ni modiuli e tolu-fua o le Krion faaphotocatalytic e fesoasoani e faamama ai le ea. O louvers photovoltaic i le foliga i saute e maua ai le paolo i masina mafanafana ma faatupu ai le malosi mama. O se togalaau i luga o le taualuga ua totoina i ituaiga o laau moni e maualalo le faaaogaina o le malosi e faaopoopo ai le faaseua ma faaleleia ai le tau faalotoifale.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Ario
O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai D525 Barcelona Fale o Ofisa, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina D525 Barcelona Fale o Ofisa e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. D525 Barcelona Fale o Ofisa o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The building of the new headquarters of Naturgy group in Barcelona, a building owned by Inmobiliaria Colonial, has been designed through the concept of sustainable renovation, recovering a building built with the aim of reducing its environmental impact of use, extending its efficient useful life. Its execution has been carried out with materials of strict respect for the environment and a comprehensive environmental quality management plan, and it has incorporated all construction requirements to achieve LEED Gold certification.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- D525 Barcelona is a Project of 7,000 square meters with 10 levels of offices and networking areas. All levels have a view of the roof garden located in level 1, which occupy a large part of the building. It was designed as a natural green space, incorporating low-consumption native plant species, which, in addition to providing an extra insulation layer, helps to minimize the environmental impact improving the microclimate and helping to mitigate the heat island effect.
- Tags
- Office building, restoration, sustainable, krion modules, structure restoration
- Production Technology
- The project integrates a main facade based on large windows that provide natural light, defined by unique photocatalytic krion 3D modules, which have the ability to purify the air thanks to their photocatalytic material.
The design of the south facade integrates a treatment of photovoltaic louvers, that protect from the sun in the warmer months of the year and generate enough clean energy to power 1562 points of light running 4 hours a day for 35 years and avoid the emission of 196 tons of CO2. - Design Challenge
- The original building, from the '70s, was used for housing in the past and had several structural challenges. It had insufficient, altered pre-existing structure, with minimum floor heights and important deformations on the slabs that led to unevenness in a single floor of the order of 8cm. The current regulatory requirements called for creating new slabs openings for evacuation stairs and facility lines, making it necessary to replace the original stabilization core.
- Research
- The project has been developed using the latest BIM technology in the cloud for its complete coordination, integrating virtual models of architecture, engineering and interior design, in addition to the urban environment, generating a coordinated digital building.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration for this project was the concept of recovering an existing building to reform it and reduce its impact, providing greater sustainability and leaving a better tomorrow. The smooth and flowing forms of nature inspired the design of the building, breaking the traditional form of rigid vertical and horizontal lines, so that the building can be perceived as a pure and iconic element.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2020 and was completed in March 2021. It is located in Diagonal 525, Barcelona, Spain.
- Operation Flow
- Naturgy's new headquarters symbolizes the transformation of his company, with new, more sustainable, flexible and collaborative work environments, and it houses the corporate services that the company has.
The distribution of the workstations implemented in the building has been carried out according to the open space modality, with flexible, open and connected environments, and with a technology that allows total mobility of the employee. In addition, the new spaces are paperless, in line with the sustainability that the company is implementing in all its business lines. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Sanzpont Arquitectura
- Team Members
- Sergio Sanz, Victor Sanz, Oriol Vidal, Xevi Prat, Carles Campanyà, Guillem Armengol
- Image Credits
- Sergio Sanz (Courtesy of Sanzpont), David Cardelús (Courtesy of Naturgy) & Dani Rovira (Courtesy of Colonial)
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