Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us some photographs of an office building designed by Portuguese architects Samuel Ruiz Torres de Carvalho and Pedro Palmero Cabezas in Madrid, Spain.

An irregular-shaped courtyard in the centre of the building provides natural light and can be accessed from all floors by glazed elevators.

The walls of the courtyard are made up of continuous panes of glass, making all the interior spaces visible to each other.

The exterior façade is clad in a perforated steel plate, which provides solar protection but allows light to enter the interior spaces.

Photographs are by Fernando & Sergio Guerra.

The following information is from the architects:

NOTES ON THE OFFICE BUILDING IN CALLE ALFONSO GOMEZ

The building is located in an industrial area of Madrid which has been under a process of transformation over the past few years in which the old industrial premises are being replaced by new buildings of mixed use, housing new activities like small firms of software development, design or film production.

This industrial environment is reflected in the materials used on this project: glass and perforated steel plate.

The building assumes a relatively compact shape that stretches out and occupies the depth of the plot.

To provide natural light to all the working spaces, a courtyard was created which, with its irregular shape, multiplies the reflections and the perception of the space, in a joyful contrast with the austere exterior.

The courtyard acts as a big lobby, with glazed elevators, giving access to each floor through an open loggia.

Each floor is organized as an open working space whose shape, dimension and proximity to the façade allows different layouts.

All the service spaces are lined along the North wall, facing the adjacent building.

The exterior façades provide, with their perforated steel plate skin, good natural lighting and at the same time, good solar protection and a sense of enclosure.

At night, the apparently windowless building reveals its glowing interior.

Client: NEMILSA 2003, S.L,.
Location: C/ ALFONSO GÓMEZ Nº 30-32, MADRID

Construction year: 2008
Constructed area: 6.638 M2

Architecture and Project coordination: Samuel Ruiz Torres de Carvalho, Pedro Palmero Cabezas, architects

Collaborators: Alfonso Górriz Figuera, Laura Peique Simón, Elena Gómez Agüero, Oscar Poveda Pérez, Oscar Pozuelo López, Javier Romero

Administrative assistance: Mar Secades Pérez, Gema Esteban Abad

Engineering Consultants

Structure: Jesús Hierro Sureda
Technical Equipment: Senorsa

Builder:KONIN 22
Photographs: FG+SG. Fotografia de Arquitectura

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Photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of an office building for technology companies in Almada, Portugal, by architects Samuel Ruiz Torres de Carvalho and Pedro Palmero Cabezas.

Called Madan Parque, the project features a central entrance hall and staircase that cut through the rectangular block and link two sides of the building.

Further windows with green frames are sheltered in recesses cut into the volume.

The information below is from the architects:

The building houses an incubator for technology based companies and is located at Monte da Caparica, Almada.

The form of the building results from a process in which the built mass is moulded and subtracted in response to the irregularity of the plot and the different functional requirements.

This dissolution of the volume blurs the limit between exterior and interior, rooting the construction to the soil.

The plot has two opposite street fronts, with a difference in levels of one floor.

Connecting these street fronts a large lobby with a monumental staircase crosses the building.

This space has a somewhat public character and constitutes a place of informal encounter for the occupants.

Walking through the building, visual perspectives unfold, relating different spaces, interior and exterior, public and private, sometimes crossing different floors.

The working spaces are very different from each other in their form and relation with the outside, breaking the stereotyped idea of an office building.

MADAN PARQUE BUILDING

Client:Madan Parque
Location:Monte da Caparica, Almada

Construction year: 2008
Constructed area: 3.210,00m2

Architecture and Project coordination: Samuel Ruiz Torres de Carvalho, Pedro Palmero Cabezas, architects

Collaborators: João Caetano, Xana Gavancha, Catarina Faria, Paulo Valente, Susana Medeiros, Sofia Afonso, Elise Azemard, Ricardo Alves

Photographs: FG+SG. Fotografia de Arquitectura

Engineering Consultants: Electricity, Comunications systems, Fire: EPPE, Eng. José Cardoso, Eng. José Carlos Correia

Structure: PPE, Eng. Eduardo Freitas
Air conditioning: CPIE, Eng. Joaquim Nunes Serra

Water supply and sewerage: AquaePro, Eng. José Pereira Monteiro
Acoustics: APEN, Eng. João Gonçalves, Eng. Horácio Carvalho

Landscape Architecture: PROAP, João Nunes, Carlos Ribas, architects
Builder: OMEP, Obras, Medições e Projectos, Lda

Building Fiscalization: STA – SEGADÃES TAVARES & ASSOC. Eng. Eduardo Luís

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