A mixed-use texture. New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13
19/01/2024.
[Ibiza] Spain
metalocus, JORGE MARTINEZ
metalocus, JORGE MARTINEZ
The architecture studio Garmendia Cordero arquitectos has joined forces with Estudio Vila 13 to design the new Gasifred offices within an industrial warehouse under construction on the outskirts of the city of Ibiza, in the Balearic Islands, in Spain. The plot on which the warehouse is located is triangular in shape and forms one of the vertices of the polygon in which it is located.
The architects decided to shape the distribution of the project based on a main axis, the bisector, which is formed from the vertex where the entrance to the building is located. The axis generates a false symmetry that resolves the different rooms with the intention of generating intuitive and functional routes and using color and round shapes to do so.
The architects decided to shape the distribution of the project based on a main axis, the bisector, which is formed from the vertex where the entrance to the building is located. The axis generates a false symmetry that resolves the different rooms with the intention of generating intuitive and functional routes and using color and round shapes to do so.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
Site plan. New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13.
Site plan. New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13.
Ground floor plan. New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13.
First floor plan. New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13.
Section plan. New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13.
Drawing. New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13.
The New Gasifred Offices, designed by the architectural studios Garmendia Cordero architects and Estudio Vila 13, is a two-story triangular-shaped building, on the ground floor the showroom and visitor area is located, on the one hand, taking advantage of a large double atrium height in the entrance area and the warehouse and spare parts distribution area on the other, while the offices, their related uses and a home are located on the upper floor.
The entrance atrium is characterized by housing a powerful reddish volume that serves as a vertical communication core. On the ground floor, wood and pale colors increase their prominence in order to soften the climate of the space, and on the first floor the contrast of tones and textures between the wood and the concrete of the structure take center stage in the space.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
The entrance atrium is characterized by housing a powerful reddish volume that serves as a vertical communication core. On the ground floor, wood and pale colors increase their prominence in order to soften the climate of the space, and on the first floor the contrast of tones and textures between the wood and the concrete of the structure take center stage in the space.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
Project description by Garmendia Cordero architects and Estudio Vila 13
We were commissioned to design the image of the new Gasifred offices within an industrial warehouse under construction on the outskirts of Ibiza city.
The plot, as well as the projected building, is triangular in shape and forms one of the vertices of the polygon in which it is located.
With the structure already defined and about to begin construction, it was decided to resolve the interior distribution using as the main axis the bisector of the angle formed by the two sides of the triangle at whose union the access to the building is located.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
Likewise, a clear programmatic division is proposed: a ground floor for the showroom and visitor area on the one hand, taking advantage of a large double-height atrium in the entrance area and the warehouse and spare parts distribution area on the other, while the offices, their related uses and a home are located on the upper floor.
Following the direction marked by the bisector and which generates a false symmetry, the different rooms are resolved with the intention of generating intuitive and functional routes and using color and round shapes to do so.
A powerful reddish volume presides over the large atrium and houses the vertical communication core. Before reaching it, the showroom and showcooking area is organized within the lowest perimeter, freeing the high area for events and presentations with a single central element as a reception that receives the visitor, always in the shadow of the ceramic prism. , the only element that covers the entire free height and organizes the flows around it.
New Gasifred Offices by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos + Estudio Vila 13. Photograph by Salva Carbó.
On the first floor, wood and pale colors increase their prominence in order to soften the climate of the space, highly marked by the imposing construction elements of the nave.
In contrast to the upper view where the large concrete beams and the self-supporting curved metal roof are the protagonists, at eye level, the pine wood and the corporate colors toned down achieve a warmer and friendlier sensation.
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Architects
Garmendia Cordero arquitectos (Álvaro Cordero + Carlos Garmendia) + Estudio Vila 13 (nave).
Collaborators
Signage design.- &Berta Branding Studio.
Builder
Blemar.
Area
4,033 m².
Dates
2023.
Location
Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain.
Photography
arquitectos garmendia cordero
Garmendia Cordero Arquitectos is an architecture studio located in Bilbao and led by Álvaro Cordero Iturregui (ETSASS 2000) and Carlos Garmendia Fernández (ETSAB 2009).
It was founded at the end of 2015, always trying to maintain a way of working based on sincerity, coherence and respect for the context.
They have developed projects of very different characteristics, from ephemeral performances to new buildings, always with a significant percentage of interventions in existing buildings and, in each of the cases, they have tried to ensure that these three premises make up the structural line of the process.
Likewise, they believe that any way of approaching a new project must have the ultimate aim of improving the spaces on which they act, and this is how they approach each new work.
During this time, they have experimented with the relationships generated between the existing and the new architecture that is generated, trying at all times to act with the utmost respect for the context, be it material or intellectual, so that, once the particular history of each case has been analysed, they can intervene in the most personalized and targeted way possible.
They aspire, each time, for this script to end up generating projects with a clear reading where the main intentions of the idea are reflected, giving enormous importance to the function, whether through emphatic volumes, textures or through the exhaustive analysis of each conditioning factor in a global manner, in order to respond to these programmatic needs.
Their intention is always to work at all scales, whatever the size or entity of the project, they have learned to understand architecture in this way and this is how they try to reflect it in each work, taking care of the smallest detail to the largest implementation.
It was founded at the end of 2015, always trying to maintain a way of working based on sincerity, coherence and respect for the context.
They have developed projects of very different characteristics, from ephemeral performances to new buildings, always with a significant percentage of interventions in existing buildings and, in each of the cases, they have tried to ensure that these three premises make up the structural line of the process.
Likewise, they believe that any way of approaching a new project must have the ultimate aim of improving the spaces on which they act, and this is how they approach each new work.
During this time, they have experimented with the relationships generated between the existing and the new architecture that is generated, trying at all times to act with the utmost respect for the context, be it material or intellectual, so that, once the particular history of each case has been analysed, they can intervene in the most personalized and targeted way possible.
They aspire, each time, for this script to end up generating projects with a clear reading where the main intentions of the idea are reflected, giving enormous importance to the function, whether through emphatic volumes, textures or through the exhaustive analysis of each conditioning factor in a global manner, in order to respond to these programmatic needs.
Their intention is always to work at all scales, whatever the size or entity of the project, they have learned to understand architecture in this way and this is how they try to reflect it in each work, taking care of the smallest detail to the largest implementation.
Ana Olmo. Estudio Vila 13
Estudio Vila 13 is an architecture and interior design studio founded by architect Ana Olmo based on the island of Ibiza, where they develop much of their work. In recent years, the enormous impact of her projects has led them to expand their activity to other places such as Malta, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Mallorca and Menorca. Currently they have a large team of architects with great experience and a huge vocation for the project and a job well done.
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