In an environment characterized by independent landscaped plots, where the use of the private vehicle prevails, the built volumetry is rotated, providing visual richness and allowing the creation of a public square and a green area in front of the main façade. This space serves as a networking and meeting area open to the entire technopolis, with a cafeteria that overlooks the landscape.
The building has a LEED gold rating and has been designed under sustainability and efficiency standards. The use of recycled materials, green roofs with low water consumption vegetation, and low consumption faucets, among others, allows the building to give a more sensitive and friendly response to the environment.
Rosalind building by estudio Primitivo González. Photograph by Fernándo Alda.
Project description by Estudio Primitivo González
Rosalind is the first of three buildings planned as a campus located in the expansion of the Andalusia Technology Park, in Malaga. The three buildings dialogue with each other, offering a new recognizable zone, echoing the character of this expanding business area with a youthful and optimistic spirit.
The project is a commitment to the flexibility of use, with a simple and functional layout that maximizes the possibilities of occupation. The common areas, vertical communication cores, and services are arranged in a central longitudinal nucleus, freeing up the façade, all of which can be used as office areas with natural lighting and views of the surroundings. Simultaneously, the relevance of the load-bearing structure in the office area is diluted while the systematization and modulation of constructive elements gain visibility, providing great versatility of use to the floor plan.
Rosalind building by estudio Primitivo González. Photograph by estudio Primitivo González.
Rosalind building by estudio Primitivo González. Photograph by Fernándo Alda.
In addition, the server spaces are arranged to allow each floor to be subdivided into four equivalent offices, so that these can be leased to small start-ups, each of them maintaining individual service areas. The facilities remain visible in the open office area above the false ceiling islands that concentrate lighting, terminal elements, and acoustic insulation, reinforcing the casual character of the work areas while allowing for maximum versatility.
The façade emphasizes the longitudinally of the block with several rows of fixed and adjustable horizontal slats. From the outside, this variation generates a vibrating façade. From the inside, the long slat blocks frame the landscape, leaving a horizontal opening at the height of a seated person, from which the outline of the distant mountains can be seen. This façade shades the office spaces while providing a unitary and recognizable character to the set of buildings.
Furthermore, in an environment characterized by independent landscaped plots, where the use of private vehicles prevails, the built volume is rotated, providing visual richness and allowing for the creation of a public square and a green area in front of the main façade. This space serves as a networking and meeting area open for the entire technopolis, with a cafeteria that overlooks the landscape.
Rosalind building by estudio Primitivo González. Photograph by Fernándo Alda.
The building has been designed with high standards of sustainability and efficiency. Features amongst others: visible concrete slabs lightened with recycled material spheres that provide thermal inertia to the building, green roofs with low-water consumption vegetation, collection, and accumulation of rainwater for irrigation, cross-ventilation, inner ventilated patios, solar protection gallery, very low consumption taps, material origin control, ... For all these reasons, the building has a LEED gold rating.
