Autonomous organism. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
20/10/2020.
[Amorebieta-Echano] Spain
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In the Spanish municipality of Amorebieta-Echano in the province of Vizcaya, the architect Javier de las Heras Solé has designed the new Zubiaur Music School, a project understood as an autonomous body.
The project gives visibility and shows the recognizable time strata in the environment by seeing the different superimposed walls, preserving the existing heritage, and the formal autonomy of the cultural center adjoining the building.
The project gives visibility and shows the recognizable time strata in the environment by seeing the different superimposed walls, preserving the existing heritage, and the formal autonomy of the cultural center adjoining the building.
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé. Photograph by Adrià Goula
Site plan and elevations (previous state and project). New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
Ground floor plan. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
First floor plan. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
Mezzanine floor plan. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
Second floor plan. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
Third floor plan. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
Elevations. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
Elevations. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
Longitudinal section. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
Longitudinal section. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
Longitudinal section. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
Cross section. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
Concept schemes. New Zubiaur Music School by Javier de las Heras Solé
The proposal of Javier de las Heras Solé was the winner in the ideas competition for the music school where the project turns its dividing wall into one more and thus complete facade and solves the entire perimeter of the existing equipment.
A game of balances that surprisingly gives a great architectonic stability to the whole.
The main volume is elegantly designed equidistant from the former fronton wall, with a carefully finished vertical volume. The top floors resolve the program forming a regular prism three floors high, parallel to the new facade-dividing wall- and a corbel.
The new dividing façade remains free and is separated to create a patio on the ground floor and a space on the rest of the floors. In addition to this, the plant is closed around the patio that functions as a drainage element and a cistern in possible floods.
A game of balances that surprisingly gives a great architectonic stability to the whole.
The main volume is elegantly designed equidistant from the former fronton wall, with a carefully finished vertical volume. The top floors resolve the program forming a regular prism three floors high, parallel to the new facade-dividing wall- and a corbel.
The new dividing façade remains free and is separated to create a patio on the ground floor and a space on the rest of the floors. In addition to this, the plant is closed around the patio that functions as a drainage element and a cistern in possible floods.
Description of project by Javier de las Heras Solé
Understand the Zeleieta Zentroa as an autonomous organism. Convert its dividing wall in an extra facade to complete and resolve all the perimeter of the actual facilities.
Save the original wall of the adjoining 'frontón' ballcourt and incorporate it as the real protagonist of the project. Give it visibility and present the layers of time that we recognize when we see the different overlapping walls, to preserve our heritage and memory.
Once the formal autonomy of the adjacent cultural centre is assumed, we understand that the Musika Eskola will work as an independent element, respecting the orthogonal criteria and abstraction of the facilities, but still being a singular and recognizable element.
Free the new facade –dividing wall- and separate ourselves to create a ground floor patio and an empty passing in the rest of the floors.
The floor closes around a patio that will work as a drain element and tank in case of a flood. It is given an offset from the longitudinal facade to build a porch all across the floor and emphasize the access.
The top floors resolve the program forming a regular prism three floors high, parallel to the new facade-dividing wall- and a corbel.
Compacts floors are trying to achieve an optimization in the available area. An effective, useful and compact box.
To achieve a totally open floor the structure resolves in the perimeter so the facade is turned into a load bearing wall. The stairs are outside this prism with an involving glass so we have a greater transparency. Stairs as an architectonic experience so that the user can have a view of the park and understand the patio dimensions and the building character as an extent, abstract and singular space.
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Architects
Collaborators
Technical architect.- Gerard Codina Mas. Architect.- Salvador Bou Gracia. Mercedes Sánchez Hernández. Technical architect - execution direction.- Peio Egurrola Marzo. Structure.- Eskubi-Turró arquitectes slp. Proisotec enginyeria slp. Acoustic Engineering.- Eko. Energy efficiency.- Societat Orgànica. Topography.- Doitu.
Builder
UTE Moyua-Bycam.
Developer
Amorebieta-Etxano Udala.
Area
1,010 sqm.
Dates
Competition.- April 2015. End of works.- April 2020.
Manufacturers
Carpentry.- Larraondo. Singular facades.- Uxama - Corten facade, glass and curtain wall. Teleco electricity and solar panels.- Radimer. Climate installer.- Vasa.
Location
Zelaieta Park. Amorebieta-Etxano, Basque Country, Spain.
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Javier de las Heras Solé
Javier de las Heras Solé is an architect who lives and works in Barcelona.
Javier de las Heras Solé obtains the title of Architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Vallés.
He has been awarded in numerous public competitions, among which the Nuevo Teatro de Llodio, the Musika Eskola in Amorebieta, the new Office of Arquia Banca -Caja de Arquitectos- in Girona, the Museum of the Forest in Sant Celoni, a Day Center and 57 sheltered homes for the elderly in Es Molinar -Palma de Mallorca-, the Extension of the Headquarters of the CoAC College of Architects of Tarragona, the project for the construction of a Media Library in Mataró, the expansion and reform of the IES Cap Norfeu in Roses and the rehabilitation, adaptation, and expansion of the Buenavista bullring in Oviedo.
The work for the expansion of the IES Cap Norfeu in Roses has been selected in the 2013 Fad Awards, a finalist for the 2012 “comarques gironines” awards and has participated in the Vogadors Pavilion of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands at the 2012 Venice Biennale.
The work of the new Arquia Banca Office in Girona has been a finalist for the 2016 “comarques gironines” awards, selected for the Catalonia Construction Awards.
Currently, in the development and construction management phase of the Nuevo Teatro de Llodio and the 57 homes and Day Center in Palma de Mallorca.
Javier de las Heras Solé obtains the title of Architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Vallés.
He has been awarded in numerous public competitions, among which the Nuevo Teatro de Llodio, the Musika Eskola in Amorebieta, the new Office of Arquia Banca -Caja de Arquitectos- in Girona, the Museum of the Forest in Sant Celoni, a Day Center and 57 sheltered homes for the elderly in Es Molinar -Palma de Mallorca-, the Extension of the Headquarters of the CoAC College of Architects of Tarragona, the project for the construction of a Media Library in Mataró, the expansion and reform of the IES Cap Norfeu in Roses and the rehabilitation, adaptation, and expansion of the Buenavista bullring in Oviedo.
The work for the expansion of the IES Cap Norfeu in Roses has been selected in the 2013 Fad Awards, a finalist for the 2012 “comarques gironines” awards and has participated in the Vogadors Pavilion of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands at the 2012 Venice Biennale.
The work of the new Arquia Banca Office in Girona has been a finalist for the 2016 “comarques gironines” awards, selected for the Catalonia Construction Awards.
Currently, in the development and construction management phase of the Nuevo Teatro de Llodio and the 57 homes and Day Center in Palma de Mallorca.
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