We invite you to know the energetic central which has been designed by Forgas Architects in Barcelona. The project helps to improve the sustainability of the city itself and invites the public to know the different production processes with visits to its facilities, where they are carried out systems of water, biomass and gas. A good project, industrial typology, developing technologies, developing energy innovation. Good architecture for industry. A good project.

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The power station is pioneer  in terms of sustainable production and use of energy, with several high-efficiency technologies. It provides an urban network of distribution of hot / cold and injects  self-generated electricity to the distribution network, from the use of residual cold from the reagasification station from the maritime port and from the biomass provided by the urban and metropolitan pruning.

The implemented system actively contributes to increase the sustainability of the city of Barcelona and its surroundings: triples energy efficiency and reduce in 75% CO2 emissions compared to conventional solutions. The facilities enable the intelligent management of the supply and demand (SmartGrid).

The architectural actuation adds to the functional program (industrial and office) spaces to show  the public the processes of production through a perimeter route tour to the facilities, and at the same time this actuation sets the façades of the building, contributing as an element of education, training and outreach of environmental and sustainability values, which must guide human activity.

Each one of the facades is associated with one of the systems present in the central:  water, gas and biomass.

Text: Forgas Arquitectes.

CREDITS.-

Architects.- Joan Forgas/Dolors Ylla-Català.
Team collaborators.- Cristina Goenaga, Francesc Inés, Pedro Gil, Anna Lete, Joao Viana, BOMA (structural design), PGI (building systems), JR Soldevila (quantity survey/budget), Albert Bestard (agricultural engineer), Garraux Carrera, architects for Nussli España (south façade technical development). Video by.- Garraux Carrera.
Promoter: Barcelona City Council and TERSA.
Client: DALKIA Energía y Servicio SA / Ecoenergías.
Budget: 7.000.000 € (PEC).
Date.- 2009-2012.
Project.- Centralized Heat and Cold Generation Plant of Barcelona South/Zona Franca.
Surface.- 9.700m² (built)/ 104.409 Sq. Ft.
Site.- Barcelona. Spain.

Winner entry at the "Competition for a Centralized Heat and Cold Generation Plant" at the Marina neighborhood of Barcelona, 2009.

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Forgas Arquitectes is an architecture office founded in 1989 by Joan Forgas and Dolors Ylla-Català devoted to develope projects in the area of public space, infrastructure, equipments, housing, rebuilding and patrimony. In these years of experience the team has received several awards and has also won numerous national and international ideas competicions.

The office has an inner core of professional workers with a large group of collaborators, gathering interdisciplinary teams depending on the nature of projects to develop.

FORGAS ARQUITECTES works to achieve the equilibrium and balance between the intrinsic ability of emotional architecture and the inexcusable utility and proportion, making proposals attentive to physical context, environmentally responsible, technologically solvents and trying to respond to the requests and questions posed by society.

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Published on: February 22, 2013
Cite: "Centralized Heat and Cold Generation Plant in Barcelona" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/centralized-heat-and-cold-generation-plant-barcelona> ISSN 1139-6415
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