Located in Campina Grande (Paraíba) this building was designed and built to accommodate the new headquarters of CREA (Engineering Council Body). 

1º Premio en Concurso Nacional. Their authors, MAPA, are a team based at Uruguay and Brazil.

The project designed by MAPA, pays great attention to its outer skin, and its protection by a brise soleil from the strong sun. This skin allows the entry of light and the generation of comfortable spaces that play with the projection of the shadow. A building permeable to light, permeable to the vision of the city. Inside the space is divided into two zones connected by a walkway.

The scale of the building and skin allow reduce the building volume and also help to integrate the building in its urban context.

Description of project by MAPA

A Permeable building.

The precast concrete permeable “skin” does not resemble the usual glazed institutional buildings, impervious and impermeable. Instead its transparency and lightness give the whole building qualities recommended for the modern state institutions.

Inside, the patios play the main role – transparent and covered with glass panels over the main circulation areas, fully permeable over the garden and the reflective pool on the ground floor.

The program is distributed in two levels: The upper floor accommodates the administrative functions - divided in two sections connected by a metallic walkway while the ground floor receives the public functions with a multipurpose room able to work as a lecture space, seating up to 150 people. The main hall and other areas are open and unfenced – totally permeable – and all connected and delimited by its double height internal patio space.

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MAPA (MAAM Studioparalelo). Authors.- Luciano Andrades, Matías Carballal, Rochelle Castro, Andrés Gobba, Mauricio López, Silvio Machado, Álvaro Méndes.

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Competition.- Project team.- Emiliano Etchegaray, Belén García, Gabriel Giambastiani, Aldo Lanzi, Sebastián Martínez, Nicolás Rudolph, Ken Sei Fong.
Executive Project.- Equipo de projecto: Sebastian Caram, Gerard Rouillier, Pablo Courreges, Emiliano Etchegaray, Belén García, Gabriel Giambastiani, Jaqueline Lessa. 

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Renders.- MAAMMEDIA. 
Structure.- Tecnon (structure), Valls Engenharia (estructura brises structure). 
Landscape.- Plante Bem Paisagismo, Lourinaldo Pinto.
Construction Audition.- Vilanova Arquitetos: Marcus Vinicius, Fabiano Melo, Camila Vilar.

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AHP Construções e empreendimentos.

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780m².

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2010 - 2012.

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Campina Grande (Paraíba), Brazil.

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Leonardo Finotti.

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MAPA is the fusion of MAAM and STUDIOPARALELO. They are two architecture studios that have become a binational collective driven by continuous exploration and that are searching for the relevant in the disciplinary and academic fields. MAPA is formed by Luciano Andrades, Matías Carballal, Rochelle Castro, Andrés Gobba, Mauricio López, Silvio Machado.

STUDIOPARALELO and MAAM ARCHITECTS were born as independent architecture offices in this century's first decade. In 2008 they began to share commissions and won several awards and competitions, as well as participation in exhibitions and biennials. After five years of partnership, they merged both studies, establishing offices in Porto Alegre, Brazil and Montevideo, Uruguay.

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Published on: May 27, 2014
Cite: "CREA-PB Headquarters by MAPA" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/crea-pb-headquarters-mapa> ISSN 1139-6415
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