On the edge, Cuatrecasas Headquarter by GCA Arquitects

14/06/2017. [BCN] Spain
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
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The practice from Barcelona, GCV arquitects have designed the new Quatrecasa's headquarters. This new home, for the well-known lawyers, is a complex-building with 3 volumes designed to play on the structural edge.
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Located at the Campus Audiovisual 22@, at the crossroad of Avenida Diagonal with Roc Boronat Street, Barcelona, Spain, the building designed by GCA Arquitects and also Cuatrecasas Headquarter, stands as pure and minimalist volumes responding to the particular need of this main avenue.

With capacity for more than 1000 people and a functional program distributed in two towers of 11 and 18 plants respectively, it reaches up to 72m in height.
 

Project description by GCA Architects

The opening of the new Avenida Diagonal, beyond the Plaza de las Glories, was considered as an opportunity to endow this important route with a new continuous facade of buildings, capable of offering an iconic counterpoint, constituting the gateway to Poblenou XXI century.

Both volumes are joined by a triple height glass atrium that allows the passage of natural light to the interior while offering a cross view from the two main entrances. This space integrated the reception and itineraries to the common uses of the building. It has a continuous perimeter skylight and several circular skylights in the center, which also allow the evacuation of smoke in case of emergency. Two glass door canopies cover the circular entry and indicate the access areas.

The West tower morphology creates a gesture at the height of the seventh plant, which generates an important overhang towards the pedestrian passage and allows the formation of a landscaped roof.

In the interior, the Building integrates a complete functional program witch include uses such as a restaurant with showcooking, gym with rooms of directed activities and auditorium with capacity for about 200 people. Undeground are are 3 basement floors with parking and technical rooms. The complex has a total constructed area of approximately 28,000m2.

Each tower incorporates a compact central core that contains stair boxes, toilets and 4 elevators equipped to efficiently handle the traffic of people inside the building.

The facade system is modular and has a frame of uprights and aluminum slats that have been designed in order to fulfil a double function: interior privacy, reinforced by the use of reflective glass in the areas of vision, and sun protection, resulting in a second skin Homogenous structure that surrounds the building.

In the West tower, this skin disappears from Seventh plant, once guaranteed the interior privacy, allowing a more transparent vision towards the sea and over the city, and creating a feeling of tension in the two main facades.

The structure consists mainly of a reinforced concrete core containing toilets, stairwells and elevators; And a metal frame for the cantilevered body, which balances the structural load.

This structure has been constructed with an ascending-descending system, allowing the excavation of the basement plants at the same time as the building is constructed in height, which shortens the construction times.

For interior design, high quality materials have been used, as well as modular systems of furniture and interior division that allow to create more flexible spaces, alternating between rooms and more private offices and "open space" areas.
 

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Architects
Josep Juanpere Miret - Josep Riu de Martin
Project and construction management
Juan Velasco García de Sierra
Executive management
Jesús Hernando Fernández, Daniel Fernández Muñoz, César Delgado Gómez
Project Manager construction
Jesús Andrés López (ÁGORA)
Structure engineers
Agustí Obiol i Sanchez (BAC ecg), Nacho Costales Calvo (BAC ecg), Gerant Yerai Bordon y de Benito (BAC ecg)
Collaborators
Engineering.- Mª Lluisa Sánchez Romero (JSS Associats), Francesc Juncosa Esperanza (JSS Associats). Health and safety.- Raúl Zapater Casas (GCA) Facade.- Xavier Ferrés Padró (FERRES ARQUITECTOS), Alexandre Jutglà Nogué (FERRES ARQUITECTOS). Illumination LED.- Alfons Noria (LAVOLA Cosostenibilitat), Cristina Bayés (LAVOLA Cosostenibilitat). Technical control.- Jorge Noriega Cumplido (ATISAE), Xavier Vivancos Boleda (ATISAE). Environmental control.- Lidia Lázaro Rodríguez (ATISAE), Mariana Pastorino (ATISAE). Quality control.- Jorge Toledano Martínez (BAC ecg), Aureli Ibars (BAC ecg), José Ruiperez Atienza (BAC ecg).
Builder
COMSA SAU

Josep Juanpere + Antonio Puig. GCA Architects

GCA Architects, based in Barcelona, founded in 1986 by Josep Juanpere and Antonio Puig, is a study of architecture and interior design. Their management team is made up of seven partners and five young associates. With a trajectory of more than 35 years, they continue to design under a consolidated international dimension with works throughout the world.

Josep Juanpere.- He studied at the Technical Upper School of Architecture of Barcelona from 1970 to 1976. In 1986 he founds GCA architects with Antonio Puig. Antonio Puig.- He studied in the Technical Top School of Architecture of the Vallés from 1977 to 1984. In 1986 he founds GCA architects with Josep Juanpere.

GCA Architects has a multidimensional team of more than 100 professionals composed of senior architects, junior architects, building technicians, interior designers, consultants, project managers and communication specialists. In this way we guarantee that all projects are studied from start to finish and have all the experience of the company and its partners, as with all the freshness and innovation that new generations bring.

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