For its construction, IDOM chose a steel structure with prefabricated concrete cladding that filters solar radiation, giving the building an imposing and dynamic appearance. The complex building systems are integrated as an essential part of the architecture, minimizing visual impact and facilitating maintenance.
Prioritizing workplace comfort and integration with the landscape, the outdoor spaces are designed as areas for gathering and well-being. Paving and landscaping are combined, creating different areas for passage and relaxation that benefit both employees and visitors.
Positioning itself as a model that sensitively combines technical precision with urban considerations, the new Estrella Galicia brewery in Morás represents industrial architecture committed to the environment, efficiency, and quality of life.
Packaging office building of the new Estrella Galicia brewery. Photograph by Alfonso Quiroga.
Project description by IDOM
The new Estrella Galicia brewery in Morás (Arteixo) redefines the concept of industrial architecture by integrating sustainability, workplace well-being, and urban sensitivity. The complex is organized into “industrial blocks” that represent the different stages of the brewing cycle, allowing for coherent future expansions while creating a green, legible environment.
Within this complex, the Packaging Offices Building, designed by IDOM, is conceived as a monolithic volume attached to the production hall, also by IDOM. Its rigorous geometry and clean lines clearly express its industrial character, while its eastern façade opens onto a tree-lined esplanade that welcomes visitors with pedestrian paths and privileged views.
The internal organization follows a modular, transparent, and flexible logic, based on the structural grid of the production hall. The structure is resolved in steel, with prefabricated concrete envelopes that regulate solar radiation and give the building a robust and dynamic appearance.
The building accommodates offices, laboratories, tasting rooms, changing rooms, and rest areas, distributed across two main floors and a technical roof. Building services are architecturally integrated, incorporating air–water climate control systems, LED lighting, advanced water management, and LEED Gold standards.
The Central Offices, designed by architects Manuel Gallego Jorreto and Pablo Gallego Picard, form one of the most representative façades of the complex. Located on a natural balcony oriented toward the southeast, the building opens to the landscape through carefully designed external spaces that include gardens, green parking areas, and pedestrian paths. This intervention reinforces the public vocation of the complex and its integration with the surrounding environment.
Both buildings share a common premise: to carefully shape the urban space they generate, understanding architecture as an opportunity to improve the relationship between the factory and its context. The overall urban design is articulated through boulevards, landscaped areas, and transitional spaces that connect the technical with the human.
Outdoor spaces are conceived as areas for social interaction and well-being, featuring a large green parking area equipped with electric vehicle charging points. The botanical selection includes resilient, low-maintenance species, reinforcing the project’s connection with the natural landscape.
The new Estrella Galicia brewery in Morás represents an industrial architecture committed to its surroundings, efficiency, and quality of life, consolidating a model that combines technical precision with urban sensitivity.
