Industrial fabric production unit. Unidade Industrial Duvalli by 3.14 Arquitectura

17/12/2021. [Santa Maria da Feira] Portugal
metalocus, VALERIA OZUNA

The Portuguese studio 3.14 Arquitectura has been commissioned to design "Duvalli," a large industrial building for the production of fabrics. Formally, the project is a large parallelepiped, to which are attached much smaller ones that house production support services and employees.

The project is located on an industrial site in Santa Maria da Feira, a Portuguese city in the Aveiro district of Portugal. The project results in a building that translates into the articulation between two fundamental and complementary structures.

Unidade Industrial Duvalli by 3.14 Arquitectura. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.

Unidade Industrial Duvalli by 3.14 Arquitectura. Photograph by Ivo Tavares Studio.

Ground floor plan. Unidade Industrial Duvalli by 3.14 Arquitectura.

First floor plan. Unidade Industrial Duvalli by 3.14 Arquitectura.

Elevations and section. Unidade Industrial Duvalli by 3.14 Arquitectura.

The two complementary structures designed by 3.14 Arquitectura are the large production building and the smaller building that is attached to the first and houses the administrative services spread over two floors.

The project has a strong architectural expression that gives character and presence to the complex. Due to its location at the east/south vertex of the Unit and facing the traffic circle, it becomes an expressive building, which at the same time translates into a brand image for the client.

Description of project by 3.14 Arquitectura

In an industrial lot, that due to its position in the articulation between an avenue and a structuring roundabout, is a corner of local relevance, it was implanted an industrial unit of fabrics production.

Given the relevance of the reading of the lot in relation to the roundabout, a building was created that enlarges it and that translates into the articulation between two fundamental and complementary structures. One is the large production nave, a parallelepiped of large dimensions, to which some much smaller ones are attached and host the production support services and employees. The other smaller one, which leans against it and hosts the administrative services spread over two floors, has a strong architectural expression, as if it were a reptile's head. It is located at the East/South vertex of the Unit and facing the roundabout, it becomes the expressive face of the complex, its brand image.

The administrative body swings suspended marking the entrance and indicates us the public route of arrival, lower down, the entrance, flows into the central atrium, high, illuminated, which indicates and distributes us to the different spaces.

We consider the materiality of the components as a way of positioning and marking them, according to their function, within the planned structure. Due to the requirement for temperature and humidity control, the large nave was born in sandwich panel, more sober, neutral and acts as a backdrop to the administrative body. Lined in zinc with the Adeka system by VMZinc, it highlights its presence through texture and colour.

In the same sense of creating a modern and solid image, it emerges an element of arrival, of introduction... The staircase, located in the heart of the administrative sector, is a sculpture, the hinge element around which we have access to the entire "universe of the company".

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Architects

3.14 Arquitectura.

Client

Duvalli S.A.

Area

7,600 sqm.

Dates

2021.

Location

Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.

Photography

Ivo Tavares Studio.

João Castelo, Carlos Moreira. 3.14 Arquitectura

3.14 Arquitectura e design has its genesis in 2010, formed by the duo of architects João Castelo and Carlos Moreira.

Based in the city of Espinho, they develop their activity with a solid foundation in the fundamental principles and good practices of architecture, choosing as their main weapon the client/architect interconnection as a response to the needs of the final product.

Always with a sense of innovation, following the trends and constant changes of society, we develop spaces that show the concern to turn them into elements of reference.

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Industrial fabric production unit. Unidade Industrial Duvalli by 3.14 Arquitectura

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