Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz
08/07/2013.
[MAD] Spain
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA
This building, called Lolita, try to merge the professional activity with the surrounding landscape that encompasses different scales and programs, getting noticed in a very diverse context. The architects are supported by geometry, scale and proportion, besides using different materials to distinguish the project from other office buildings.
Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia.
Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia.
Interior view of Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia.
Interior view of Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia.
Interior view of Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia.
Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia.
Access. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia.
Interior view of Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia.
Facade´s detail. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia.
Facade´s detail. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia.
Night view. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia.
Site plan. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz.
First floor. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz.
Second floor. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz.
Third floor. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz.
Section. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz.
East elevation. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz.
Constructive detail. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz.
Sketch. Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz.
Lolita, office building by Ábalos + Sentkiewicz. Photography © José Hevia
Project Synopsis
This is a commercial building in front of the M40/+A6 loop, with a small park beside, city views to the south and over the mountains to the north. The guiding concept is to create a stimulating working environment offsetting the typical modular and material remains of the office building for an interior landscape in interaction with various exterior landscape scales: The one of the highways, which kinetic trace replicates and accompanies; the one of the distance views, toward its volumes are oriented; and the one of the public park and its own garden, which it interacts with through trees shadows and water reflections. The building manage to impose its presence entrusting on the resources of geometry, scale and proportion with a reduction to the limit of the building elements employed. The noise and the air pollution of the site determines the hermetic enclosure of triple sealed glass with night air renewal by mechanical means, a solution that the large panels of glass allow because of its high insulation value, making possible a panoramic connection with the natural and artificial environment of Madrid.
Text.- Ábalos + Sentkiewicz arquitectos
CREDITS.-
Main architects.- Iñaki Ábalos, Renata Sentkiewicz, Alfonso Miguel.
Team collaborators.- Jorge Álvarez-Builla, Eva Gil, David Huang; Eduardo Barrón (structural engineer), AIGUASOL (energy and sustainability), Ineco 98-Raquel Laplana (M/E), Ignacio Blázquez (quality surveyor), Singlehome, S.A. (builder), Juan Von Knobloch (landscaping), B&V Interiores-Ángel Verdú (interior design).
Client.- Singlehome, S.A.
Date.- 2006-2009.
Project.- Office building and parking.
Budget.- 2.500.000 €.
Surface.- 4.865 m² (total area), 2.365 m² (superficie oficinas), 2.500 m² (parking Area).
Site.- C/Rafael Botí 24-26-28, Valdemarín Este, Madrid, Spain.
More information
AS+. ÁBALOS+SENTKIEWICZ ARQUITECTOS
Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos. Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz have worked together since 1999, first in Ábalos&Herreros and since 2006 in Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos. The work they develop stands out for proposing an original synthesis of technical rigor, formal imagination and discipline integration between architecture, environment and landscape, an approach they have named as “A Thermodynamic Beauty”. Their recent work has been collected in monographs as DA Architecture Doc. n.63, COAA, 2007, Abalos + Sentkiewicz arquitectos, (Thermodynamic beauty), 2G n.56 (GG, 2011) and Logroño Intermodal Station (Q estudio, 2012).
They have been awarded in many international competitions, being widely published and subject of individual (Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Cataluña, Barcelona. 2000, 2005; AA School, London. 2003; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. 2004; Fundación ICO, Madrid, 2005; Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. 2007; Universitá Roma Tre, Roma, 2009, Bienal de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires, 2011) and collective exhibitions (Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, Venice, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2012; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1995, 2005, 2006; Pavillon de l’arsenale, Paris, 2006; Ecological Urbanism, GSD Harvard University, 2009; Laboratorio Gran Vía, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, 2010; Proyecto Tierra, Alhóndiga, Bilbao 2010).
Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos, with offices in Boston and Madrid, stands out the contemporary scene as one of the few international firms able to combine a deep sense of authorship (all designs are personally directed by the partners of the firm) with a systematic collaborative attitude involving in the design process from the very first steps professionals of different fields, clients and institutions, something that reflects in the success of their built work, both in the urban realm and specialized media.
