The TANGRAM Arquitectura + Diseño studio has been commissioned to develop the integral reform of a building dedicated to offices located in a representative building in the historic center of the city of Zaragoza, on the banks of the Ebro river.

The reform aims to rationalize the interior space of the office and at the same time propose a distribution compatible with a new office model that mixes common spaces and independent areas, leaving behind the obsolete pre-existing distribution.
To achieve this new and clarifying interior layout, the TANGRAM Arquitectura + Diseño studio decided to develop the demolition of the confusing pre-existing layout. The result of the intervention is a large central lobby with the ability to clarify the interior layout and the transitions between the different rooms of the office.

The finishes of the central hall and the individual offices generate a gradation between spaces that helps to clarify the interior layout of the office. The wooden cladding of the central hall gives the space a great warmth that contrasts with the neutrality of the offices, the main rooms of the office, which maintain their proportions and recover the original floors and bedrooms as transitional elements.


 

Description of project by TANGRAM Arquitectura + Diseño

Located in a representative building in the city center, we find this office where the departure of the former tenant is a great opportunity to update the property. The pre-existing distribution is obsolete and is hardly compatible with the rental model sought, independent spaces with common areas.

It is a contained intervention that seeks to rationalize the space. The action is concentrated in the central area, where the demolition of the convoluted distribution generates a large hall that clarifies and sponges the access to the different rooms.

Both at the level of section and finishes, there is a gradation between the central space and the 'noble' offices which, serialized on the main façade, represent the great attraction of the property, so its value will be key in this project. The warmth of the lobby contrasts with the neutrality of the offices, more subject to the ephemeral interior design of each tenant. In these, the original proportions will be maintained, the bedrooms are incorporated as a transitional space and the original ornament is recovered including the colorful pavement whose small tiles will need to be deeply rehabilitated.

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TANGRAM Arquitectura + Diseño. Architect.- David Martínez García.
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Santiago Elía García, Javier Muñoz Escolano.
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Developer
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Petrito SL.
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78 Seventy Eight, Retail Construction.
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2020.
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Zaragoza, Spain.
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Trangram is a studio founded in 2015 in Zaragoza by the architects, David Martínez and Santiago Elía García.

David Martínez is an architect, with a specialization in building, from the Higher School of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2007). He completes his studies at the Graz University of Technology (Austria) where he obtains the GAD-AWARD 06/07 (Best Final Project 06/07). Certified Passivhaus Designer by the Passivhaus Institut in Darmstadt (2018).

In 2008 he settled in Zaragoza where, after collaborating with different reference studios, in 2013 he began to work independently to found in 2015, together with Santiago Elía, the TANGRAM Arquitectura + Diseño studio.

During this time he develops projects mainly at a private level, among which the houses “Sisallete” and “Iker & María” stand out, as well as “Entreolivos” (extension and reform of a single-family house). At the same time, it has developed important projects at the equipment level, highlighting the Housing Module Area and the Expansion Master Plan of the Hotel Balneario de Ariño (2017).

He has been selected and awarded in different international architectural ideas competitions, highlighting among them the proposals for the new Multifunctional Center in Cabezón de Pisuerga (2nd prize), the Extension of the Child Care Center in Palma de Mallorca (3rd prize) , the Rehabilitation of the Roquetas de Mar Food Market (2nd prize) and the new UNED headquarters in Barbastro (3rd prize).

In collaboration with the architect Santiago Elia, the SELF-SUFFICIENT SHOPS developed for the Zaragoza Transport Consortium (2017) stand out.

In collaboration with the architect Ángel Comeras, there are 80 Sheltered Homes for the Zaragoza Vivenda Municipal Society (2016) as well as the Expansion of the Utebo City Council (2016).

Santiago Elía García, is an architect from the University of Navarra, specializing in Urban Planning, and a Master's Degree in Research and Advanced Training in Architecture from the San Jorge University. He has developed his activity independently and as part of other reference studies. Currently and since 2010 he combines his professional performance as an architect with his work as a researcher, teacher and Head of Studies at the School of Architecture and Technology of the San Jorge University.

He brings extensive experience in work of various scales and locations. He has coordinated different multidisciplinary teams capable of proposing integrated solutions to complex problems. Driven by efficiency, creativity, knowledge of the trade and honesty, he assumes the social responsibility and the concept of service of the architect profession, helping to link needs and skills, resources and utility, desires and experience. His work has been awarded, published and exhibited on numerous occasions and in different media. He is a regular collaborator of the Zaragoza Area Transport Consortium, advising on design issues related to urban and interurban mobility in Zaragoza, this being one of his main lines of research. In addition, he is interested in other fields related to architectural graphic expression, thought and graphic narrative linked to the recent history of Spanish architecture.
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Published on: June 22, 2021
Cite: "Neutrality and warmth in the office. Refurbishment of PETRITO 32 offices by TANGRAM" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/neutrality-and-warmth-office-refurbishment-petrito-32-offices-tangram> ISSN 1139-6415
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