Winners of the PREMIO COAM 2016 - COLEGIO OFICIAL DE ARQUITECTOS DE MADRID and considered as 'The Best glazed facade' as well, this Administrative building designed in 2007, completes the work that Corrales and Molezún erected in the same plot years before.
Bayón Arquitectos, with their  new Administrative Building for the General Management of Assets of the State from the Ministry of Economy at the 58th Torrelaguna Street in Madrid, have turned out to be the winners of the COAM Award 2016 - Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid.

The building, also awarded during the Glass Architecture Awards by the Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España  Saint-Gobain Glass company, as 'The Best glazed facade', is located in the great void left by the preexistent building by the well-known architects Corrales and Molezún, increasing the built area and giving a new image to the complex.
 
 

Description of the project by Bayón Arquitectos

The 2007 proposal for the new Administrative Building for the General Management of Assets of the State, represented a tribute to the architecture of the building Corrales and Molezún that once was home to the Reader's Digest with which it shares plot, today very upset though preserved in its main aspects. The competition was to design a new building, independent of the previous one, which was able, with the ordinance enforcement, to absorb the remaining buildable site area, only connecting the new with the old building by a vestibular module at the ground floor, without touching or steping on it.

If the Corrales - Molezún project acted on a large plot with a synthetic architecture based on two twinned parallelepipeds of square plant, all thel remaining buildable area of the site is now concentrated in a single abstract and content prism located in the center of the remaining inside space. The open floor plan with square modulation of the old building, is reproduced in the new in an exact square isotropic mesh repeated throughout the metric of the building whose double façade makes it a double glass prism that contains itself and allows ventilation between the two light and gently translucent layers, always seeking for the abstraction of a polyhedron of pure equal facades whose outer skin is a levitating sheet which does not reach the ground.

That double transventilated facade, protected to the inside with both automatic or manual blinds behaves as a "thinking" element to the service of the building in its solar behaviour, thermal and light adaptation. The search for a rigorous lower energy expenditure relative with administrative life and working conditions inside, at different times of day, seasons and orientations of its plants, with minimal maintenance. Its abstraction and the purity of the whole set are obtained through multiple details and individual constructive solutions, as the best guarantee of its correctness, become invisible at last, imersingit all in an order and clarity of visual aspects both to the exterior and to the interior.

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Bayón Arquitectos
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Ministry of Economy
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Fachadas Estructurales Riventi, S.A.
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Tvitec System, S.L. / La Veneciana de Saint Gobain.
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58th Torrelaguna St. Madrid, Spain
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Mariano Bayón is an architect from Technical University of Madrid (ETSAM) since 1967. He won a NAtional Urbanism Award in 1981 and a National Architecture Award in 1996, among many other distinctions. Moreover, he has developed a wide carreer as a teacher at Technical University of Madrid. Among the many collaborations made in his practice, the following ones are to highlight: 30 Housing units for IVIMA in Fuencarral (2003), Two habitational towers in Salburúa (2003), 132 houses for the EMVS in Vallecas (2003), The new hostelry at the Poblet Monastry (2004), or the new Price circus in Madrid (2004).
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Published on: October 13, 2016
Cite: "Office Building for the General Management of Assets of the State by Bayón Arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/office-building-general-management-assets-state-bayon-arquitectos> ISSN 1139-6415
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