The Business Initiative Center of Posadas, located in Córdoba (Spain), was a project of concrete embedded between facades of two floors with a braided fence of natural rods that surrounds it.

The Posadas Business Initiative Center by Francisco J. López and Gudula Rudolf has been solved in a simple way with the use of only three materials that are concrete, wood and glass. The building opens to an inner courtyard with a gardened meadow and a longitudinal patio that allows ventilation, lighting and circulation.
 

Description of the project by Francisco J. López and Gudula Rudolf

In the middle of the local urban center, fited between different facades, stands a natural trenzadade  fence which reaches the roof of the neighboring building - the old Manuel Siurot School - which, after sliding gently on the pavement, unfolds to the walker of The street Miguel Hernández a semi-covered urban courtyard inspired in the bowers -shades and vine arbors - of the region.

As a backdrop to this great "open-air hall" (a solemn expression of a public interior) stands the elevation of a new equipment for training purposes and promotion of the business activities of the region that, perpendicularly arranged to the access road, extends until reaching the bottom of the plot that partially occupies the residential waste of the old school.

It is a compact concrete construction of two floors height, an unique cradle and constant section that allows the interior connection with the adjacent building and opens - by the south - to a great inner courtyard, where a garden meadow and a vertical bower which is similar to the one in the facade, tempering the chaotic image of walls and facades that envelop it, at the same time as a new urban public space block, the lung of the whole set.

At the same time, it serves as a counterpoint to a second longitudinal patio adjacent to the northern boundary wall that is visually connected to the previous patio through the main room of the ground floor, enabling cross ventilation and alternative routes, allowing the privacy of the upper floor and empowering the sifted illumination of their rooms.

Internally, the functionality of the construction is simple, with a reduced and transformable program solved with only three materials (concrete, glass and wood), whose nakedness and daring translate the strong external indoor expression.

Read more
Read less

More information

Label
Architects
Text
Francisco J. López and Gudula Rudolf.
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Collaborators
Text
Designers.- Francisco J. López - Gudula Rudolf.
Structure team.- Francisco J. López - Gudula Rudolf.
Subcontractor of carpentry.- Interiorismo Carpintería Las Quemadas SLL.
Subcontractor of electricity.- Electricidad Cuesta SL.
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Client
Text
Ayuntamiento de Posadas.
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Area
Text
Built area.- 268.18 m².
Built outdoor area.- 322.70 m².
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Budget
Text
€ 292,008.40.
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Dates
Text
9th July 2014- 10th March 2015.
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Gudula Rudolf was born in Ravensburg, Germany in 1968. She is an architect by the University of Stuttgart in 1995. She collaborates in the studio A Cruz-A.Ortiz (1997-99). She entered the Architecture and Urbanism Service of the Diputación de Córdoba (2000).

Francisco López was born in Cordoba, Spain in 1970. He is an architect by ETSA-Sevilla in 1995. He joined the Architecture and Urbanism Service of the Diputación de Córdoba (1996). Head of the Architecture and Urban Planning Service (2011-15).

Proyects.-
2001 Enlargement Consistorial House. Two towers
2004 Rehabilitation-Adaptation of Barracks to Youth Hostel. Conquest
2006 Rehabilitation-Adaptation Barracks Guardia Civil a Residencia de Ancianos. El Guijo
2006 Adaptation West Wing Former Prison to Regional Headquarters of Diputación. Pozoblanco
2007 Azuel House of Culture. Cardeña
2009 House-Museum. Posadas
2010 Municipal swimming pool. San Sebastián de los Ballesteros
2011 Antonio Gala Library. Guadalcazar
2011 Fire Department. La Carlota
2013 House of Culture. Cerro Muriano
2014 Posadas Business Hub

Awards.-
2004 Award Félix Hernández de Arquitectura-IX Edición (Enlargement Consistorial House. Two towers)
2007 Award-Ex Aequo Félix Hernández de Arquitectura-X Edición (Youth shelter de Conquista)
2010 Accésit Nueva Planta Premio Félix Hernández-XI Edición (House of Culture de Azuel)
2013 Award-Ex Aequo Félix Hernández de Arquitectura-XIII Edición (Library Antonio Gala)
2016 Award Félix Hernández de Arquitectura-XIV Edición (Posadas Business Hub)

Collaborators.-
Technical Team SAU-Pedroches
Technical Team SAU-Bajo Guadalquivir
Architects Collaborators:
Miguel Ángel Lázaro Marín
Rafael Alcántara Pedradas
(Park Firemen of La Carlota | Municipal Pool S.S. Ballesteros | Biblioteca Antonio Gala)
Read more
Published on: June 22, 2017
Cite: "Posadas Business Hub by Francisco J. López and Gudula Rudolf" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/posadas-business-hub-francisco-j-lopez-and-gudula-rudolf> ISSN 1139-6415
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...