Research Center "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects
16/05/2019.
[BCN] Spain
metalocus, MARÍA REDONDO
metalocus, MARÍA REDONDO
Guallart Architects design “Valldaura Labs” project. It deals with the rehabilitation of a nineteenth century farmhouse in a Self-Sufficient Habitat Laboratory of the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
"Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
Aerial view. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Aerial view. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Ground floor plan. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Level 1 plan. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Level 2 plan. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Roof plan. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Plans. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Section. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Section. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Detail. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Diagram. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Diagram. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
Diagram. "Valldaura Labs" by Guallart Architects.
The project of Guallart Architects is located in a farmhouse that was in very bad condition and where the spaces added to the pre-existence are buried with the purpose of not having a great impact on the landscape.
Description of project by Guallart Architects
Valldaura Labs is a project to create a Self-Sufficient Habitat Laboratory.promoted by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. It is located in the center of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, in the Park natural of Collserola.
The project is developed in a three-storey farmhouse built in 1888 that was found it in very bad condition. The strategy has been to build all the new spaces buried under and around the farmhouse, in order not to have impact on the landscape while at the same time providing new vitality to the complex.
The building includes rooms for students and teachers of the Master in IAAC Advanced Ecological Buildings on the upper floors, dining room and space for the staff on the ground floor that have been faithfully rehabilitated maintaining the original structure.
The Green Fab Lab has been built under the plaza, using large-scale brick vaults and allowing the entry of natural light. The carpentry and a biomass plant that feeds energetically the building is situated next to it.
For the rehabilitation of the building, old brick and wood have been recycled in order to give a material continuity to the complex. The windows have been manufactured and rehabilitated in the carpentry of the laboratory. In the buildings has been developed the Energrid project, which is based on the Internet of Energy developed from the distributed production of energy and the measurement of small units of consumption. There have also been arranged five deposit of water of various qualities (drinking, covers, squares, gray and black) with the order to apply the principle of the Internet of Water.
But the project goes beyond the limits of the walls of the farmhouse: the goal is develop a self-sufficient habitat that produce all the energy that is needed, which produces great part of food and which generates wood from the forest for the construction of structures and furniture and for the biomass plant itself. In this way a holistic vision is developed for the building and their environment.
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Architects
Guallart Architects. Vicente Guallart, María Díaz.
Collaborators
Fernando Meneses, Daniela Frogheri. Structures.- Ionut Conseco. Energy.- Oscar Aceves. Water.- Jochen Scheerer. Information.- Guillem Camprodon.
Promoter
Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Area
2.000 m²
Dates
Original Project Phase 1.- 2010. Expanded project Phase 2.- 2013. Completion Phase 1 and 2.- 2018. Completion date of the work.- September 2018.
Venue
Horta a Cerdanyola road, km 7.8. Cerdanyola del Valles Barcelona
Vicente Guallart
Vicente Guallart (b. Valencia 1963) chief architect of the city of Barcelona and general director of Urban Habitat since 2011-2015. Guallart have been founder of Guallart Architects (1993) and of IAAC (Institute of Advanced Architecture in Catalunya) (2001).
His most relevant and recent projects includes, among others, Sociópolis in Valencia: an innovative housing project for urban and environmental development with projects by international architects; Sharing Bloks in Gandía: a residence for students, the first in Spain where the dynamical relation between private and shared areas can generate a continuous re-configuration and extension of the spaces to live; Fugee Port and Keelung Port in Taiwan. He is author of Geologics (Actar), and co-author of the Metapolis dictionary of Advanced Architecture and Hypercatalonia.
His most relevant and recent projects includes, among others, Sociópolis in Valencia: an innovative housing project for urban and environmental development with projects by international architects; Sharing Bloks in Gandía: a residence for students, the first in Spain where the dynamical relation between private and shared areas can generate a continuous re-configuration and extension of the spaces to live; Fugee Port and Keelung Port in Taiwan. He is author of Geologics (Actar), and co-author of the Metapolis dictionary of Advanced Architecture and Hypercatalonia.
MARÍA DÍAZ - MDBA & GUALLART ARCHITECTS
María Díaz (Bilbao, 1972) founder of MDBA, with a career of more than 15 years, leads a young team that integrates architects, designers and professionals of different disciplines. There, she Works to develop projects of diverse scales that promote the self-sufficient development in the territory, including projects of buildings, housings and master plans.
The study MDBA, based in Barcelona, is characterized by the search and creation of spaces that cause emotions and where to place furniture and decoration’s elements that are interrelated with these spaces.
Every project is a challenge, in which we interpret the needs of the client and we look to get the maximum benefit of location or of the existing space. We look for the appropriate character in every space, always bearing in mind the materiality, the heat of the materials, and of the work of the craftsmen that we incorporate in our work, with the result of spaces with "soul".
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