Madrid-based studio Ignacio Borrego Arquitectos has designed a special structure on the roof of a Madrid building. A photovoltaic pergola that generates electricity for the self-consumption of an office and also generates a shaded and open space on the roof for its employees.

One of the advantages of the structure is that it is removable and also reduces the overheating of the roof in the harsh Madrid summer.
Ignacio Borrego Arquitectos designed the structure based on the only four possible points, with a structure of 70mm circular steel tubes, on which the rest of the structure is raised with lightweight profiles bolted on site and assembled without the need for any auxiliary means.

The whole set is reversible. All joints are removable and was assembled directly by the authors of the project.
 

Project description by Ignacio Borrego Arquitectos

Sun and shade. The photovoltaic pergola is a supporting structure for solar panels that generate electricity for self-consumption in an office and at the same time shade an outdoor rest area for its employees. Additionally, sun overheating of the roof is reduced.

The structure rests on the only four possible points that had been planned on the roof for future installations and is made with light galvanized steel profiles for plasterboard partitions.

For its assembly it has been necessary to weld two curved circular tubes of 70mm steel that support the effort of the wind and transfer the loads to the four support points. The rest of the structure is lightweight profiles bolted on site and assembled without the need for any auxiliary means.

The whole set is reversible. All joints are removable.

The interior furniture of the pergola is also made with the same profiles and recycled furniture.

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Ignacio Borrego Arquitectos (Ignacio Borrego, Federica Masia, Federico Arca Sedda).
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Structure.- Ignacio Borrego Arquitectos.
Solar instalation.- Lodeal Energía.
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Tasvalor.
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Ignacio Borrego Arquitectos (Ignacio Borrego, Federica Masia, Federico Arca Sedda, Gonzálo Rvera, Héctor Turuhpial y Jonander Rodríguez).

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Footprint.- 55m².
Shade area.- 25m².
Weight.- 57kg/m².
Installed power.- 8,19 kWp.
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Assembly date.- 2021.
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€12,500.00
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Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzman + Rocio Romero).
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Ignacio Borrego. Dipl. Arch., Ph.D Ignacio Borrego was born in Madrid and graduated in 2000 at the School Architecture of Madrid receiving the Best Graduate Architect Prize in ETSAM‐UPM of 2000, and also achieved the first National Prize 2000 by the Ministry of Education of Spain.

His thesis, directed by Federico Soriano, entitled “Informed matter. Deformation, conformation and codification, the three ways of storing information in matter” has obtained Ph.D degree with honours (sobresaliente cum laude) at the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2012, and the First Prize at the X Phd Thesis competition Arquia Foundation.

He co-founded dosmasuno arquitectos in 2003 with Néstor Montenegro and Lina Toro and Ignacio Borrego Architects in 2014. He has won 36 national and international prizes, and several awards for completed buildings, and he is co-director of Arquitectos, the official architectural magazine of the National Architects Association of Spain (Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España-CSCAE) since 2006.

In 2016 he is appointed Full Professor at Technische Universität Berlin, chair of Architekturdarstellung und Gestaltung (Architectural Representation and Design), and director of CoLab/Berlín, a research space in connection with CoLaboratorio, founded in Madrid in 2009 together with A.Ribot, J.G.Germán y D.G.Setién.
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Published on: February 8, 2022
Cite: "Sun and shade. Photovoltaic Shade by Ignacio Borrego Arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
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