Sustainable and Clever Space. Building Renovation for Youth Space by Ariasgarrido Arquitectos
20/01/2023.
[Valladolid] Spain
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
The new Espacio Joven Zona Norte, designed and renovated by architecture firm Ariasgarrido Arquitectos, led by Javier Arias and Susana Garrido, is located in the Rondilla neighbourhood, Valladolid North Zone, Spain.
This new place for culture, music and art is located in a former social building from the 1960s. The Rondilla neighbourhood, considered for a long time a "hive" neighbourhood, which emerged to solve housing problems during the strong migrations from the countryside to the city in the middle of the 20th century, has always had a great lack of facilities and public spaces. which is slowly being resolved.
The project was commissioned by the City Council to create a new space, intended for youngsters that allows them to meet, study, attend concerts, conferences, etc.
This new place for culture, music and art is located in a former social building from the 1960s. The Rondilla neighbourhood, considered for a long time a "hive" neighbourhood, which emerged to solve housing problems during the strong migrations from the countryside to the city in the middle of the 20th century, has always had a great lack of facilities and public spaces. which is slowly being resolved.
The project was commissioned by the City Council to create a new space, intended for youngsters that allows them to meet, study, attend concerts, conferences, etc.
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca
Site plan. Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos.
Ground floor plan. Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos.
First floor plan. Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos.
Southeast elevation and section. Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos.
Southwest elevation and section. Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos.
Previous situation. Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos.
The renovation concept by Ariasgarrido Arquitectos is clever and clearly articulated, in three levels, responding to a program designed so that young people up to 30 years old can get together and carry out different activities.
The design renovates the former building in two phases. Outside, the building gets a new image with a metal envelope in a dark colour combined with large windows, which overlaps the previous structure and improves its insulation.
Inside, the circular economy is promoted thanks to recycling, the design naked the cladding interior and partitions, empowering a “raw” look, showing a space simple and sustainable. In the words of the architects: it "allows for minimal maintenance of both the walls and the facilities, which are completely visible".
Inside is important to pay attention to the collaboration of a local graphic artist, Chucho Nieto, with some interesting large-scale collages and graffiti.
The design renovates the former building in two phases. Outside, the building gets a new image with a metal envelope in a dark colour combined with large windows, which overlaps the previous structure and improves its insulation.
Inside, the circular economy is promoted thanks to recycling, the design naked the cladding interior and partitions, empowering a “raw” look, showing a space simple and sustainable. In the words of the architects: it "allows for minimal maintenance of both the walls and the facilities, which are completely visible".
Inside is important to pay attention to the collaboration of a local graphic artist, Chucho Nieto, with some interesting large-scale collages and graffiti.
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca.
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca.
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca.
Project description by Ariasgarrido Arquitectos
The new Espacio Joven Zona Norte in Valladolid is located in the old social building of the public housing development "XXV Años de Paz", financed and built in the 1960s by the Ministry of Housing. The project aims to recover the building, abandoned for years and with a significant level of pathologies and deficiencies. It was decided by the City Council to locate the new northern headquarters of the Youth Space in it as a complement to the existing one in the south of the city. The Youth Space is an infrastructure designed for young people up to 30 years of age to meet, study, hold concerts and conferences, etc., in short: a place for culture, music and art.
The exterior intervention seeks the creation of a new metallic envelope, in sheet steel, which allows, on the one hand, to give the building a new image and, on the other hand, to increase its insulation, placing a new "coat" on the building.
Building Renovation for Youth Space by Arias Garrido Arquitectos. Photograph by ruheca.
The interior intervention, on the contrary, lies in the removal of most of the existing elements, partitions, coverings... returning to a "raw" state of the space. It is about implementing an idea of archaeological intervention, which allows the recovery of vestiges from the moment of construction of the building: old formwork, hidden factories, signs of work such as the numbering of the pillars, etc. This absence of coatings results in a simple and sustainable intervention, which also allows for minimal maintenance of both the walls and the facilities, which are completely visible.
The collaboration of a local graphic artist in the interior, with some large-scale collages and graffiti, complements the architecture by dotting certain areas, feeding the idea of the building as creative support.
A fibre cement roof was also removed to incorporate a large terrace of about 500m² into the complex, which allows outdoor activities linked to the centre's programming.
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Architects
Ariasgarrido Arquitectos. Lead architects.- Javier Arias Madero, Susana Garrido Calvo.
Project team
Beatriz Fernández García, Alberto López del Río, Lara Redondo González, Mª Eugenia Ruiz Heras (architects).
Collaborators
Chucho Nieto (graphic artist).
Client
Ayuntamiento de Valladolid.
Builders
Haral 12, Prieto Sierra
Area
1,207m². (Ground floor.- 833 m². / First floor.- 204 m². / Basement.- 170 m²).
Dates
Winners in contest.- 2016.
Completion of works.- 2019.
Completion of works.- 2019.
Location
C/ Olmo, 62, 47010, Valladolid, Spain.
Budget
Approx.- €1.6 mill.
Photography
ruheca.- Rubén Hernández, Elena Rodríguez.
Javier Arias, Susana Garrido. ariasgarrido ARQUITECTOS
ariasgarrido ARQUITECTOS is an architecture studio based in Valladolid directed by the architects Javier Arias and Susana Garrido.
Javier Arias. Valladolid 1972, ETSAV Architect 1998. He has been working as an architect since 1998. He has participated in various research topics and has given lectures at different institutions. In 2012 he joined the Department of Architectural Constructions of the School of Architecture of Valladolid as a professor. In 2016 he received his PhD in Architecture defending his thesis «The construction of the dream: Surrealist poetics in the architecture of Rem Koolhaas».
Susana Garrido. Valladolid 1971. Architect ETSAV 2000. Since the year 2000, he has been working with Javier Arias in the development of projects of all kinds. He has worked on various research projects.
Javier Arias. Valladolid 1972, ETSAV Architect 1998. He has been working as an architect since 1998. He has participated in various research topics and has given lectures at different institutions. In 2012 he joined the Department of Architectural Constructions of the School of Architecture of Valladolid as a professor. In 2016 he received his PhD in Architecture defending his thesis «The construction of the dream: Surrealist poetics in the architecture of Rem Koolhaas».
Susana Garrido. Valladolid 1971. Architect ETSAV 2000. Since the year 2000, he has been working with Javier Arias in the development of projects of all kinds. He has worked on various research projects.
