The Arizala building, design by Ana Gallardo and Alejandra Carreras, founders of AVA Studio, is an apartment block that offers a textil solution for its envelope, it is built by metal sections for dry construction on which a tensioned fabric is placed. This allows to create a façade that acts as a variable and adaptable filter as needed. The project uses the whole site area to set up a number of apartments with natural ventilation and good sun exposure which serve for different types of families as well as for offices.
Description of the project by AVA Studio scp
The new building designed by AVA Studio is located Arizala Street , Barcelona, and it proposes a textile façade inspired by fabrics scaffolds for rehabilitations of buildings. The stiffness of the composition and modulating facade contrasts with the apparent lightness and delicacy of the fabrics, which tighten forming a visual filter that attenuates the hardness of the city.
The main façade of the building has a tensioned screen panels composed by a few racks of aluminum to allow the last tightened just pressing the side bolts. This panels 290x80cm, provide a kind and unique look, act like a solar filter and provide the necessary privacy to its users without preventing the entry of light.
Its textile component of thread with PVC inside prevents the material from heating and the transmission of the heat inside. These modules also function as an umbrella when they are opened to the outside. Because of the orientation of the façade, during the winter the opened panels protect from sunlight in the morning, while during the summer they are closed to protect from the sun at its highest point.
With this project, AVA Studio also provides an innovation from the point of view of construction. The walls of the whole building has been built with a dry construction system based on aluminum sections and plasterboard panels from one wrought to the next one.
Maximum optimization of its interiors.- In addition to its facade, the new building also stands out for taking full advantage of a site of reduced dimensions. It has five floors and each of them has three apartments of 60 square meters for rent.
The internal distribution is another strength point of the project. Ana Gallardo and Alejandra Carreras have designed apartments that respond to current needs of couples and families with children, but also of those who use them as offices. All apartments have cross ventilation and offer the maximum width of façade for the living room area, achieving a good sun exposure and the possibility of natural ventilation.
CREDITS, DATA SHEET.-
Architect.- AVA Studio scp.
Collaborators.- Ruarti xxl slu (Promoter), Copcisa (Contractor), Durmi (Façade), Rosell Giner associats (quantity surveyor), Prisotec (Engineering), eskubi-turro arquitectes (Structure).
Area.- total gross area 2.000 sqm (underground parking.-450 sqm).
Budget.- 950€/sqm.
Location.- Arizala st, Barcelona, Spain.
