Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas
04/04/2018.
[Granada] Spain
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metalocus, PABLO SEBASTIÁN
Located in the Technological Campus of Health Sciences of Granada, the new headquarters of Neuron Bio, colors play a fundamental role as they are identifying elements of the laboratory they represent.
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Interior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Interior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Staircase. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Staircase. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Staircase. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Staircase. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Staircase. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Staircase. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Staircase. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Staircase. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Interior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Exterior view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Rooftop view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Rooftop view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Rooftop view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Rooftop view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Night view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Night view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Night view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Night view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Night view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Courtyard view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Courtyard view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Courtyard view. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas. Photograph © Fernando Alda
Site plan. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas
Ground floor plan. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas
First floor plan. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas
Second floor plan. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas
Third floor plan. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas
Section. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas
Section. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas
Program. Headquarters of Neuron Bio by Antonio Cayuelas
The project designed by Cayuelas Arquitectos consists of a superposition of boxes where the laboratory units are located. The interior communications are made through a large conduit located in the main entrance that adapts to the irregularities of the building and that connects all the floors.
Description of project by Cayuelas Arquitectos
Location
The project for Neuron Bio new headquarters, a biomedical, pharmacological and technological research Enterprise, is placed in a growth area of the city called “Campus de las Ciencias” (Health Sciences Campus) in Granada, in the south of the city, beside the highway. The plot is located in an old field of “Vega” (the orchard near the town) with a smooth topography near a river called “Monachil”. It is an inner piece of land result of subdivides a big plot in four smaller. The main frontage, with north facing, opens to Avicena Street and Monachil River and the south one looks to a public pedestrian space that will be built in the near future.
Building’s design it’s strongly conditioned by urban laws which force relationship between close buildings by lateral setback in proportion with building’s height, causing terracing in ziggurat’s shape.
General description
The project is conceived as a set of overlapping boxes which shelter each unity of laboratories and other program defined uses. These boxes adapt their position to the resulting shape of the existing regulation laws, which, as has been mentioned, demand a lateral setting back. This point, the vertical overlapping, works in order to adapt the building volume to the floor-plot and to the main face, the one in front of Avicena Street.
In the north frontage, a large vertical conduit for facilities and their connections is generated, closed with folding galvanized steel slats; this conduit crosses the nine floors, five of them above the ground and four underground. The facilities area expands in the third floor from the north to the south face, where a two floored piece is generated, where equipment and large facilities are housed. Beside de north vertical conduit of galvanized steel slats, a double height box is located, housing the manufacturing plant. Due to the technical complexity of the working methods facilities design, these have been carefully studied for its full accessibility and maintenance.
In addition, in order to improve the natural illumination of the inner spaces and boxes, a central courtyard is placed for organizing communication areas, day-light and crossed looks between the different work levels: every working area and laboratory have daylight illumination at least from two positions. Two lifts are placed in the south and north sides of courtyard, one of them is a hoist; the courtyard is used also for vertical facilities maintenance. Enclosing the lifts, strong concrete walls have been built to solve the seismic problem of Granada. Finally, the main stair connects every floor-plan, moving and adapting itself to the lateral shape of the building, with the setting back in the boxes caused by de urban laws.
The color-use plays a double role: on one hand, the color identifies the different kind of laboratories and program areas, giving them a conceptual visibility; on the other hand, it gives optimism to the building image, necessary for investigation development. Color is associated to the contents of each box, which are built with colored glass and fiber-reinforced-cement sheeting.
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Architects
Cayuelas arquitectos, Antonio Cayuelas Porras
Proyect team
Basic Proyect.- Antonio Cayuelas Porras, Daniel Cano Expósito, Ramiro Villegas Erce, Nicolás Millán del Barrio, Ornelia Mesa Rodríguez, Elisabeth Sánchez Clement, Elena Oliver Saiz. Proyect execution.- Antonio Cayuelas Porras, Daniel Cano Expósito, Nicolás Millán del Barrio, Esther Chung Rivas, Rosario Carmona Campos, Ornelia Mesa Rodríguez.
Collaborators
Architect drafter of the project and Project Manager.- Antonio Cayuelas Porras. Coordinating architect.- Daniel Cano. Quantity surveyor and Director of execution.- Manuel Martín Herrero. Facilities Consulting.- Isoner. Structure Consulting.- Edartec. Healht and Security.- Baluarte. QA.- Applus. Locksmith, model and furniture.- Talleres Vázquez. Facade.- Insifal. Facade Glasses.- Tvitec. Carpentry.- Laminex, Technal. Asbestos cement.- Euronit. Air conditioning.- Microclima. Clean Rooms.- Iguña. Electricity.- Graneva. Laboratory gases.- Air Liquid. Screens.- Sitab. Soils Vinyl and Ceilings.- Armstrong. Equipament Lab.- Matachana. Laboratory furniture.- Burdinola. Linear lighting.- ScreenLuz
Antonio Cayuelas Porras
Antonio Cayuelas Porras. Andalusian architect who was born in Granada, grew up in Cordoba and has studied and lived in Seville (1979-2014). He currently teaches and works in Granada, where has presented his doctoral thesis "rooms of shadow and air. Transitional spaces in mediterranean architecture".
In 1990 started the activity of his Studio, cayuelas arquitectos. He has presented more than 70 competitions, which has won and built more than one dozen. In 1991 received the Architecture Award of the COA of Western Andalusia, in the first work category. In 2004 he received the second prize of the Association of architects of Huelva to works constructed by the Rehabilitation of the Town Hall of Riotinto. He has been selected in the Barcelona Spring Design in 1992 and in the VI International Biennial of Landscape Architecture. In 2016 the building of headquarters of the Campus of Linares has been selected by the XIII Biennial Spanish Architecture and Urbanism. Equally, his patent of mobile partitions has been selected finalist in the field of product design at the above-mentioned Biennial.
Parallel has a wide experience in most small scale design, the interior design and the exhibitions. As a designer he want to contribute to improve the habitat of the people or to solve many situations not addressed by the industry. As result has patented solutions for mobile walls for houses, doors enclosures, screens, exhibitors... etc. It is currently adding a significant number of new furniture and product designs. Some are already in production such as the Andalusian saddle for ADIC (Avanca, Portugal), the complete equipment for libraries series García Lorca for Metalundia (Granada) and the series of office for CUBICO MOBILIARIO (Vigo).
His works include the City Hall of Minas de Riotinto, Technological Scientific Campus of Linares and the new headquarters of Neuron Bio at the Health Campus, Granada. Still committed to rehabilitate and recover our huge heritage, to build homes, generic and personal, and fond of new technologies, but contrasted.
In 1990 started the activity of his Studio, cayuelas arquitectos. He has presented more than 70 competitions, which has won and built more than one dozen. In 1991 received the Architecture Award of the COA of Western Andalusia, in the first work category. In 2004 he received the second prize of the Association of architects of Huelva to works constructed by the Rehabilitation of the Town Hall of Riotinto. He has been selected in the Barcelona Spring Design in 1992 and in the VI International Biennial of Landscape Architecture. In 2016 the building of headquarters of the Campus of Linares has been selected by the XIII Biennial Spanish Architecture and Urbanism. Equally, his patent of mobile partitions has been selected finalist in the field of product design at the above-mentioned Biennial.
Parallel has a wide experience in most small scale design, the interior design and the exhibitions. As a designer he want to contribute to improve the habitat of the people or to solve many situations not addressed by the industry. As result has patented solutions for mobile walls for houses, doors enclosures, screens, exhibitors... etc. It is currently adding a significant number of new furniture and product designs. Some are already in production such as the Andalusian saddle for ADIC (Avanca, Portugal), the complete equipment for libraries series García Lorca for Metalundia (Granada) and the series of office for CUBICO MOBILIARIO (Vigo).
His works include the City Hall of Minas de Riotinto, Technological Scientific Campus of Linares and the new headquarters of Neuron Bio at the Health Campus, Granada. Still committed to rehabilitate and recover our huge heritage, to build homes, generic and personal, and fond of new technologies, but contrasted.
