The metal structure, the roof made with a composite slab, the supplies and the enclosures in glass, improve significantly the conditions of the workers and the perception of the industry area, where the natural lighting that now penetrates to all corners, - reducing the energy consumption, becomes the protagonist of the project.
Description of project by Óscar Miguel Ares
In the peripheries of our cities it is not unusual that the industry is just construction. The manufacturing processes mark the accuracy and the calibration of the dimensioning of structures and enclosures. The logic of functionality does not allow for arbitrariness. The factory is precise, mechanical, optimal; If it is not adapted to the productive needs the industrial building disappears, is forgotten - closes!
An old and abandoned warehouse was renovated, adapting it to new high-tech machines, workers and responding to the requirements of more light, space and air was the challenge that our studio had to face. It meant transforming a banal warehouse from a forgotten industrial estate into a new installation in which clarity and luminosity prevail. Our sight - and proposal to the customer - was to reconvert the traditional industrial space by providing a new atmosphere that seeks the benefit of the people working inside.
The old facade presented serious problems of stability. Consequently was replaced by new porous and translucent facade skins. The traditional industrial facade of sandwich panel and brick walls was replaced by various overlapped layers of glass, polycarbonate and perforated steel sheet, which allows daylight to filter through to the interior spaces of the warehouse and offices. The intentional creation of this new industrial atmosphere, based on natural light, improves the energy performance and the well-being of workers who are not subjected to cold and artificial clarity.
In the offices, the structure and materials are sincerely shown, replacing all opaque preexisting perimeters by glass. Structure, the mixed concrete decking slab and installations are left raw, visible and exposed. The wide glass walls allow the visual contact between the warehouse working area and the technical office; this relation is essential for a correct execution and allows the inclusion of light not only from the street but also from the interior of the warehouse.
2015 
2024.
