White and clear-cut to enter Calamonte. Integral Development Center ‘Centro’ by NGNP architects

The building designed by NGNP arquitectos is located on the edge of the city, between the agricultural area and the beginning of the industrial area that gives access to the Extremadura city of Calamonte, in the province of Badajoz, Spain.

NGNP arquitectos design a double volume for this center of entrepreneurs, of which it emphasizes its compact image and sharp towards the outside and its interior opening to a narrow patio, very suitable to obtain shade and protection against the sun. Its rotundity and clarity make you see how these semi-industrial buildings are good transition elements that generate a good image when they are located as entrance doors to a city.

Description of project by NGNP arquitectos

Integral Development Center ‘Centro’ by NGNP arquitectos

The plot is located in the urban edge of the small town of Calamonte, on a land platform that visually dominates the surrounding farmland. From this location, which gives it a special value in the city-field-landscape relationship, leave the main formal and conceptual decisions that inspire the project. Furthermore, the presence of the building far from the road access routes, the A-66 Highway and Road to Seville, also causes the building necessarily respond to them. Therefore, the roof emerges as the fundamental element of the design. Seen from afar, the building completes its compact thanks to her presence, dialoguing with the landscape of hills surrounding the place.

Closeup view, the roof provides greater height spaces that require it, such as the entrance, assembly hall, etc ... likewise providing dynamism and special character to interior environment. The building is implanted in the plot, rectangular proportion and north-south orientation, adapting to their longitudinal shape.

The plan generator concept is opening a crack-courtyard on its central axis, running through its entire length, becoming the main space of the project. In the north facade, this crack configured public access between volumes, and after overcoming the lobby, continues to be characterized as a more introspective space.

The required program, consisting of administrative applications support entrepreneurs, organized with greater programmatic rationality and economy circulations, ensuring the required flexibility. Applications are grouped into three distinct units: the business incubator, support offices and meeting rooms, arranged around the central hall, center of gravity of the building that facilitates quick visitor orientation.

The concise palette of materials intended to reinforce the geometric power of volume: in addition to the white outer shell, finished with a liquid polyurethane membrane, only found concrete ceilings and floors and varying degrees of transparency, ranging from glass to cellular polycarbonate one or two layers, which qualifiesnatural light and control direct sunlight.

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Architects

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NGNP arquitectos (José Antonio Plaza Cano, Juan Carlos Herrera Pueyo and Fernando Garrido Naranjo).

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Collaborators

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María Luisa Lorenzo Fernández (structure).
Estanislao Fernández Herrera (MPE engineer).
Antonio Vallejo López (quantity surveyor).

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Contractor

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Coalfe Construcciones Extremeñas S.L.

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Client

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Diputación Provincial de Badajoz.

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Location

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Carretera de Sevilla s/n, Calamonte (Badajoz).

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Area

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Build area 788.90 m² .

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Budget

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648,013.67 € (PEM).

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Dates

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May 2013 (competition).
March 2014 (project).
2014-2015 (works).

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Photography

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Jesús Granada.

JOSE ANTONIO PLAZA, JUAN CARLOS HERRERA, ENRIQUE NARANJO NGNP arquitectos

NGNP is a Seville-based architecture practice led by José Antonio Plaza, Juan Carlos Herrera, Enrique Naranjo.

José Antonio Plaza. He was born in Seville (Spain) in 1977. Architect graduated from the Seville School of Architecture in 2004. He is a collegiate architect He is a collegiate architect nº 5490 of the Official College of Architects of Seville and has had a revalidated degree for professional practice in Mexico since 2013. He student collaborated in the studio of José Mª Jiménez and Ángel L. Candelas in Seville, with whom he later worked as an associate architect during the period 2004-2009, developing an intense professional production. In 2009 he established his studio, NGNP Arquitectos, in Seville. His work has focused on competitions and public architecture, having obtained numerous first prizes and various mentions, thanks to which he has acquired significant experience in the design, development, and management of large-scale and complex projects.

Juan Carlos Herrera. He was born in Seville (Spain) in 1984, graduating from the Seville School of Architecture in 2007, being the first graduate of the 2002-2003 promotion, and obtaining the second-best record among graduates in 2006-2007. Collegiate in Seville 6,159. He embarks on a professional career from the second year of his degree, carrying out both his own and group projects and for professional studios, taking an interest in architecture criticism. As a student, he collaborates in different prestigious architecture studios, such as those of Antonio González Cordón, Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, or Ignacio de la Peña (2007-2010) in Seville or BMS, in Istanbul. During 2007-2008 he studied the Official Master of Architecture and Historical Heritage. He combines his professional activity with the development of his Doctoral Thesis, on the children's teaching space for a pedagogy based on Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. In 2013 he joined NGNP as an associate.

Enrique Naranjo. Born in Seville (Spain) in 1980. Architect graduated from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Seville in 2006. He is a collegiate architect no. 5940 of the Official College of Architects of Seville. As a student, he collaborated in the studies of Ubaldo García and Manuel Gutierrez de Rueda. In 2009 he established his studio, NGNP Arquitectos, in Seville. In 2010-2011 he studied the Official Master's Degree in Sustainable City and Architecture at the University of Seville. Parallel to his professional activity, he developed intense theoretical and research work, reflected in numerous articles, publications, and presentations. He is currently developing his Doctoral Thesis.

Published on: May 18, 2017

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