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This building is an integral part of a special urban volumetric plan defined by three new emblematic buildings for the city: the ME Hotel and the Hines D123 office building, carried out by Dominique Perrault and AIA, and two residential buildings, one of them being an 80-metre-high tower, located at the intersection of Diagonal Avenue and Pere IV Street, made by AIA for Castro Construcciones.
The project consists of the construction of a building the uniqueness of which lies in its height and shape. A massive volume of rectangular proportions, which is divided in half and cantilevered eight metres above the street, creating a terrace on the opposite side, energising the form of pure lines through the balance of the building.
The façade envelops the building with a layer of bright lines, which is closed on the sides through black glass, and is revealed on the main faces through horizontal mirror stripes, playing with the viewing areas and the interior reflections and exteriors. This composition is designed in a proportion of opaque and transparent spaces that allow a diaphanous sensation in the interior, with a good control of solar radiation from the exterior.
With a height of 51 metres and a total constructed area of 19,600 m2, the ground floor of the building is occupied by two commercial premises connected to the basement, and by the access and hall of the vertical communications core. The twelve floors are entirely intended to work as offices.
Diaphanous floors of 800.00 m2, with spans of 14 metres, give the building optimal functional flexibility and multiple distribution possibilities. This has been made possible using a post-tensioned concrete floor system that has allowed the creation of completely open and spacious areas.
The basic operation is that of two central cores of vertical communication, which contains four elevators and two stairs. On each side of the stairs are the spaces, where all the specific plant facilities are located, together with the risers and air extraction ducts, as well as the sanitary services of each floor. The air conditioning system chosen is VRV with recovery to be able to pass cold or heat from the spaces on the east façade to the west without energy costs.
Below ground level, there are 8,800 m2 occupied by a car park that is developed by a system of half floors, on four levels, and has a capacity for 248 vehicles.
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Me Hotel
AIA Arquitectura i Instal·lacions, Franco Corada, Virginia Figueras Costa, Joan Carles Navarro Casamitjana, Dominique Perrault, Albert Salazar Junyent
The ME hotel and the adjacent office building form a complex of two equivalent buildings in form and materials that are formally sought and complemented, located at one of the key junctions of Poblenou, which form Diagonal Avenue and Pere IV. The two buildings are separated by Lope de Vega Street, but neither is taken into account for their alignment. The hotel is lined with Pere IV and the offices on Diagonal. Both have very abstract volumes with certain common features that form a unitary set consisting of two sets (each of them is a building) of two overlapping prisms that slide together. When sliding, the upper prism is partially cantilevered. The office building is a screen on the Diagonal. Its cantilever is projected towards Lope de Vega Street. The hotel building, the more unique of the two, is a very slender skyscraper made up of two binoculars, one of which is four stories above the street. The cantilever marks the entrance to the building and opens onto Peter IV. So, the two cantilevers do not look at each other, but they are perceived as a single intervention when they look at each other. The treatment of both building’s façades is unitary, based on glazed materials or very smooth metals, looking for reflective surfaces that allow the unitary reading of the volume. The hotel’s windows are arranged in a checkered pattern to make it easier to read the façade as a unit and not to distort the plans. The hotel does not have any plinths and its façade treatment crashes against the floor in an undifferentiated manner. It is noteworthy that the separate buildings and the unit they form are not designed to be viewed from the front, but for the oblique views that force the streets in which they are located. Even the frontal view from the other side of the Diagonal leaves one of the two buildings oblique and reinforces the sculptural character of the whole. The complex is complemented by a service building located behind the hotel, solved in the same language, which due to being aligned with Peter IV and misaligned with Lope de Vega, the street where it leads, forms a square of quite attractive access from which there are some very interesting views of the building. -
123 Diagonal Office Building
AIA Arquitectura i Instal·lacions, Joan Carles Navarro Casamitjana, Dominique Perrault, Albert Salazar Junyent
This building is an integral part of a special urban volumetric plan defined by three new emblematic buildings for the city: the ME Hotel and the Hines D123 office building, carried out by Dominique Perrault and AIA, and two residential buildings, one of them being an 80-metre-high tower, located at the intersection of Diagonal Avenue and Pere IV Street, made by AIA for Castro Construcciones. The project consists of the construction of a building the uniqueness of which lies in its height and shape. A massive volume of rectangular proportions, which is divided in half and cantilevered eight metres above the street, creating a terrace on the opposite side, energising the form of pure lines through the balance of the building. The façade envelops the building with a layer of bright lines, which is closed on the sides through black glass, and is revealed on the main faces through horizontal mirror stripes, playing with the viewing areas and the interior reflections and exteriors. This composition is designed in a proportion of opaque and transparent spaces that allow a diaphanous sensation in the interior, with a good control of solar radiation from the exterior. With a height of 51 metres and a total constructed area of 19,600 m2, the ground floor of the building is occupied by two commercial premises connected to the basement, and by the access and hall of the vertical communications core. The twelve floors are entirely intended to work as offices. Diaphanous floors of 800.00 m2, with spans of 14 metres, give the building optimal functional flexibility and multiple distribution possibilities. This has been made possible using a post-tensioned concrete floor system that has allowed the creation of completely open and spacious areas. The basic operation is that of two central cores of vertical communication, which contains four elevators and two stairs. On each side of the stairs are the spaces, where all the specific plant facilities are located, together with the risers and air extraction ducts, as well as the sanitary services of each floor. The air conditioning system chosen is VRV with recovery to be able to pass cold or heat from the spaces on the east façade to the west without energy costs. Below ground level, there are 8,800 m2 occupied by a car park that is developed by a system of half floors, on four levels, and has a capacity for 248 vehicles. -
EU Mies Award
NominatedMostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Edificis d'Ús No Residencial de Promoció PrivadaRelated Works
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