Projects Wanted - High Voltage Laboratoty, IDOM / ACXT

Projects Wanted is an initiative promoted by Void Matters, in which we invite Architecture offices to share their new projects with us. We are open to receive projects from all around the world, regardless of their dimension or typology. Please send us high quality photos (indicating their authors), drawings and descriptive texts in English to our Marketing e-mail - david.cardoso@dimscale.com. It will be our pleasure to help spreading new Architecture concepts and ideas.

HIGH VOLTAGE LABORATORY 

Mungía, Spain
IDOM / ACXT
Built area: 2.285 sqm
Cost: 3.421.080,80 €
Photos: Aitor Ortiz

"This building is a High Voltage Laboratory, for testing dielectric transformers up to 850 kV, which requires to be a diaphanous vessel of 57 m long, 30 m wide and 27 m high (inner dimensions), surrounded completely by a Faraday cage needed for the extremely  precision measurements performed inside.

 

The main hall can be divided into three main spaces, suitable for carrying out the Impulse and Resonant Tests, and SF6 equipment tests. Annex to the main space, there is a technical block with views into the testing room, which features two control rooms / reception, a meeting room and space for presentations and meetings for up to 60 people.

The new Laboratory is intended as both a laboratory of the most advanced technology in the sector, a representation of the ARTECHE bet on innovation, reflected in a polished metal facade that vibrates and breaks along its perimeter, allowing integration in a volume so important in the environment that is characterized by buildings significantly lower than this building, which reaches 30 meters."

- IDOM / ACXT

Projects Wanted - Restelo House, João Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos

Projects Wanted is an initiative promoted by Void Matters, in which we invite Architecture offices to share their new projects with us. We are open to receive projects from all around the world, regardless of their dimension or typology. Please send us high quality photos (indicating their authors), drawings and descriptive texts in English to our Marketing e-mail - david.cardoso@dimscale.com. It will be our pleasure to help spreading new Architecture concepts and ideas.

RESTELO HOUSE 

Lisbon, Portugal
João Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos
Built area: 230 sqm
Photos: FG + SG

Projects Wanted - EUTI Building of UPV University, IDOM / ACXT

Projects Wanted is an initiative promoted by Void Matters, in which we invite Architecture offices to share their new projects with us. We are open to receive projects from all around the world, regardless of their dimension or typology. Please send us high quality photos (indicating their authors), drawings and descriptive texts in English to our Marketing e-mail - david.cardoso@dimscale.com. It will be our pleasure to help spreading new Architecture concepts and ideas.

EUTI BUILDING - UPV UNIVERSITY 

Bilbao, Spain
IDOM / ACXT
Built area: 53.000 sqm
Photos: Aitor Ortiz

"Located on the Technological Campus of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Bilbao, this new building is in-keeping with the remodelling of the University Campus within the “Campus of International Excellence Program”, nominated by the Ministry of Education in 2010 in collaboration with the Université de Bordeaux (France).

Due to the university’s request and to its strategic location within the city, it is intended for this new building, which houses the Mining, Civil and Industrial Technical Engineering Schools, to become an architectonic reference thanks to its image by introducing a modern, quality design in line with the Institution it represents. For this purpose, apart from a very careful volumetric composition which deals with the volume restrictions imposed by the Development Plan, the logo designed by Eduardo Chillida has been included in the façade design, in the perforated steel and golden double skinned one, to be more precise.

Being a large size and scale building in the city, with almost 45,000 built sq. meters and 10 stories high, the new building sets up a dialogue between architecture, its sculptural volume and its plastic one, represented by the UPV/EHU logo, created by Eduardo Chillida, which was designed with the authorization of his Foundation. The exterior skin of golden perforated plate integrates the Chillida logo and grants unity to the whole building, camouflaging its great size. Furthermore, the building, being detached, seems divided by the black breach that separates the two university schools.

Throughout the whole design process, special emphasis was put in resolving the building as functional and flexible a manner as possible. Hence, two longitudinally functional corridors between supporting walls have been allocated along the long façades. One of them, the northeast facing one, shelters the classrooms and laboratories. The other, facing southwest and with smaller and more controlled openings, lodges all the offices. In the centre of the building there is a core of communication nuclei, toilets, building services and a patio for lighting purposes, with orange coloured polycarbonate.

In total, the building has 56 classrooms, 27 seminars, 7 study rooms, 238 offices for teachers, 9 meeting rooms, 45 teaching laboratories and 26 research laboratories apart from areas for managements, administration and services (auditoriums, board rooms, library, cafeteria, dining rooms, postgraduate classrooms, facilities and offices for technicians, etc.). 

All the building services have been designed taking energy efficiency into account, and they have been engineered so that future maintenance investment is kept to a minimum. Plus, bioclimatic criteria have been present during their design, as well as in the architectonic one, thus enhancing energy saving. Thus, the use of a rain-water reuse system, sustainable lighting criteria, aero-thermal considerations and the installation of low temperature boilers will allow for CO2 emissions to be reduced by almost 900,000 kg per year and a substantial saving in energy costs."

- IDOM / ACXT