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EUTI BUILDING - UPV UNIVERSITY
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
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