Office Silo & Containers / Vaillo + Irigaray

Architects: Vaillo + Irigaray / Antonio Vaillo + Juan Luis Irigaray
Location: Tajonar, Navarra, Spain
Project manager: David Eguinoa, architect
Riggers: José Ignacio Sola, Julián Damboriena y Marcos Corral
Structure: Tadeo Errea – DASEIN
Facilities: Andrés Bustince – INARQ.ingenieros
Façade: Marcial Lázaro – ALTRES
Contractor: ACR +NORLAND + DASEIN
Project year: 2002
Finished year: 2005
Photographs: José Manuel Cutillas & Pedro Pegenaute

The location corresponds to a no-place located  between the peripheral sites and south access to Pamplona.

Wings

It is composed of 11 containers (wings), arranged in zig-zag, giving the complex a look away from static models, closer to industrial sites.

The construction system of the wings is based on two generative laws:

• Economy of means and constructive simplicity.
• Use of polyfunctional systems: We have tried that one same constructive system effectively resolves the maximum amount of requirements as possible, adding to a maximal standardization by resolving with minimal variants.

Office Building

The office buildings is composed by an elliptical construction, as a counterpoint to the wings: in front of an horizontal and pointy construction, a curved tall tower appears, searching for the minimum “friction” between the rest of the buildings.