Granada Science Park – Ferrater + Jimenez Brasa

Dec 2008

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Spanish photographer Aleix Bagué sent us his latest photo report on the new building by Carlos Ferrater & Jimenez Brasa Arquitectos.

More pictures, text and drawings after the break.

The project for the extension of the Science Park in Granada, by the Genil river, starts with the construction of a single roof with small inflections that looks like an open hand, covering the different programmatic pieces interconnected on a continuous space.

The empty space that connects the big boxes or program containers (Macroscope, Biodome, Tecnoforum, Health Sciences, Al Andalus, auditoriums and space for temporary and permanent exhibitions) structures the communications, logistics and relationships with the activities of the Park.

The proposed spatial structure allows for a big flexibility of uses and situations that interconnect circulations and themes.

Most of the projects developed as topographies often substitute the continuos quality of the roof with a succession of planes or porches of variable section. In that way, the resulting space and the roof´s constructive autonomy as a continuous element turns into a sequential relation of interconnected spaces.

In Granada, the roof is a continuous folded surface that floats over the inclined plane of the ground level, enclosing between them the big spaces for exhibition, highlighting the communication and relation spaces with light that penetrates between the folded planes.

On its abstraction, the big roof has a profile that reminds the skyline of the Granada mountains. The development of the big topographic roof adapts to the volumetric requirements, generating in its interior large and tall enclosed spaces that house the different programs.

The roof flies over the terrain, constructing a new topography that, as it folds, organizes between folds the skylights that provide natural light to the circulations and connecting spaces.

The roof mesh is resolved with a double layer tridimensional structure that encloses services and technical systems, solving the rain water evacuation. The skylights guide the roof as the continuation of the main structure.

Architect: Carlos Ferrater & Jimenez Brasa Arquitectos
Location: Granada, Spain
Collaborators: Luis Gonzalo Arias Recalde, David Molina Carneros, Cristian Eugen Boz
Project Year: 2004
Construction Year: 2005-2008
Promotor: Consortium Parque de las Ciencias
Structural Engineering: Juan Calvo / Pondio
Main Contractor: Dragados S.A.
Acoustics: Higini Arau
Technical Architects: Francisco Javier Gonzalez Escolano, José Moreno Gómez
Building contributor: David Molina Carneros
Constructed Area: 48,377 sqm
Budget: US $50.45 M
Photographs: Aleix Bagué

: ground floor

Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "Granada Science Park – Ferrater + Jimenez Brasa" 03 Dec 2008. ArchDaily. Accessed 08 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/9509>

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Prevedello says:

Amazing.

# December 3, 2008 at 08:28

jusT says:

just perfect, nothing more to say

# December 3, 2008 at 08:38

jiri says:

yes, wonderful – the design of inner spaces….

# December 3, 2008 at 10:45

Ricardo Loureiro says:

Great project and great photographer! Great post !

# December 3, 2008 at 10:49

Contemporary Art says:

Very dramatic. I especially like the aerial view.

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# December 3, 2008 at 11:02

scarpasez says:

It’s projects like this that made me want to study architecture. Terrific!

# December 3, 2008 at 14:00

Rolia says:

a lot of pleasure watching that kind of architecture !

# December 3, 2008 at 17:59

peppy says:

The amazement of interior space is carried out into the roofscape.
terific…

# December 3, 2008 at 21:34

William Fong says:

beautiful. love how it dances on the landscape with the mountains in the background…
the the floorplans are just so sexy.
those swooping lines give u such drama while being inside.

# December 3, 2008 at 22:28

Joanna Liu says:

Beautiful~Like the design of inner spaces,too.

# December 3, 2008 at 22:55

Readux says:

gorgeous

# December 4, 2008 at 03:16

Gisela Frick says:

A stunning building, I love the way its soaked with light and the way intermediate and interior spaces develop throughout different material qualities. The strategy of making a topography- like building is specially appropiate given Granada´s urban and geographic features. Bravo, Ferrater.

# December 4, 2008 at 10:23

Ceno says:

Beautiful.. So white and so pure, what about the maintenance? Anything that so white could be easily messed up by dirt or something that attach to the wall or roof, anybody know how they planned against the dirt? Thx

# December 4, 2008 at 22:21

Benjamin Gonzalez says:

That Ground Floor plane is amazing !

# January 11, 2009 at 17:19

Max says:

There is a perfect juxtaposition of horizontal elements and the verticality of the overall space. It’s almost gothic. It is the fourth time I come back to this post. It’s beautiful and I am glad it exists.

# April 5, 2009 at 23:45

Cara says:

I really enjoy how this project makes use of repeated orthogonal forms and straight lines to create a form that is not simply a box. The slopes are beautifully executed by straight line segments rather than a simple curve. The interior spaces are photographed very well, and I can imagine occupying them would be breathtaking.

# September 13, 2010 at 16:12

nogz says:

Well done, and as the other comments express, thanks Arch Daily for bringing work like this to view. It brings to mind how rarely a project which has strong formal ambition is brought to a level of such material and spatial development.

# September 14, 2010 at 11:04

Keila Cilfone says: