Banco Popular Headquartes / Arquitectos Ayala

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  • Architects: Arquitectos Ayala: Gerardo Ayala Hernández, Mateo Ayala Calvo, Marcos Ayala Calvo
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  52000
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2009
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Alucoil, Jansen
  • Category: Office Buildings
  • Collaborators: Mª Concepción Calvo Campos, Ingrid Halbach, Fabio Fuentes Abascal, Leticia Roqués Gómez, Sergio Jiménez González, Mª Carmen Pozo Saavedra, Ricardo Santos Barbero, Javier Prats Bonet, Aurora Zanoletty Pérez, Jaime Prome Wongse, Juan Ayala Calvo, Emilio Rodríguez González, Andrés Olivares Narváez, Ana Paula Rodríguez Cabañas, Almudena Rodríguez Cózar, Alejandro Rodríguez Fraga
  • Structure: Julio Martínez Calzón
  • Landscaping: Antonio Cantero, María Iza
  • Lighting: Ignacio Valero
  • Facade: Jesús Cerezo
  • Acoustics: Santiago Valero
  • Architects: Gerardo Ayala Hernández, Mateo Ayala Calvo, Marcos Ayala Calvo
  • City: Madrid
  • Country: Spain
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Text description provided by the architects. We initially conceive the project as a whole extending from plot to plot in a way which users and visitors experience as natural and easily recognizable. Thus we suggested building a series office blocks which would form an interwoven whole. The other option, a single large building, was discarded to make room for a more versatile, flexible and domestic option. In this sense we prefer here to work around a formula rather than a form, taking as starting point a typological approach rather than an image. After discarding any solution which did not include the North-South orientation of the offices, an interwoven complex has taken its place which follows a trefoil formation in its ordering of the different office blocks. This is done to avoid that the building cast shadows on each other. In this chess-table disposition, the blocks both express their individuality and interdependence under a higher-order principle. The whole is unified through the bottom and top floors. Base and culmination provide the common link, the element that makes them one.

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Cite: "Banco Popular Headquartes / Arquitectos Ayala" [Nueva sede "Banco Popular" / Arquitectos Ayala] 04 Mar 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/339163/banco-popular-headquartes-arquitectos-ayala> ISSN 0719-8884

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