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Architects: Ábalos + Sentkiewicz arquitectos
- Area: 10080 m²
- Year: 2012
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Photographs:José Hevia
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Structural Engineering: BOMA Levante, Antoni Ortí, José Ramón Solé
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Mechanical & Electrical Engineering: ARTIN Proyectos, Paco Mora, Jose María Barreda
The Solar Tower in Sociópolis, Valencia, is born out of the same initial sketch-idea as the La Chapelle Tower, in an attempt to move social housing away from the anonymous recurrent iconographies, exploring the possibilities of a tower which dematerializes at its top multiplying exterior and interior spaces with their own identity. The use of a reflective materiality and geometry with a growing curvilinear matrix, allows playing with the reflections, leading the look to the crucial point of a tall building, a model widely experimented in the American city, for which the Giralda Tower often served as a reference.
