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Architects: Alberto García Marín, Juan Manuel Sánchez La Chica
- Area: 87 m²
- Year: 2020
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Photographs:Fernando Alda
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Manufacturers: iGuzzini, PERI, Siarsa, Sun Power, Titanlux
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Lead Architects: Alberto García Marín, Juan Manuel Sánchez La Chica
Text description provided by the architects. Smart Tree was born from a research project of the University of Malaga with the objective of recycling elements from the demolition of campus buildings to improve teaching environments college. Smart Tree is conceived as a biotechnological tree whose mission is to rehabilitate the outdoor spaces of the university, promoting its use through the creation of green environments and connective services. Located at the back of Sciences School, this intervention transforms a disused place to provide users with different buildings in the environment of an open-air co-working space, relaxed and friendly, which provides a microclimate of environmental and sensory comfort, and technology for access to renewable energy and information.
The structure of Smart Tree and its furniture have been designed from materials from demolition parts of campus buildings that have exhausted their first useful life. The pavilion arises from the reworking of a structure that served as a pergola in the courtyard of Fine Arts School, whose necessary rehabilitation implied the elimination of it.
All this was built on a garden, which with the intention of improving the environmental and sensory conditions, was designed using native flora. A weather station and various strategically located sensors enable the collection of data in real-time of the environmental quality conditions, through which conclusions are drawn for the improvement of this space and its future application in other rehabilitation projects of outdoor spaces.
