Textual content description supplied by the architects. The constructing accommodates the European hub for the worldwide community of design and visible arts universities, LCI Schooling. It’s situated within the former industrial district of Poblenou in Barcelona, now the technological district 22@, which is present process an city transformation.
The above-ground quantity of the constructing consists of lecture rooms, sensible labs, administrative workplaces, a library, and scholar areas. Circulation is organized peripherally and parallel to the façade. This area acts as a filter, a social space, a working atmosphere, and an exhibition area. Very like the interaction of stable and void in a classical portico, the rhythm of the façade blurs the boundaries between the inside and the outside, reworking the journey via the constructing into an expertise.
Underground, the constructing additionally incorporates the plaza footprint, leading to an unlimited open area for college kids. Right here, two massive versatile halls for numerous actions coexist with workrooms, laboratories, and fabrication workshops, all illuminated by pure mild filtering via the bottom flooring double-height areas and skylights from the plaza above.
The façade of the constructing responds to varied orientations via a unified technique. It blocks direct daylight to forestall glare whereas maximizing the entry of oblique mild. Externally, the facade is clad in aluminum and completed with a clear powder coating. This preserves the textural qualities and lightweight reflection of the steel, permitting the aluminum to work together with its environment and the altering daylight all through the day. Internally, the partitions are paneled in white, enhancing the pure mild inside.
The constructing is a “vertical campus” designed to accommodate roughly 3,000 college students. The design goals to supply a top quality city atmosphere by which the journey via the area, contributes to the scholar expertise.
To attain this, the bottom flooring serves as a permeable area, set again from the constructing’s perimeter to reinforce the general public space, that includes glass façades that promote transparency and visible continuity. Entry is supplied by way of a bridge that crosses via the constructing, linking the road to the inside plaza. This unfolds like a seating area, with steps and an entry ramp, thereby blurring the boundaries of the bottom flooring and integrating it into the city area. The plaza turns into a group area for each college students and native residents.
Under floor, a social journey for college kids unfolds, linking the bottom flooring and the primary two ranges via a steel staircase that crosses a quadruple-height entrance lobby. Between the third and fifth flooring, circulation continues externally alongside the recessed façade, encircling the library and linking to the “raised plaza” of the campus, situated on the coronary heart of the constructing (fourth flooring). This area faces the ocean, making the most of the breeze whereas sheltering from direct daylight due to a protecting overhang.
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