PROJECT: TENDERING PROCESS FOR THE CONTRUCTION OF THE CONFEDERACIÓN HIDROGRÁFICA DEL MIÑO-SIL 

CONTRIBUTORS: JON MONTERO MADARIAGA, NAIARA MONTERO VIAR AND JAVIER SUANCES PEREIRA ARCHITECTS

LOCATION: ORENSE. PONTEVEDRA.  

DATE: 2011

SPONSOR: CONFEDERACION HIDROGRÁFICA DEL MIÑO-SIL AND ORENSE CITY COUNCIL

BUILDER: ______

BUDGET: 4.500.000€

BUILT SURFACE 5.795 m2  

The project tries to resolve the urban problems in the area, offering some interesting public spaces, designing one building with a clear operation and integrated with the public facilities of the city, proposing a building that is an icon to Ourense.

Looking the plot in its current state and its immediate surroundings it is detected a big urban problem (problems with the pedestrian circulations) and the disconnection of public spaces and facilities that are planned for the area.

It is essential to resolve this circulation, to get a continuous pedestrian path along the river, and the circulation along the river across the bridge that arrives to the city center.

It is proposed the enlargement of the step sections that are developed on the north side of the plot, setting a way that goes to the space created for the proposed public square, which is integrated into the building through the introduction of a common language inside the same.

The project consists of two volumes of 6 meter width, linked to each other by a vertical communications core. These volumes are characterized by being integrate inside the place and solve the requirements for light control and solar incidence.

Volume 1: soberer, with straight lines.  This volume is integrated with the language of neighboring dwellings.

Volume 2: it becomes more organic, with curved facades with colored glass slats, which gets integrated into the elevation that from the river, boosting green space areas, being the piece that closes the buildings elevations, participating with the changing color of the trees in the riverside walk, which takes place on the riverbank.

The project will become a new benchmark for the city, an icon, located in one of the main entrances to the city, which equates the formal dynamism of the city that is offered by the Millennium Bridge, presenting a new image of Ourense to all people who want to visit this city and its citizens.

With differentiation of the building in two volumes, it is generated a very light and clear operation floor, locating, in its higher floors, in one of its volumes, all the office units: volume 1, while in the volume 2, it is located all landscape offices and specific rooms units. The volumes are 6 meters wide, so we can use a concrete structure, simple and inexpensive. The choice of using a double skin façade allows us a light, ventilation and sound control.