PROJECT: TENDERING PROCESS FOR A NEW JUDICIAL BUILDING IN PONTEVEDRA

CONTRIBUTORS: JON MONTERO MADARIAGA Y NAIARA MONTERO VIAR ARCHITECTS / ICEACSA ENGINEERING

LOCATION: Pontevedra. Galicia.

DATE: ABRIL 2012

SPONSORS: S.P.I. (Sociedad Pública de Inversiones de Galicia)

BUILDER: ______

BUDGET: 22.000.000 €

BUILT SURFACE: 24.152 m2

The building is conceived as a volumetrically closed block slightly introverted, getting, with a perforated metal enclosure, sufficient permeability to light, so that the building is perceived both internally and externally, very light. The volume is very cleaning and compact in the exterior, so this building has a strong presence in the area, working as a benchmark in this parcel, and Pontevedra.  We got the integration, using the type of closed block, present in the vicinity, and on the other hand, using flat and curved shapes in some points of the new court.

This form is extracted from the traces that we are given in the plot, and bending the joints, is precisely to achieve a dialogue between the two buildings.

The proposed closure is formed by perforated Corten steel. The perforation is not always equal, the circles have  different sizes depending on the area which is located across the sheet, as the need for natural light to enter this space and the privacy to the same.

The plate is combined with a second glass skin, which will be practicable in some parts, for ventilation and circulation spaces.

This double skin provides the perfect combination for a very continuous building on the outside but allows ventilation and light to enter.

The building despite having a clean volumetry, the same in all floors , if there is a point where the volumes are "holing" to get very interesting terraces in each of the plants.

The building is joined to the adjacent building through a footbridge. This footbridge is made by the same material of the exterior skin of the court.