A double skin facade for the Headquarters of the General Directorate of State Assets (now CNIIE and INTEF), manufactured in Riventi managed to achieve the category of Best Glass Facade 2014. The inner skin was made with the patented system R70ST, with hidden profiles and an open wound of 20 mm. Located on Torrelaguna Street in Madrid, this building was designed by Mariano Bayon Alvarez and Pablo Bayon Villamor.
The administrative building coexists on the same plot with a building from the seventies by the architects Corrales and Molezún, which marked the translation of their architectural precepts of the "free plan" into a building characterized by a repeated, modulated and flexible plan. The building with a structural base in a square, isotropic mesh, is sheathed in a abstract and light skinIn the words of its architects this skin is: "communicative while also capable of seeking the best environmental layout for the building, due to its ventilation, its acoustic attenuation, its vocation for energy saving and zero maintenance, not to mention the non-aggressive, satiny, iridescent and changing presence of its facades, understood as a background for the landscape, as an aesthetic and intentional meeting through a current language with the Corrales and Molezún building."
The success of this façade is based on the constructive translation in perfect coordination with the architects of their project idea. The initial façade idea, based on systems of calibrated bolted aluminium panels, was replaced by a system of extruded hollow profiles, preserving the layout of the leaves and tramex walkways. Particularly noteworthy is the development of the outer glass leaf, which goes from being mounted on two alternating planes to being mounted on a single plane on the outside of the existing profile, designed for this purpose.
In collaboration with the main platforms of BIM object download We have developed the specific model for this façade.
Best Glass Façade 2014. General Directorate of State Heritage.
I Architecture Awards with Ñ Veteco Asefave
Photographs (8-11) Alberto Ruiz and Maria Gimenez
Photography (1-3). Pablo Bayón Villamor
See page 64 of CSCAE's 2014 newsletter no. 6