*자연을 아이콘화하는 건축물, 아자하 헤드쿼터 [ OAB ] Azahar Headquarters

건축공간과 자연을 하나로 묶는 연결고리는 무엇일까요?

건축은 자연을 함축적으로 담아 표현 할 수 있을까요?

이러한 의문은 아자하 그룹의 본사 프로젝트에 고스란히 담겨 있습니다.

주변 랜드스케이프를 고스란히 담아 내는 건축물의 형태는 멀리 보이는 산세를

모방 및 미니멀하게 구축한 건축물의 지붕형태에 잘 나타나 있습니다.

이것은 대지를 건축물의 아이콘으로 표현하는 동시에 이질적인 건축공간에

자연을 도입하는 과정을 보여줍니다.

특히 두개의 파티오로 구성된 건축물 사이에 형성된 중정은 외부 방문객과

내부 공간을 연결하는 구심점으로 작용하며 퍼블릭과 프라빗의 상반된

영역을 동시에 만족시키는 공간적 깊이를 보여줍니다.

-내부 중정으로 열린 전창시스템은 분리된 두개의 공간을 형성하는 것이 아니라

중정을 통하여 하나의 통일된 공간으로 형성하는 기폭제로 작용합니다.-

건축의 함축적인 언어를 통해 새롭게 구성된 랜드스케이프는

이곳 헤드헌터를 통해 투영되며 또다른 랜드마크로 정의됩니다.

reviewed by SJ

The Azahar Group is a group of companies with strong links with sustainability and environmental issues. It develops services to do with garden design (both public and private), recycling with waste-treatment plants, environmental consultancy and construction, along with other activities like sponsoring the world of art and cooperating with a Foundation on various projects in the Third World.

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Architects: OAB
Location: Castellón, Spain
Design Team: Carlos Ferrater, Núria Ayala
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Alejo Bagué

Project Area: 4,304 sqm
Collaborators: Emilio Llobat
Client: Grupo de Empresas Azahar

The parent company originates from Castellón and, given its growth and expansion, was eager to have a corporate headquarters that would reflect its environmental and artistic commitment. With this as a framework, and with the availability of a 5.6-hectare piece of land next to the N-340 highway, part way between Castellón and Benicàssim, the project contemplates three interventions: the covered greenhouses and exterior nursery plantations; a building for services complementary to the activities developed by the company; and the group’s corporate headquarters.

The headquarters is erected as an icon building maintaining a close relationship with the landscape. To both the north and west the topography of the mountains serves as a backdrop to the building, against which the geometrical roofs repeatedly stand out. From a distance their facetted shape and outline help situate the building in the landscape.

Orientated on the east-west axis, the headquarters building is structured as two wings united by a central body around two open patios of a very different sort. The first as a “parade ground” or external reception area for users and visitors, and the rear one, landscaped and for more private use. In this way it is closed off to the distant landscape and its own climate and interior/exterior rapport established. These patios provide a cross view between the glazed frontages, and no direct radiation exists towards the interior inhabitable spaces. The four wings that accommodate the company’s different departments converge in a main hall which, as well as acting as a distributor, is a large exhibition space. The lighting of this hall is overhead, so that the special north light is introduced inside the building through a huge skylight extending over a sequence of girders.

The ceilings inside faithfully reflect the geometry of the roof and the vision of the continuity of these is produced by transparent glass tympani supported on the dividers of the different rooms. For the resolution of all the cladding we sought a continuous facing that could be applied to both the facade and the roof. To arrive at the maximum energy saving and find a sustainable solution was included in the proposed objectives. Hence, there arose a new material applied to the Coteterm system: a flexible and self-washing stucco, white in color, that needs no further joints than those of the actual implementation of 2-3 mm.

n important environmental feature of the buildings is the channeling of water from all the roofs and the outside areas to a cistern-reservoir, the latter being used in the watering of exteriors and nursery plantings on the plot of land.

from  archdaily