[ Mozas Aguirre arquitectos ] Vital Building

Architects: Mozas Aguirre arquitectos - Javier Mozas & Eduardo Aguirre
Location: Madrid, Spain
Project year: 2005
Construction year: 2007
Client: Local Savings Bank: Caja Vital Kutxa Headquarters
Structural Engineer: NB 35, Madrid
Artists: Javier Perez: two walls and ceiling of the main hall / Miguel Gonzalez de San Román: paintings on the basement
Site Area: 11,042 sqm
Constructed Area: 16,578 sqm
Photographs: Cesar San Millan

This is the headquarters for the local savings bank. The building reproduces the scale of the surrounding small woods, a park

of the Natura 2000 networking programme.

general plan

The floor plan has a chromosome shape with four arms.

The structural concept is based on pairs of exterior metal supports, clad in stainless steel composite panels. One of the

arms has been conceived as a 26 meter cantilever. In this case the concept changes and the pairs do not have any structural

function.

A double height hall located in the heart of the building has its two façades enclosed by a work of art. They have been

constructed with bright red polyurethane panels with a manually painted biological pattern.

The idea is to identify the building as a live organism in motion. A black skin made of glass protects the inhabited spaces

behind the stainless steel pairs.