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Foro Europeo Spain : Navarra Architecture

Navarra Development, Pamplona design by Vaillo + Irigaray Architects, Spain

4 May 2009

Foro Europeo

Location: Navarra, Spain
Date built: 2004
Design: Vaillo + Irigaray

FORO EUROPEO
UGARRANDÍA, HUARTE, NAVARRA

AWARDS

Accésit. Award COAVN. Category Building:
Finalista. Award Spanish Arquitecture 2005
First Award. Aluminier Award- Technal Architecture 2006. Best institutional work
First Award. ATEG Award galvanizing construction 2006

INFO

MEMORY

Minimum basic cell: flexibility = iso-space
The reproductive structure of the project, part of a minimum basic unit, which like space optimal minimum dimensions can be multiplied and can take appropriate structures for different uses. This is achieved by providing the building with great flexibility, according to the changing needs of such a program.

Faculty
The building takes up the tradition of “teaching” in Europe, the concept of “faculty” as a formalized structure: this way the program is built around a courtyard.

Cofre draft
The “clothes”, which like “veils” with various rankings of transparency, respond to an abstract mimicry relationship with the natural surroundings: the subtle reflections (like those of spider webs), the ring brightness Baroque as a huge embroidery, with bare trunks in the winter or the color of the leaves in autumn, and so on.

* In this building the photograph is “almost a lie”. It is true only when the “click”…the rest of thousands of times the building is different, every time: different.

Foro Europeo – Building Information

Architects: Antonio Vaillo + Juan Luis Irigaray
Project manager: David Eguinoa, architect
Rigers: SIAT
Structure: Tadeo Errea – DASEIN
Facilities: Andrés Bustince – INARQ
Builder: OBENASA
Project: 2003
To work: 2004
Promoter: Foro Europeo

Pictures: José Manuel Cutillas