Rock, paper

- Biomedical Science building competition -

“Rock, paper” consists of a gradient of climatic spaces, developed through the combination of two architectural languages: the light and transparency related to the green house typologies and the massive and heavy expressions coming from the world of walls and concrete. They both are the negative space of each other. It is a continuous contrast between lightness and heaviness, solid and gas, the permanent and the mutable.

This green house is adapted taking into account the thermodynamic flows, users and their time schedules. This results in and in-between space that that does not belong to the exterior world nor to the more conditioned interior spaces. There the wind flows, plants grow and it may even rain.

Strategy

Permeable greenhouse envelope

Perimetral
communication

Concrete system for conditioned spaces

Site plan

Floor plan layout

Central space view

Bioclimatic section

The thermal inertia associated with the massive architecture of the walls manages to maintain a constant temperature for a longer period of time. This is suitable for prolonged and constant uses over time, as in the case of the university.

The greenhouse structure on the other hand creates a thermal buffer zone that facilitates the conditioning of the spaces contained in winter, being completely permeable in summer to avoid the harmful effects of possible overheating.

Cross section

Longitudinal section

Entrance view