AGORA SOCIOCULTURAL CENTER, A CORUÑA. SPAIN the MAGIC MOUNTAIN

AGORA CENTER, A Coruña

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

An Agora must be an accessible and open space for people’s meeting and their civic expression. This public and collective character makes architecture face to a double challenge:

On the one hand, its program is complex and multiple, covering from culture, administration, meeting, spectacle and social services.

On the other hand, even being a building, its true vocation is linked and close to the concept and qualities of a square.

Iconography and civic image

Urbanization of Sector 2 “San Pedro de Visma” – in which the Agora Centre is inscribed as civic centre and urban organizer – represents a forward step in natural and agricultural landscape domestication that surrounds A Coruña. In order to contrast this action, we work with a built architecture that is related with landscape and iconographic simulation, with the goal of preserving the natural and rural ambient memory that now characterizes it and that is the identity of Galicia.

We are planning an architecture that is integrated with natural land topography and continuing with it. That’s why roof is modeled as landscape, with green and hydroponic systems, calling to a simulated and decorative fiction of a rural landscape associated with original.

Magic Mountain is offered to be a vegetal and protective shell in which architecture integrates city and its surrounding, so that we remember history and tradition of a region linked to natural and rural environment, and to promote an idea of a city based on sustainability and balance.

Formal organization

Formal organization of the Center is a reflection of two forces: one is spatial, searching for balance between new architecture and landscape in which it is integrated; another one, to place necessities program according to its necessities of relation among parts and use of

each area (offices, public spaces, meeting, open spaces… to place 10.000 sqm of several interrelated but different functions)

That’s why we are proposing an architecture that balances architectonic and landscape configuration, integrating volumetric form and molded landscape. For that purpose, we are proposing a formal structure, spatially and structurally dense, in which geometric and transparent solids are integrated with continuous and fluid empty spaces that run between them.

The final result is a balance between interior and exterior and between compactness and fragmentation, which porosity and transparency must guarantee its accessibility and public character, and which density and compactness must guarantee its capacity of architecture for building a recognizable ambient protected from urbanity.

Form and construction

Building systems that have been chosen are reflection of its flexible vocation that necessarily the program imposes: because of the variety of uses and its different nature, because of the variety of sizes derived from its uses, and because of the interchangeability that, by common sense, must exist between different spaces and areas. Agora is a container, a box, but with form.

That’s why constructive systems are those that are used in containers and boxes: a perimeter with a metallic structure that allows large free spaces and horizontal built platforms with prefabricated systems (reinforced concrete decks and beams, laminated wood beams and sandwich wood panels) without intermediate structure.

As a consequence of these structural and constructive systems, an open space is offered to us, with a system of repetitive modulated spaces and open and continuous rooms, which use is determined not so much because of the rooms form –not existing- but more because of the ambient fitting-out system that is suitable for each use and because of the furniture placed in each room.

Luis

Rojo de Castro

rojo/fernández-shaw, arquitectos

londres 7 bajo  madrid 28028

TECHNICAL DATA

Location   San Pedro de Visma, A Coruña

Client    A Coruña City Council

Competition   FIRST PRIZE, March 2007

Date Built    September 2011

Contractor   Dragados S.A.

Architects   ROJO/FERNÁNDEZ-SHAW + LILIANA OBAL

Luis Rojo de Castro

Begoña Fernández-Shaw Zulueta

Liliana Obal Díaz

Construction manager  Fernando Vasco Hidalgo

Engineers   NB 35

Consultants   Úrculo Ingenieros

Photographer   Hisao Suzuki

这个项目是一个公共的，要应对公众访问的建筑。因此在建筑性之外还需要考虑复杂的要素，涵盖范围从文化到管理，社会服务等

建筑位于一个环境敏感之处，需要与自然和乡村景致协调。建筑师让建筑轻轻的坐落在变化的自然地形之上，屋顶处理为景观屋顶，最大限度与景观协调。

建筑组织反映了两个观点。一个是空间—–需找到建筑与景观的平衡；另一个是功能—-根据相互间的关系组织使用功能区（将办公，公共场所，会议室，休息室安排在1万平米的面积中）。

建筑整合形体，保持与景观同步。空间紧凑，在几何与透明形体的组合中实现连续流畅的组织。内部与外部在开放和隐私之间达到平衡，让建筑充满友好性和访问性，以及优雅适当的环境协调性。建筑，形式下的容器。

建筑师采用了可以允许在内部创造出开放大空间的金属结构。这使得内部空间可以更为自由的适应多种用途。

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