Designed by Spanish Ensamble Studio, the SGAE Central office in Santiago de Compostela uses stacked stone slabs on an exterior wall to create a space with filtered light. The stone wall be seen as a monumental sculpture, is made of Mondariz Grey stone arranged in an irregular grouping of size and geometry where selected from quary overage and placed in strips to all south light to break inside the covered passage. The structure consists of three walls each running the length of the property and each of varied construction, material and scale. The stone wall faces the garden space, then an interior wall made of CDs and a translucent wall facing the street defines the interior boundary, which is distributed in four areas and provides 32,000 sq. ft. (3,000 sq. m.) of usable space. The interior CD wall is a flat plane placed between the outer curved elements, and a solid element between two elements of light.
Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain | 11/12/09 |
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