US structure observe StudioSC teamed up with Colombian studio Base Taller to design a triangular concrete business workplace constructing in MedellÃn, Colombia.
Generally known as Indie Lab, the 69,632-square foot (6,469-square metre) complicated is located on a steeply sloped website subsequent to a nature protect exterior town of MedellÃn.
The general design drew inspiration from each busy streetscapes and the view out towards the protect. The designed it “to hook up with each in a significant method however nonetheless anchoring a brand new construction in hopes of tying them collectively,” StudioSC principal Stephen Conte informed Dezeen.
Working with native Base Taller, StudioSC balanced the positioning’s “break up dichotomy” by anchoring the plan round a important circulation core and making refined adjustments because the constructing wrapped concerning the nook with a rounded transition.
In an effort to benefit from the positioning’s triangular form, the staff positioned the constructing envelope alongside the perimeter of the property – permitting the required setbacks – however curved all three corners to melt the form’s sharpness.
The curve turned a method for the nine-story constructing to tie into the encircling panorama.
The first circulation core is an uncovered concrete stair and elevator shaft that pulls consideration to the northwest nook of the constructing. The curved concrete volumes are set off from the mass of the constructing – which is clad in mild rust-coloured brick – with a slim vertical aid between them.
4 higher flooring are accentuated alongside the road façade with a brick body and darkish metal-faced flooring plates. Ground-to-ceiling glazing wraps across the ranges and brings mild into the primary workplace areas. Native vegetation had been built-in by the facade, including bands of inexperienced.
Atop 4 subterranean ranges, the bottom degree is break up in half with entry areas holding the road edge and vertical parking stackers oriented alongside the hillside. The bottom degree additionally serves as a horizontal break within the venture, appearing as a band across the rear of the venture.
As the positioning slopes away, “the constructing appears to emerge from the forest, connecting again to the concrete core,” Conte stated.
With one facade uncovered to the dense forest, the staff noticed a chance to create intimate areas that join with nature, orienting the occupants to the protect by vaulted brick arches on the northwest and southwest sides.
The interiors had been left deliberately clean with uncovered waffle slab concrete ceilings and concrete flooring to permit future tenants or house owners to buy ranges individually and redesign the areas to suit the ethos of their companies.
The positioning’s location negated the necessity for any mechanical heating system and the constructing’s association acts as a passive heating technique.
“We positioned the primary concrete circulation core on the north finish of the positioning, permitting the total path of the solar throughout the day to comply with the open flooring plates, warming the glass parts of the facade from morning till sundown,” the staff stated.
“The concrete and brick additionally act as a thermal mass, trapping heat from the solar and releasing it at evening.”
Different current initiatives accomplished in Colombia embrace a brick-lined restaurant conversion by Lorenzo Botero and MartÃn Mendoza and a material fog catcher construction by Alsar Atelier and Oscar Zamora – each positioned in Bogotá.
The pictures is by Matteo Soto and Rodrigo Rios.
Challenge credit:
Lead Architects: StudioSC, Base Taller
Panorama: Greenfield Design Studio
