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Ricardo López Sánchez

Ricardo López Sánchez

Valladolid, ES

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"LUCIA" Lab Building. University of Valladolid.

The project started with the idea of creating an object of great iconographic force that reflects the excitement of the research process and celebrate the joy of scientific discovery.
As a mineral structure, the crystalline core and vitreous epidermis is protected with an opaque, matte, neutral. From the outside the building as a unit is defined by a skin formalized rigorously modulated and organized internally into four bodies that share the same type of glass facade.

Is chosen to enhance the difference between the two opposite walls and exterior modulation, the inner sum grows more irregular enclosure using the substructure of the tree so without the use of a serial pattern.

The proposed research program exploits the object inside the opening and shaping the outside and leaving formal structure given the clarity and brightness. Interior. This movement generates internal cavities around which mandated program is developed in four blocks. Visual relationships between each of the centers are complemented by the outward permeability allowing gaps generated between them.

This dialogue promotes mutual transfer of knowledge, information and research and development between economic and social reality has not wanted to disguise the aggressive nature of the proposal with the understanding that this is the impetuous force that is capable of carrying out the progress and necessary findings from a university laboratory to its implementation in society.

 
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Status: Competition Entry
Location: Valladolid, ES

 
Exterior exterior
Exterior exterior
Exterior view
Exterior view
View from the roof top
View from the roof top
View from the inside
View from the inside