架构师提供的文本描述。全球市场营销公司(GMC)成立于2004年，由三家前身公司合并而成，是一家致力于沥青营销、分销和改性的财团。该公司年销售额达15万吨，是全国不同道路和基础设施项目中沥青含量最高的公司。

Text description provided by the architects. Founded in 2004 from the merger of three predecessor companies, Global Marketing Corporation (GMC) is a consortium dedicated to the marketing, distribution and modification of asphalt. With a sales volume of 150 thousand tons per year, it is the company that puts the most asphalt in different road and infrastructure projects in the country.

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GMC成立五年后，开始在萨拉曼卡市建造一座建筑群，不仅作为其公司总部，而且作为沥青储存和配送中心，以提高其对巴焦岛石油副产品需求的反应能力。

Five years after its founding, GMC began the construction of a complex in the city of Salamanca to serve not only as its corporate headquarters, but also as an asphalt storage and distribution center, to improve its response to the demand for this petroleum byproduct in the Bajio.

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该项目自2009年9月起实施，为期15个月，占地面积1184.88平方米。

The project, implemented over a period of 15 months from September 2009, is located in an area of 1184.88 square meters.

D4建筑师提出的方案选择了开放性和自然性，将工业区连接起来。工业区的重点是四个巨大的沥青储油罐和公司办公室，设计的是现代线条，使用的是双面切术，比如香石阵；轻巧、不透明、透明的。要求作出功能性答复，但要有特色，这不仅是为了为GMC团队提供一个高效和舒适的空间，而且也是给其客户和访客的一封有吸引力的求职信。

The proposal developed by D4 Architects opted for openness and naturalness, by linking the industrial area, the focus of which are four huge asphalt storage tanks, with the body of corporate offices, with a design of contemporary lines that plays with dichotomies such as chiaroscuro; light-heavy, opaque-transparent. A functional response was sought, but with character, not only to serve as an efficient and comfortable space for the GMC team, but also as an attractive cover letter to its clients and visitors.

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公司总部的设计总面积为257.35平方米，有两层的立方体，它们不是平行排列的，而是与一个中央建筑相连的，其特点是在较低层设置了幕墙，以及一个大而暗的混凝土楼板，它实际上是建筑的加冕，同时起到“伞”和平台框架的作用。

The corporate headquarters, with a total area of 257.35 square meters, are designed with two cubic volumes of two floors that are not aligned parallel, but are interconnected with a central body, characterized by a curtain wall at its lower levels and a large dark concrete slab that literally crowns the building, functioning as an "umbrella" and terrace frame at once.

该设计力求在不留下办公大楼的隐私和封闭性的情况下，创造透明的空间，使人们能够观察存储区的活动。这是通过笛卡尔式的安排来实现的，它建立了一个南北轴线，穿过大楼的中央，并在储油罐中结束，还有一个东西轴，连接着行政区域的大厅和运行立方体。

The design sought, without leaving the privacy and closed character of an office building, to create transparent spaces that allow the observation of activities in the storage area. This was achieved with a Cartesian arrangement that established a north-south axis that crosses through the central body of the building and ends in the storage tanks, and an east-west axis that connects the lobby of the administrative area and the operational cube.

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虽然不透水和不透明度定义了一种材料，如沥青，这些品质不适用于公司建筑的语言，它的玻璃立面，以加强自然照明和它的开放和舒适的气氛。这些阳光漫射阳光，无论是用结霜的玻璃，还是用228平方米的金属百叶窗把守的大型部分，这些金属百叶窗除了它们的功能优点外，还为建筑物提供了一种现代的感觉。

Although impermeability and opacity define a material such as asphalt, these qualities do not apply to the language of the corporate building, with its glass facades to enhance natural lighting and its open and comfortable atmosphere. These diffuse the passage of sunlight either with frosted glass or large sections guarded by 228 square meters of metal shutters that in addition to their functional virtues, provide a contemporary feel to the building.

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在内部，一个没有立柱和墙壁的计划有助于光通过正面和中央穹顶进入的道路，也有利于创造一个动态的工作环境，具有很好的视觉和操作上的相互联系，包括公司的不同领域。

Inside, a plan free of columns and walls facilitates the path of light entering through the facades and a central dome, and also favors the creation of a dynamic work environment with great visual and operational interconnection, including different areas of the company.

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GMC总部最具代表性的特点之一也是其最大的建设性挑战：其宽阔的外露混凝土墙顶在跨度为12米的空心核心板上，没有中间柱，最高高度为11米。这个项目不是免费的装饰，而是为了保护建筑物免受任何专门用于储存沥青的设施的不可避免的状况的影响：燃烧器产生的细灰，这些燃烧器是为了保持石油产品的流动性和易于管理而永久运转。

One of the most iconic features of GMC Headquarters was also its greatest constructive challenge: its broad exposed concrete wall topped in a hollow core slab with a span of 12 meters, without intermediate columns and a maximum height of 11 meters. This item is not a free ornament, but was designed to protect the building from an inevitable condition of any facility dedicated to the storage of asphalt: the fine ash produced by the burners that are permanently running to maintain the petroleum product fluid and manageable.

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为了减少维护计划，我们决定开发这个30厘米厚的黑色元素，这样灰烬中的污垢就不会被注意到。楼板顶部的开口不仅在结构上减轻了它的重量，而且有助于通风白天在露台上产生的热量，而且它们具有现代和表现力的美学品质。

With the aim of a reduced maintenance program, we decided to develop this element, 30 cm thick, in black, so that the accumulation of grime from the ashes would go unnoticed. Openings at the top of the slab not only served to decrease its weight in structural terms, but also contribute to ventilate the heat generated during the day on the terrace, plus they have a modern and expressive aesthetic quality.

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该项目包括若干可持续的设计战略，例如根据阳光和盛行的风向而定的建筑物方向、立面的透明度以及金属格子和板的遮阳，这些设计除了所述功能外，还有助于隔音以抵御邻近炼油厂产生的噪音，并形成一道屏障，防止白天屋顶过热。

The project included several sustainable design strategies such as building orientation, depending on the sunlight and the prevailing wind direction, transparency of facades and shading with the metal lattice and the slab, that beyond the described functions contribute to the acoustic insulation against the noise generated in the neighboring refinery, and to form a barrier against the overheating of the roof during the day.

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在建筑物两端安装一个中央播种机和几个水体有助于产生凉爽宜人的小气候，减少使用空调，而雨水收集系统和废水处理则有助于有效利用这一要素，将其用于灌溉和维护绿色和外部地区。

A center planter and a couple of bodies of water at both ends of the building help to generate a cool and pleasant microclimate, reducing the use of air conditioning, while rainwater harvesting systems and wastewater treatment contribute to an efficient use of this element, reusing it for irrigation and maintenance of green and exterior areas.

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