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架构师提供的文本描述。需要更新位于马德里北部郊区的办公大楼，这被认为是一个充分利用未充分利用的建筑物的机会。一次又一次的干预使它变得越来越没有意义，空间组织结构的分裂和混乱，以及一个难以从城市环境中看到它的环境。该运营为该公司制定了一项新的空间管理政策，将大楼变成了新的公司总部。

Text description provided by the architects. The need to renew the premises of an office block located in a suburb in the north area of Madrid was perceived as a chance to make the most out of an underused building. One intervention after another had made it more and more meaningless, with a broken up and confusing spatial organization structure and an environment that made it difficult for it to be seen from the urban surroundings. The operation entailed a new space management policy for the company, which turned the building into its new corporate headquarters.

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从形式上看，该项目旨在使建筑物的特殊空间条件突出。它主要侧重于三个要素：庭院、灵活的楼层组织和建筑物的形象，以及节约的投资，这就要求在所有干预措施中都要非常精确。

From a formal point of view, the project intended to make the particular spatial conditions of the building stand out. It did so by focusing mainly on three elements: the courtyard, the flexible organization of the floors and the image of the building, along with a thrifty investment, which called for extraordinary precision in all interventions.

从外面看，这座建筑物很难被人理解。这是一个紧凑的体积，没有一个明确的前面，因为主要入口是在一个小的陡峭的小街，垂直于主路，在那里的汽车入口。此外，入口本身低于地面。另一方面，从胡梅拉路上可以看到的东面立面属于建筑物的一个小海湾，它留在停车场后面，停车场的屋顶和三个通风单元的棚屋突出。

From the outside, the building was hardly perceived in a comprehensible way. It was a compact volume without a clear front due to the main entrance being in a small steep side street, perpendicular to the main road, where the car entrance was located. Furthermore, the entrance itself was below ground level. On the other hand, the east elevation, visible from the Road to Humera, which belongs to one of the short building’s bays, remained behind the car park, out of which its roof and three ventilation unit huts protruded.

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入口处被改变了，产生了一个巨大的开放广场，结果是取消了所有独立的凸起的体积。这座建筑是在它最显眼的角落打开的，打破了门面的均匀性。

The entrance was changed, generating a great open square as a consequence of doing away with all the detached protruding volumes. And the building was opened on its most visible corner, breaking the façade’s uniformity.

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在有陶瓷包层的立面前，固定了不同不透明度的镀锌冷拔钢保护板，并根据立面的方向，将不同尺寸的卧式斜板连接在一起，以避免直射阳光。该建筑立面的提议力求在不改变其大小或开口的情况下改善其热性能和形象。

In front of the façade, which has ceramic cladding, galvanized cold-drawn steel protection slats of varying opacity were fixed, joined by horizontal catwalks of variable size according to the orientation of the façade with the idea of avoiding direct sun light. The proposal for the building’s façades sought to improve their thermal properties and their image without changing their size or their openings.

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从功能的角度看，作为一个基本的起点，要重新组织和安排使用，使办公室和技术室变得独立，不相互干扰。因此，DPC和设备室集中在底层和地下室，上层将是办公室。这种分配允许流通地区和建筑服务都是独立的。唯一的干预发生在内部分配和装修，使建筑物保持其结构和通信核心。隔断和屏幕被拆除，在较高的楼层，然后重组为一个开放的规划办公室。

From a functional point of view, as a basic starting point, the uses were to be reorganized and ordered so that offices and technical rooms became independent and didn’t interfere with each other. Hence, the DPCs and equipment rooms were concentrated on the lower ground floor and basement and the upper floors would house the offices. This distribution allows for both the circulation areas and the building services to be independent. The only intervention took place in the inside distribution and the finishes so that the building maintained its structure and its communication cores. Partitions and screens were done away with in the upper floors and then reorganized as an open plan office.

第一层至第三层保持类似的空间结构。通讯核心集中了地板的所有设施(厕所、档案、自动售货机等)。而门面被解放了，从而允许在会场的其余部分建立一个开放的组织。工作站是按照开放的计划安排的，总是带有自然光，它是由复制区引导的，设想为由低屏幕划定的小空地。两个服务核心位于楼层两端，使办公室的设置具有极大的灵活性。

First to third floors maintain a similar spatial structure. The communication cores concentrate all the floor’s amenities (toilets, archive, vending machines, etc.) and the façades were liberated, thus allowing an open organization in the rest of the floor. The work stations were organized in an open plan scheme, always with natural light, which was guided from the reprography areas, conceived as small open spaces delimited by low screens. The two service cores are located on either ends of the floors and allow for great flexibility in the setting up of the offices.

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庭院仅供维修之用，并被暖通空调机械占用，是干预行动的另一个重点。天井的墙壁，与小的深色陶瓷件，覆盖了一个连续的轻漆涂层，提供了更大的亮度，以空间俯瞰它。在里面，天井是独立于垂直的核心，它通过释放它的四个高度而分离。和建筑物的入口处一样，从核心到办公室的入口就在天井对面，同样也达到了空间的视觉振幅。增加了釉面面积，用金属釉代替盲角墙，并与现有的玻璃进行了类似的调制。在办公室，一旦处理了窗户的镜像效应，两个海湾之间就实现了更大的视觉联系，从而使整个楼层的空间感觉更加清晰。

The courtyard, accessible only for maintenance duties and occupied by HVAC machinery, was another focal point of the intervention. The patio walls, cladded with small dark ceramic pieces, were covered with a continuous light-finish coating, providing greater brightness to the spaces that overlook it. Inside, the patio is independent from the vertical cores; it became detached by freeing its four elevations. As with the entrance to the building, the entrance to the offices from the cores is opposite the patio, again achieving that visual amplitude of the space. The glazed area was increased, substituting the blind corner walls with glazing with metalwork and modulation similar to the existing ones. From the offices, once the mirror effect of the windows was dealt with, a greater visual link was achieved between the two bays, allowing for the spatial perception of the whole floor.

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一个长方形的长条形，以倾斜的角度改变其方向，组成一个开放的天花板，作为一个视觉过滤器，它配置和特点一个划定的室外空间。

A pergola of rectangular strips, which change their orientation in oblique angles, make up an open ceiling, which serves as a visual filter and that configures and characterizes a delimited outdoor space.

Architects ACXT

Location Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Category Office Buildings

Architect in Charge Borja Aróstegui Chapa, Jose Luis Álvarez Teixeira, Ana Peigneux

Project Director Ana Diaz González

Project Architects Ana Diaz González, Javier Álvarez de Tomás

Project Management Ana Díaz González, Javier Álvarez de Tomás

Area 13750.0 sqm

Project Year 2013

Photographs Miguel de Guzmán