Carlos Santamaría Centre by JAAM j0 \! V2 R& B" G/ L+ B
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Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us these photographs of a curved concrete library in San Sebastian with a narrow courtyard driven through its centre., q Q% t# G S* l
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Completed in 2008 by Ander Marquet Ryan of Spanish architects [url=http://www.jaam.es/]JAMM, the Carlos Santamaría Centre is located on the campus of the University of the Basque Country.
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Timber-panelled walls surround the secluded courtyard, which separates the two-storey building into two asymmetrical halves./ T5 ?2 L7 _' ]4 j
* J: Y G: D8 zThe library’s book collection is housed on two storeys of the larger half, while the smaller part contains separate study rooms and a lecture theatre.1 M, l2 @* d, j. V/ @! ^0 X6 R) w
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The round concrete exterior walls converge into a point at the front entrance to give the building a teardrop-shaped plan. Students walk through this pointed entrance into a double-height colonnade, where L-shaped timber columns surround a glass wall and roof.
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( D/ |+ z$ y$ v2 }& u, N# APhotographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre previously photographed the helter-skelter-like Centro Niemeyer by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, which you can see here.. b" S4 @( a+ U% F1 c2 g
Here’s some information from the architect:
0 X' K* ^" S* M) A9 j& B& zThe Carlos Santamaría Centre, located in San Sebastian is an advanced data centre and library, linked to the Ibaeta University Campus and the result of a competition developed by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
% ]5 U4 G3 q& B( o" a The building is conceived as a huge container, shaped from a spontaneous outline following the natural curve of the lot. The line is the wall containing the two blocks arranged in a north-south direction, and its vertex is at the place we consider the most important: the building’s main access, which opens up like a large mouth, pointing the vertex towards the sky.
7 \& T( z7 }) Z; C! L4 M9 IThe division of the construction into two blocks also makes the creation of a private, inner garden possible, like an extension of the spaces that overlook it. It is a quiet, green area, accessible for strolling, reading and group meetings, always lighted from the south and north, an outdoor counterpoint to urban noise, inside the building.
( ?8 g( } a. K: y With regard to its construction, the principal façade of the building is a curved wall of 25cm made out of white self-compacting concrete. On the other hand, in the garden which divides the building the solution of the facades consists of IPE wood planks.
( L! |, r U& E4 y; m Architect: Ander Marquet Ryan, JAAM sociedad de arquitectura s.l.p.7 p Q! m; N5 t' x' K" P. Y' |
Quantity surveyor: Juncal Aldamizechevarría5 d, @; s/ m m' l
 Collaborators: June Gómez Alonso, Emmanuele Pibiri, Naia Landa Méndez, Mario Domínguez Maestre
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 Instalaciones: PGI (project), JG ingenieros (construction).
- e/ ]) @# @8 j3 m6 w* hDeveloper: Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU)
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Construction company: Construcciones Moyua1 o; d3 R5 t7 H x1 V
Date of project: January 20081 @" I2 D& E& ?6 W- _* T S- H
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End of construction: July 20118 I+ G) I( x1 {9 V
Area: 24.000m²
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