Carlos Santamaría Centre by JAAM. s# l6 o9 y: E
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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.
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' B/ L( Y* L( k2 J, WCompleted 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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7 Z6 e8 h5 v$ O- b8 }Timber-panelled walls surround the secluded courtyard, which separates the two-storey building into two asymmetrical halves.
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The 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.
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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.+ M5 E) d/ O4 d. b
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Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre previously photographed the helter-skelter-like Centro Niemeyer by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, which you can see here.. u9 Q" i4 g6 w" ~3 b+ {
Here’s some information from the architect:
; G+ F( u$ h1 B9 p8 lThe 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).
" t @" ]0 C/ t. N+ e1 N 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.) i0 ], f4 q7 m
The 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./ S6 o* A! B4 ^6 \ N$ g6 f0 p
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.8 _: J( A, e; A" v7 Q* P1 p
Architect: Ander Marquet Ryan, JAAM sociedad de arquitectura s.l.p.6 `+ A& v5 ?% i! H- a
Quantity surveyor: Juncal Aldamizechevarría
+ S; `- w0 O( A, F Collaborators: June Gómez Alonso, Emmanuele Pibiri, Naia Landa Méndez, Mario Domínguez Maestre
8 O% H2 y% {2 \& w+ \Structure: Minteguia y Bilbao
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9 a3 G; j) r/ JDeveloper: Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU)& A7 c( c& m% R! N0 a
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Construction company: Construcciones Moyua& q" n: C& w. y* N. e) E8 {0 `1 P
Date of project: January 2008
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8 k @, a5 f4 o/ P: B* s- IEnd of construction: July 2011
$ v v0 x1 v/ PArea: 24.000m² m# @" F5 l! N/ z
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