Maintenance hangar for Iberia

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2007 | Competition - Finalist

35.000.000 m² - 24.000.000 €
El Prat de Llobregat - Maintenance hangar for Iberia, Daytime aerial view, skylights and offices.
  • Structures: Sener
  • Installations: Sener
  • Collaborators: Eleuterio Nicolás

A representative building with a rectangular plan. A massive open plan, 160 meters wide and 75 meters deep, with access to tracks on its longest side. Expandable. With natural Lighting. Those requirements made it obvious that the structure would play an important role in the play. So we made it the main character.

El Prat de Llobregat - Maintenance hangar for Iberia, Daytime aerial view, skylights and offices.
El Prat de Llobregat - Maintenance hangar for Iberia, Daytime aerial view, skylights and offices.
  • Structures: Sener
  • Installations: Sener
  • Collaborators: Eleuterio Nicolás

The main beams, of triangular section, lean on the technical body that holds the offices and workshops to project over 75 meters and free the access to the tracks. The secondary structure joins the upper edge of each beam to the lower edge of the next one, tearing the building's skin with skylights that grow to better illuminate the back of the hangar and reaching the façade where the offices are found to generate the accesses. This set of folds becomes the criteria to distort a volume initially pure and offers completely different images to each façade whilst generating a singular volume from the air.

El Prat de Llobregat - Maintenance hangar for Iberia, Daytime aerial view, skylights and offices.
El Prat de Llobregat - Maintenance hangar for Iberia, Daytime aerial view, skylights and offices.
El Prat de Llobregat - Maintenance hangar for Iberia, Daytime aerial view, skylights and offices.