Winner of the Rising Structure Prize
Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona, Spain
by: SUMA Arquitectura
The 2024 Winner of the Rising Structure Prize is the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona by SUMA Arquitectura based by Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano in Madrid. The authors based their studio in 2005 and received the competitors to construct the library in 2015. The García Márquez is a pioneering and landmark library that culminates a three-decade plan constructing these amenities in Barcelona. It serves a working class and vindictive neighborhood, missing vital funding for years, that demanded its ‘folks’s palace’ ever since and now enjoys the ‘greatest new library on this planet’, in line with IFLA. This wood construction unfolds as a wealthy sequence of monumental and home areas that welcome neighbors and residents, offering them with snug atmospheres for studying, teamwork, and neighborhood engagement. With meticulous consideration to element, the authors have totally examined and pushed the library program to its fullest potential.
Gabriel García Márquez Library | picture © Jesús Granada
The library’s sculpted kind evokes blocks of stacked books with folded pages. It sits on an elevated plaza that enables fluid pedestrian circulation round and cantilevers over the open space, creating an city lounge that extends the pedestrian and cultural axis of the neighborhood, enclosed by the large present timber. The library affords a reinterpretation of the attribute chamfer of Barcelona’s Eixample to a avenue cross that’s now Plaça Carmen Balcells. The 45º geometry of the chamfer can also be that of the north-south axis. It crosses the whole library, with a triangular courtyard and cores and an envelope that seeks oblique mild in its facades and skylights, avoids frontal views of the police station and appears on the avenue timber. The power has 4,294 sqm distributed over 5 flooring round three vertical cores and a central triangular atrium with zenithal lighting.
second winner of the EUmiesAwards 2024 | picture © Jesús Granada
The location is a small rectangular plot at a cross of two secondary streets behind a police station. The restricted footprint multiplies the variety of flooring with out exceeding the tree cover, and the elevated floor ground permits for mild and independence of use on the decrease ground by the rear backyard. The constructing sits on three cores round a triangular courtyard, related by totally different timber trusses, which home essentially the most unbiased areas and free up open-plan areas. The geometry and place of the cores activate circulation in and across the atrium, multiplying the views and itineraries by the library and turning the void right into a centripetal and connective house with a spiral staircase. A programmatic analysis accompanied the mission to redefine the up to date library mannequin. For its assortment of ECOSYSTEMS, formal and casual conditions, native and world, have been analyzed after which mixed and designed holistically to foster the expertise of accessing, exchanging, and producing information. From the Agora-Showcase to the Discussion board of Concepts or the Palace of Studying, the library is a panorama, a Spiral of Encounters, the place anybody can discover their place.
the sculpted kind evokes blocks of stacked books with folded pages | picture © Jesús Granada
The library options quite a few energy-efficient and sustainable methods, passive and lively, accredited with a LEED Gold certification, such because the atrium that performs as a photo voltaic chimney; a light-weight, ventilated fiberglass envelope with resins that optimizes photo voltaic safety and pure lighting; industrialized and prefabricated development programs; low emission supplies and greenhouse fuel storage from structural wooden; photovoltaic panels; recycled rainwater, and so on.… The timber construction solves the load-bearing necessities, qualifies the areas, orients them, organizes visuals and circulations, defines their scale and character, and is designed holistically along with the remainder of the architectural and programmatic parts to kind a coherent ecosystem. The structural ensemble is essentially resolved with uncovered laminated and cross-laminated timber (the largest uncovered quantity in Europe to this point of development), mixed with singular and reinforcing metal parts and joinery and meeting correct of cabinetmakers. The consequence combines heat, lightness, and visible permeability.
utilizing uncovered laminated and cross-laminated timber | picture © Jesús Granada
The EUmiesAwards 2024 winners have been introduced on twenty fifth April on the CIVA, Centre for Data, Documentation and Exhibitions on the town, structure, panorama and concrete planning within the Brussels-Capital Area, within the context of the European Convention on Architectural Insurance policies (ECAP). On 14 Might 2024, the Awards Ceremony will happen on the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, within the context of the EUmies Awards Day, a day-long-event that may embody lectures by the authors of the successful and finalist works, discussions with the architects, purchasers, policymakers and jury members; and the exhibition with the 362 works collaborating within the EUmies Awards 2024. This occasion will launch the Barcelona Structure Weeks. After Barcelona, the exhibition will embark on its tour round Europe with a gap in Madrid on the Casa de la Arquitectura in July; and on the Architekturzentrum Wien in Vienna in October.
4,294 sqm distributed over 5 flooring | picture © Jesús Granada
