New urban waste recycling plant

Ábalos & Herreros (2)
Involved architects (1)
Ábalos & Herreros
Iñaki Ábalos Vázquez
Juan Herreros Guerra
Involved architects
Ángel Jaramillo

The Valdemingómez area is located in the southeast corner of the municipality of Madrid, where it offers its most depressed area, an arid and degraded territory, historically dedicated to the dumping of the city's waste. The project is part of a series of actions aimed at obtaining a rational waste treatment and recycling system, as well as the transformation and incorporation of its land into the future Southeast Regional Park, one of the city's most attractive bets for balancing the social and environmental north-south differences.

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The recycling building centralises a heterogeneous set of waste sorting and processing processes, storage, workshops and offices, unified under a large sloping green roof that echoes both the gravitational character of the process and the original hillside on which it sits, "restored" by taking advantage of the compost produced. The building is wrapped in recycled polycarbonate, unifying the different programmes and incorporating a museum area with a visitors' route aimed at raising environmental awareness among citizens.

Luis Asín
Luis Asín

This green building, the polycarbonate, the lightly bolted structure and the interior finishes as a whole echo this spirit, composing a construction system that shows the greatest environmental commitment that can be obtained today with the techniques available on the market. The installation has a service life of 25 years. After this period, it can be recycled as park equipment or dismantled by recycling its components.

Luis Asín

General information

New urban waste recycling plant

YEAR

2000

Status

Built

Option to visit

Closed to visitors

Address

Rvn. Real de merinas, s/n

28051 Valdemingomez - Madrid

Latitude: 40.334002

Longitude: -3.589811999

Classification

Building materials

Steel

Polycarbonate

Built area

más de 20000 m²

Awards

VI BEAU

FAD 2000

ACUE 2001

III BIAU

Involved architects

Ángel Jaramillo

Iñaki Ábalos Vázquez

Juan Herreros Guerra

Involved architectural firms

Ábalos & Herreros

Information provided by

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz

estudio Herreros

EUMies Award

Website links

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz

estudio Herreros

EUMies Award

III BIAU

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