Power plant

aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje (2)
aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje
Iñaki Alday Sanz
Margarita Jover Biboum

At the northern vertex of the Ranillas meander, two buildings, SET and DHC, are being built to house facilities related to the generation and transformation of energy with a very high level of both technical and urban requirements: they form a large part of the façade of the Metropolitan Water Park and are the first buildings at one of the strategic entrances to the city.

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The DHC building is a facility that would normally be located on the outskirts of the city or in industrial environments, and which, in areas such as the Forum 2004 in Barcelona, adopts concealment strategies. However, we have chosen not to hide the installation: it is not possible to bury it due to the flooding of the site, while at the same time expressing our desire for visibility and urbanity.

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We adopted two strategies: to discipline it within the general volumetric arrangement and to make it comprehensible through the possibility of public access and the expression of its functioning to the outside. The aim of the installation is to optimise the production of heat and cold by centralising it, using the river water for cooling and co-generating electricity.

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The reduction in energy consumption is 20% and some 20,000 tonnes of gas emission reduction compared to conventional systems. It consists of a large semi-buried water storage tank (11,000 m3) and an adjacent body containing the machinery. Pumps and heat exchangers are located in the second basement, transformers, motors and chillers on the ground floor, control and boilers (5 units of up to 60 tonnes each) on the second floor.

The building is made of fair-faced concrete, tinted dark grey on the inside and outside, with a 25 cm thick load-bearing skin structure.

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General information

Power plant

YEAR

2008

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit from public roads

Address

Ave. de José Atarés,

50015 Zaragoza - Zaragoza

Latitude: 41.67512168

Longitude: -0.898675799

Classification

Building materials

Concrete

Polycarbonate

Construction system

Structural shell of black tinted reinforced concrete with corrugated sheet metal formwork with deployè grille enclosures for ventilation and alveolar polycarbonate plates in the explosion zones, support for urban video-art screens.

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

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Involved architects

Iñaki Alday Sanz

Margarita Jover Biboum

Collaborators

Artec3, Maurici Ginés (Lighting and façade Medium)

Static, Gerardo Rodríguez (Structures)

Jesús Arcos (Architect)

BIS Arquitectos; David García (Structures)

Catalina Salvà (Architect)

Ingenieros consultores Grupo JG, Amalia Fuentes (Installations)

Lorena Bello (Architect in charge of the project)

Filippo Poli (Architect)

Involved architectural firms

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