Veles e Vents

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos (6)
Involved architects (1)
b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos
Fermín Vázquez Huarte-Mendicoa
Ana Bassat
Peco Mulet
Pedro Baltar
Pablo Garrido
Sonia Cruz
Involved architects
Albert Freixes

Strategically located at the end of the harbour basin, the old Foredeck building, renamed Veles e Vents in honour of the poem by Ausiàs March and epicentre of the America's Cup sailing regattas in 2007, is a marvellous vantage point from which to follow the sporting events taking place during the regatta or simply to enjoy the views.

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The building is composed of four platforms arranged at different heights and slightly offset from each other, creating a changing play of shadows and transparencies that help to integrate the building with the port landscape and the marine environment.

Hisao Suzuki
EUmies Award

The cantilevered platforms, free of intermediate pillars, appear to be suspended - apparently - in the void, although in reality they rest on four structural supports, two of them vertical and the other two slightly inclined, which in turn constitute communication and installation cores.

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The façades, on the other hand, are dematerialised in large glazed planes fitted between the platforms which, thanks to their overhang and projection in the most unfavourable aspects, mitigate the incidence of direct solar radiation and generate pleasant shaded spaces.

The layout of the 10,500 m² Veles e Vents building includes mainly semi-outdoor spaces for outdoor access and lounging, as well as a public bar and restaurant.

Hisao Suzuki
EUmies Award

The building has a reduced palette of materials: concrete structure, metal suspended ceilings with recessed linear luminaires and wooden exterior and resin interior floors.

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The predominance of white throughout the building celebrates the light of the Mediterranean and contrasts with the intense tones of the interior furnishings which provide the counterpoint.

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General information

Veles e Vents

YEAR

2006

Status

Built

Option to visit

Free visit

Address

St. Moll de la Duana,

46024 Valencia - València

Latitude: 39.461803174

Longitude: -0.324890586

Classification

Built area

5001 - 20000 m²

Awards

IX BEAU

FAD 2008

ACUE 2007

Involved architects

Albert Freixes

Ana Bassat

Fermín Vázquez Huarte-Mendicoa

Pablo Garrido

Peco Mulet

Pedro Baltar

Sonia Cruz

Involved architectural firms

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

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Website links

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David Chipperfield

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