La Gota Cultural Center
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- Architect
- Losada Garcia
- Location
- Navalmoral de la Mata, Spain
- Year
- 2019
- Application
- Facade
The award winning La Gota building houses in its program a temporary hall, the permanent exhibition of the painter Sofía Feliu, and the Tobacco Museum.
The post-tensioned structure with which the building has been constructed, through active reinforcement, allows to obtain large spans and reduced slab depths. The system increases the resistance capacity of the concrete, reduces its deformations, and decreases its cracking, thus increasing its useful life. This results in more efficient use of materials and a reduction in the overall weight of the structure.
This is enabled by using a FLEXBRICK double skin for the curtainwall, as a reference to the pattern of the ceramic lattices of the old tobacco drying sheds with a reduced portion of its weight. It also creates a thermal cushion that directs the view from the inside, prevents overheating in the summer and conforms the iconic visual image intended for the project.
The volumetry of the Center is attributed to the formation of the tobacco plant, with the principle of equality and diversity, which we also see in these plants -the leaves are equal, but different at the same time-. Thus, the building contains a shaft, as a vertical communication and structure, from which plants of equal size and morphology emerge, but with diversity in height and character and slightly displaced.
Awards
2016 – First Award Archdaily Building of the Year
