Language:

Cap Pont 3. University building

Cultural Buildings

Fact sheet

Site: Lleida
Client: Comissionat per a Universitats i Recerca. Generalitat de Catalunya.
Year of the project: 1998
Construction: 2000
Area: 7.860 m²
Awards: First Price Competition.
Presented in the Venetian Biennale 2004.

Morphologically, the building constitutes itself as an “alter ego” of its neighbors’ in respect to the façade overlooking to the green mound that serves as contention bank to the river; meanwhile the Campus façade adapts to the specific needs of the final building from the faculty group. The entrance access from the Jaime II and Campus Streets are suggested in the front by great openings that help configure the circulatory direction of the hallway.


The curve shape of the bloc corresponds to the Departments (more than 50% of the area), and have a double purpose: To open up the offices to use the maximum perimeter towards the south. And secondly, make the interior concavity favor the vertical communication grouping the whole, while exteriorly integrating the volumes with the complementary neighboring structure, finishing the sequences of the faculty buildings in front of the river and amplifying the space in relation to the elongated structure of the student housing already built.

         
Occupancy of the maximum perimeter facing South

Occupancy of the maximum perimeter facing South

                                                                                                                                                                                     

  • Occupancy of the maximum perimeter facing South
  • Front on retaining wall of the river
  • Concavity which favors the concentration of vertical communications
  • Internal articulation of the building
  • View from lobby
  • Detail of urbanization
  • Auditorium
  • Ground floor
  • First floor
  • Transverse section

DOWNLOADS: