EDU LOPEZ ARCHITECTS
Police Cooperation Center
Location: Tuy, Spain.
Date: Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
Typology: Office.
Size: 1.193 sqm
Status: Built.
Client: Alicante Provincial Council.
Collaborators: Carlos de Andrés, Sandra Lanza, Jose Julio Díaz, Rocio Acedo, Sergio Vega, Jaime Santos, Carlos Manuel Moreno, Julia Socias, Ismael Calatayud (Facilities, structural)
Covers that overlap each other, hiding introspective volumes underneath.
The shape of the plot, the topography, and the necessary setbacks explain the articulation with respect to the central corridor that organizes the circulation of the building with different volumes – functional boxes, which are adapted to the alignments of the plot with the normative setbacks. Topographically, the flat plot does not condition the design.
These boxes are arranged on the plot in an aligned manner to a central corridor that is articulated in two displaced semi-corridors and distributes the entire program, leaving between box and box a crack-shaped opening to indirectly introduce light to the internal distributor corridor, with the objective of creating a pleasant and not narrow space. The “programmatic boxes” are distributed according to the functions of the program of needs, in such a way that an easy reading of the interior spaces can be made. These spaces are distributed from the most public to the most private as one advances along the distribution corridor, in such a way that the spaces intended for offices and official dependencies are in the first part of the building, leaving the technical spaces at the back of the building, and at the very end, as a termination of the corridor, the covered parking.
Exterior view
A first floor is established at the beginning of the building and corresponds to the offices of the security forces, in such a way that the offices are divided into two levels connected by a linear staircase with two consecutive flights. This staircase, which is inserted in a void, not only connects the two proposed floors, but also serves as separate elements from the circulation corridor and the office spaces, with the aim of providing a minimum of privacy.
These boxes are intended to be given a large unity, so a large continuous roof is created that adapts to the height of the building according to the interior needs, since there will be areas that have two floors while in other areas there will only be one floor, but with different height proportions according to the needs.
Exterior view
This roof, designed as a ribbon, covers the building, creating eaves around its entire perimeter. It is a geometric element that is triangulated in its panels, so that the water always falls towards the exterior of the building and in no case on the vertical exterior walls of the building. The roof clearly divides the building in two through the internal distribution corridor, creating a very marked crack that will introduce overhead light into the interior of the corridor and into the void that is produced at the entrance.
Exterior view
The articulation of the different prismatic bodies of the building around the central corridor and the irregularly inclined roofs with different slopes and slopes for each of the building bodies, and large overhanging eaves generating shadows, and multiple inlets and outlets, make the elevations very varied.
As can be seen in the elevations, in addition to the sets of roofs with large overhanging eaves, the glazed areas corresponding to the work areas and the circulation areas contrast with the existence of completely opaque facades without openings.
Exterior view