Gorgullón Social Center
GORGULLÓN SOCIAL CENTER
Jose Jorge Santos Ogando + Angel Cid Carballo
ARCHITECTS
Jose Jorge Santos Ogando + Angel Cid Carballo
PHOTOGRAPHS
Santos-Díez
AREA
408.66 m²
YEAR
2010
LOCATION
Pontevedra, Spain
CATEGORY
Social Housing
Text description provided by architect.
The Social Center for the O Gorgullón neighborhood, commissioned by the municipality of Pontevedra , will be the first of a future network of social centers in other neighborhoods of the city.
Inside, a simple, unspecialized organization that allows diverse uses for very different age groups and interests is intended.
Thus, a unique, easily recognizable exterior image is sought, which makes it a reference for the neighborhood and can serve as an image that identifies these types of centers.
A large logo, from the Social Center, configures the facade and penetrates into the interior as furniture, as the only organizing element that runs through the interior generating versatile and easily readable spaces.
This large Pladur and glass furniture, plays with the veiled transparencies and, together with the glass partitions, allow, except the toilets and warehouses, the entire premises to be visually permeable.
In the main façade, and in the secondary ones, green bands allow a diffuse relationship with the outside, a slight barrier, almost vegetal, allows a veiled transparency between the exterior and the interior.
Inside the bands become great graphic motifs on the glasses that differentiate the uses.
Mobile partitions allow you to play with the spaces that specialize with the furniture chosen for its versatility being furniture and play in children's areas and for its ease of transportation and stacking in other areas.
