I am actually in love with this front facade of this building. It reminds me of a centipede.

I love the linear form of it, and the movement it creates on the front of the building. Not only that, it has given me an idea for my design. Given that I am essentially designing an addition to an already existing train station with an arguably iconic and famous history, perhaps bringing some of that in to the building via old railway sleepers and tracks? Not only that, I think it would be a really great way to help reference the past of the infrastructure without giving into an old style of design or the like. Not only that, in terms of sustainability, but the looks of it, most of the materials that could be used are currently lying around the site.

Audenasa Building / Vaillo + Irigaray

Architects: Vaillo & Irigaray + Eguinoa
Location: Noain, Spain
Project Manager: David Eguinoa Erdozain
Collaborators: Daniel Galar, Lucia Astrain, Luis Miguel Navarro, Oscar Martínez, Ángel Álvarez, Juan Carlos de la Iglesia, Isabel Franco
Rigger: Iñaki Pérez
Structural engineering: Tadeo Errea- LANDABE
Facade engineering: LARUMBE (celosía); ALTRES (aluminum)
Promotor: Audenasa
Contractor: Eycons
Project Year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Jose Manuel Cutillas

floor plans

The building offers an image derived morphological genesis of his own: a tablet suspended, almost floating on the gentle slope green -slightly twisted-repeating the same gestures that the topography- and offers a gesture of successive concave ribs against the sun:

section

In a flat landscape -almost one-dimensional-, as is the highway, immeasurably longitudinal, the building from where it controls and directs the company, contorts, and stands as lookout (also longitudinal), as a new “lookout” observer… Two slabs of concrete lattice steel tape the or-ten blocks south and north reused tire. The picture of the complex aims to establish close ties to the movement and infrastructure relating to transport, and perhaps away from the usual urban readings in similar programs.