CENTRO ADMINISTRATIVO NACIONAL BY OMA

"The Bogotá Centro Administrativo Nacional (CAN) is positioned as a new civic center, located at the midpoint of Calle 26 avenue, the city's main axis that has symbolically charted its growth from the historic downtown to the airport and the international gateway of Colombia.

With a footprint as large as the National Mall in Washington DC, this new city center will serve as the city's government headquarters, with additional mixed use program of residential, educational, retail and cultural developments.

The proposed masterplan utilizes a curved, public space axis to connect the adjacent natural parks to Calle 26 and link the existing districts. With a single gesture, the arc achieves a unified system of green, infrastructural, and programmatic networks.

The new axis divides the site into three districts: (1) an office zone that connects to the existing financial district, (2) an institutional/ governmental zone that is linked to the existing cultural spaces and recreational parks and (3) an educational campus connected to the existing university.

These districts are unified by a green path that extends the meandering paths of the Simon Boliver Park to the National University plaza at other end of the site. This park axis will be programmed with cultural attractions and a bike path that will extend to Bogota's highly successful pedestrian CicloVia network.

OMA's proposal shifts the city's historic downtown center, which Le Corbusier masterplanned between 1947 and 1951 - an early demonstration of the city's longstanding commitment to urban planning. The CAN masterplan will be the largest built institutional masterplan in Latin America after Oscar Neimeyer's Brasilia, built in the 1960s." OMA

COMMUNITY CENTRE BY MACHNÉ ARCHITEKTEN

The field and the stones

The new community centre consists of three main parts (auditorium, music rehearsal room, Town Hall) and the fire department.

The individual functions are as large ‘boulders’ scattered on the site. These species were aligned along important edges (neighbouring houses) and sightlines.

Those stones are connected by the foyer. The fire department serves as the basis of the ‘stones’. Through these separations of the building in the various areas the urban scale of the building fits very well into the existing structure.

The spaces between the ‘stones’ provide glimpses such as the view to the church.

The use of the site and the positioning of the town Hall on the street and the foyer to the north is creating two new squares.

The northern area of the building (foyer) goes over into the existing event space and in the south, a new place, which is flanked by the town hall and the fire department.

Internal Organization

By dividing the building into separate areas, it is possible to give each part its optimal form.

For example, both the auditorium and music rehearsal rooms are polygonal, for acoustic requirements. At the same time, the shaping of the building as ‘stones’ generates exciting architectural spaces.

 

Location: Abfaltersbach, Austria

Architect: Machné Architekten

Project Manager: Philipp Glanzl

Assistance: Michael Kapeller, Arch. Klaus Jahnel.

Structural Consultant: Tragwerksplanung Tagger Ziviltechniker

Area: 1.583,45 sqm.

Year: 2011

Photographs: Machné Architekten

Client:Gemeinde Abfaltersbach

BRENT CIVIC CENTRE BY HOPKINS ARCHITECTS

The landmark new Brent Civic Centre has achieved practical completion in the north London borough of Brent. The multipurpose development allows the Council to realise its vision for a consolidated facility that houses their civic, public and administrative functions under one unified roof, providing office space for 2000 staff.

Located on a prominent site next to two well-known civic icons, Wembley Stadium and Wembley Arena, it will streamline all aspects of the Council's activities and has been designed to become the new hub and heart for the community where residents can meet, shop and eat.

Hopkins Architects’ landmark Civic Centre building for Brent Council has recently started on site. The new development, in the context of two established icons, Wembley Stadium and Wembley Arena, will realise the Council’s vision for a community building consolidating their civic, public and administrative functions on to one site. 

It will streamline the efficient delivery of services to Brent’s diverse community and kick-start regeneration of the northern part of the Wembley Masterplan.

As a development of our work in Hackney, Brent’s new Civic Centre is a further step towards establishing an efficient and sustainable model for civic buildings delivering public services.

Located in the heart of Wembley, it will become a new landmark and public ‘place’ for the residents of Brent providing a wide range of community facilities under one roof, as well as accommodating 2,000 council staff and councillors.

Within the Civic Centre, Hopkins has designed a new multi-purpose community hall, which will accommodate theatre, concerts and large wedding receptions.

Behind this, glazed office wings are open-plan and flexible to provide a future-proofed solution to the diverse community's administrative needs. The building also includes space for retail outlets and a landscaped garden to help it to connect further with the surrounding Wembley Regeneration Area.

The soaring foyer and atrium has been designed as a flexible space within which a large public staircase will become seating for “Wembley Live” performance events. Other functions will include a one-stop shop and a state-of-the-art library and learning centre.

The building aims to achieve BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ through a combination of solar shading, natural ventilation, façade performance and combined cooling, heating and power utilising waste vegetable oil.

 

 

 

 

Location: London, United Kingdom

Architect: Hopkins Architects

Engineer URS

Contractor Skanska

Steelwork contractor Bourne Engineering

Year: 2013

Size: 40,000m2

Client: The London Borough of Brent