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text by Jean Nouvel Atelierphoto by Duccio Malagamba and Atelier Jean Nuovel

architect: Atelier Jean Nouvelconsultant: Hubert Tonkastudy: October 1999realization: 2001 (beginning) location: Avenida DiagonalBarcelona - Spainclient: Layetana Inmuebles S.L.Mestre Nicolau 19,08021 Barcelona engineers: Gepro (fluids)R. Brufau & A. Obiol (structure) consultant: Xavier Ferres (Biosca Botey) (Façades)Alain Bony (color)

project architect:AJN: Jean Pierre Bouanhab720: Vander Lemes architects: study: Florence Rabiet, Alexa Plasencia, Emmanuelle Lapointe, Cristina Algas, Julie Fernandez, Francisco Martinez, Manell Bermudo, Pascaline Paris, Elisabeth Farresbuilding site: Francisco Martinez, Pablo Garrido, Alexa Plasencia, Cristina Algas quantity surveyor:Argos Management

program: tower 142 m headquarter of the society Aguas de Barcelona (AGBAR) + auditorium 350 places gross floor area:47.500 sqm (17.500 infrastructure, 30.000 superstructure) model: Etienne Follenfant final images: Artefactorymodel photo: Gaston

Agbar Tower Barcelona

Atelier Jean Nouvel

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It is no tower or skyscraper in the American sense of the term: it is a unique object that emerges from the center of a quite calm city.But it is not a slender, nervous vertical line, like an arrow or like the belfries that generally project from horizontal cities. Rather, it is a fluid mass that cuts into the ground, a geyser with a permanent and carefully dosed pressure.The surface of the building evokes water: smooth, continuous but also vibrant and transparent, because the material reveals its depth, colored and uncertain, luminous and shaded. This architecture issues from the ground, but its weight is not that of stone. Even if it may be a distant echo of old Catalan obsessions carried by the wind blowing from the Monserrat.The irregularity of the material and the light make the belfry of Agbar vibrate against the skyline of Barcelona. A distant mirage, by day and by night. A landmark indicating the entrance of the new diagonal axis of the Las Glorias piazza, a singular object symbolizing the international metropolis.

Non è una torre, un grattacielo nel senso americano del termine: è un oggetto unico che emerge al centro di una città piuttosto calma. Ma non è una linea verticale slanciata e nervosa come una freccia o come i campanili che generalmente punteggiano le città orizzontali. È piuttosto una massa fluida che perfora il suolo, un geyser a pressione permanente e dosata.La superficie dell’edificio evoca l’acqua: liscia, continua ma anche vibrante e trasparente poiché la materia si legge in profondità, colorata e incerta, luminosa e ombreggiata. Questa architettura viene dalla terra ma non ha il peso della pietra. Anche se potrebbe essere una lontana eco delle vecchie ossessioni formali catalane portate dal vento che soffia dal Monserrat.L’irregolarità del materiale e della luce fanno vibrare il campanile di Agbar nello skyline di Barcellona. Lontano miraggio di giorno come di notte.Segnale di ingresso della nuova diagonale dalla piazza di Las Glorias, singolare oggetto simbolo di una metropoli internazionale.

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coffe corner

meeting room

lift L1-L6

waiting area

lift L7-L8

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meeting room

waiting roomwaiting area

type floortotal capacity 43 people

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Diagrama Usos.

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auditorium café hall connective offices board of directors

parking technical plan

multi-function spaces

medical services

auditorium

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café

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board of directors

chair room

café

SALA DE ESPERA

SALA DEL CONSEJO

TRADUCTORES

SALA DEL COMITE EJECUTIVO

SECRETARIA

PLANTA 29. SALA DEL CONSEJO00 02 05 10

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DESPACHO DEL PRESIDENTE

PRIVADO

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SALA DEL COMITE EJECUTIVO

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1. 25th floor – Café for the board of chair1. A. entry1. B. bar1. C. lounge1. D. Storehouse

2. 28th floor – office of the board of directors2. A. entry2. B. secretary’s office2. C. board of directors2. D. meeting room2. E. waiting room

3. 29th floor – deputy hall3. A. entry3. B. deputy meeting room3. C. interpreter room3. D. executive commitee room3. E. secretary’s office

4. 30th floor– president’s office4. A. entry4. B. president’s office4. C. waiting room4. D. executive commitee room4. E. secretary’s office

5. 31st floor – private lounge of the president and panoramic level5. A entry5. B. office5. C. lounge5.D. president’s lounge

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interior skin. Transition cupola-shaft

concrete wall connections, brackets and vertical rods

tin framewindows

insulating silk-skreen printed glass foils

upkeep bandundulated foils

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change of illumination angleswinter solstice

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external skin – diagram of the blades’ angles

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angle 44° – printed glassangle 40° – printed glassangle 34° – printed glassangle 30° – printed glassangle 25° – printed glassangle 20° – printed glass

angle 48° – printed glassangle 53° – printed glassangle 58° – printed glassangle 62° – printed glassangle 67° – printed glassangle 72° – printed glassangle 76° – printed glass

angle 20° – transparent glass

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1. structural wall in reinforced concrete. 2. internal covering of the facade: insulation,

air chamber, corrugated sheet of varnished aluminium

3. external facing: uprights in anodized aluminium, glass panes, support of the panes with different inclinations, with profile in anodized aluminium

4. maintenance footbridge: support shelf, profiles in anodized extruded aluminium, platforms in galvanized steel

5. window module: structural steelwork in varnished aluminium, glass with interspace, perimetral strips in EPDM

6. internal entrance of the window, folded sheet in mirror-polished anodized aluminium

7. internal extrados of the facade 8. structure of tubular profiles in steel9. facade: facing of quartzite slabs, lime mortar,

ribbed web in galvanized steel 10. shutter in varnished aluminium11. external facing in the area of the windows

on the facade with uprights in anodized aluminium, glass panes, supports of the panes with different inclinations, with profile in anodized aluminum and glass sheets

12. cascade13. waterproofing14. swimming pool15. plate in reinforced concrete16. ceiling 17. beams in fireproof laminated steel 18. sheet frame in galvanized steel and reinforced

concrete19. finished technical base platform with sheets in

galvanized steel sheets20. springer of the dome21. plaster ceiling 22. raised floor slab23. parapet 24. projecting slab with variable thickness25. continuous terrace floor26. ceiling of the executive area plan27. horizontal connection between uprights and

external facing28. wind bracing in galvanized steel29. structure of the dome30. internal facing of the dome31. maintenance footbridge of the dome32. external facing of the dome33. fan34. platform for the installation of the antennas 35. upper structure of the external facing. Composite material that is permeable to electromagnetic waves36. internal porthole37. external porthole38. level ceiling39. barrier in varnished steel40. floating slab in concrete placed above acoustic

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