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Built in Bilboa, Spain in 2008, the site is located in the crossroad of two important streets of the Ensanche, designed in 1862. The restrictive city rules compel to repeat the shape of the neighbouring walls, reducing penthouses according to a curved directive, chamfering the corner and building a tower on it.

The building concentrates services and communications in a vertical spine attached to the longest party hedge and generates seven open floors assigned for offices. Above this, there are two floors for local repre-sentative and institutional use. The board hall takes up the double height of the tower. The assembly hall, its lobby and its appendages are situated in the first basement. Further below there are two parking floors and one fourth level for archives. The car lifts allow access to all the base-ment levels.

The double façade solves not only urban requirements but also those concerning energetic, fire-resistant and acoustic insulation from outside. This climatic improvement enables the elimination of the conventional air-conditioning installation as well as the false ceiling. Thus, the sound produced by the building is reduced, air recirculation in workplaces disap-pears, with a significant increase of

Basque in the GloryBasque Health Department

Words: Nico Saieh

Photographs: Aleix Bagen

Design: Adam Townend

Architects: Coll-Barreu Arquitectos –

Juan Coll-Barreu & Daniel Gutiérrez Zarza

Location: Bilbao, Spain

Collaborators: Fernando de la Maza,

Jorge Bilbao, Pablo Castro, Gorka García

Project year: 2003-2004

Construction year: 2004-2008

Constructed area: 9,200 sqm

Budget: 12,935,436 EURO (US $17,9M)

Structure: Mintegia y Bilbao

Electrical Consultant: ndotec

Safety: Tesysal

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health conditions. The volume occu-pied per floor is also reduced. The façade responds to the investiga-tion launched by Coll-Barreu Archi-tectos in their latest projects, which considers the wrapper as a system. The construction techniques, the operation of the building, the energy exchange, the city and also the very fact, the desire to be ...take part in the system definition, but never the eleva-tion or the composition. The system must provide a valid response to the different situations generated in the façade. Instead of merely set the building on the one hand and shaping the urban space on the other, the façade system should become a social vehicle.

The folded façade generates multiple visual from inside to the streets bel-low, and also from the highest floors to the landscape that surrounds the city, a highly effective mechanism for the incorporation of urban vitalism in-side the building. The workspace ben-efits of the permeable, passable and liveable volume of the façade, that enables the building breathing and the space exchange between inside and outside. The system facade of the building is similar to the experience of sitting at the door of a house, above the threshold, with an eye toward the road and the back into the home.

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Built in Bilboa, Spain in 2008, the site is located in the crossroad of two important streets of the En-sanche, designed in 1862. The restrictive city rules compel to repeat the shape of the neighbouring walls, reducing penthouses according to a curved directive, chamfering the corner and building a tower on it.

The building concentrates services and commu-nications in a vertical spine attached to the long-est party hedge and generates seven open floors assigned for offices. Above this, there are two floors for local representative and institutional use. The board hall takes up the double height of the tower. The assembly hall, its lobby and its append-ages are situated in the first basement. Further below there are two parking floors and one fourth

level for archives. The car lifts allow access to all the basement levels. The double façade solves not only urban require-ments but also those concerning energetic, fire-resistant and acoustic insulation from outside. This climatic improvement enables the elimination of the conventional air-conditioning installation as well as the false ceiling. Thus, the sound produced by the building is reduced, air recirculation in workplaces disappears, with a significant increase of health conditions. The volume occupied per floor is also reduced. The façade responds to the investigation launched by Coll-Barreu Architectos in their latest projects, which considers the wrapper as a system. The con-struction techniques, the operation of the building, the energy exchange, the city and also the very fact,

the desire to be ...take part in the system definition, but never the elevation or the composition. The system must provide a valid response to the dif-ferent situations generated in the façade. Instead of merely set the building on the one hand and shap-ing the urban space on the other, the façade system should become a social vehicle.

The folded façade generates multiple visual from inside to the streets bellow, and also from the high-est floors to the landscape that surrounds the city, a highly effective mechanism for the incorporation of urban vitalism inside the building. The workspace benefits of the permeable, passable and liveable volume of the façade, that enables the building breathing and the space exchange between inside and outside. The system facade of the building is


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similar to the experience of sitting at the door of a house, above the threshold, with an eye toward the road and the back into the home.


The building concentrates services and commu-nications in a vertical spine attached to the long-est party hedge and generates seven open floors assigned for offices. Above this, there are two floors for local representative and institutional use.

The board hall takes up the double height of the tower. The assembly hall, its lobby and its append-ages are situated in the first basement. Further below there are two parking floors and one fourth level for archives. The car lifts allow access to all the basement levels.

The double façade solves not only urban require-ments but also those concerning energetic, fire-resistant and acoustic insulation from outside. This climatic improvement enables the elimination of the conventional air-conditioning installation as well as the false ceiling. Thus, the sound produced by the building is reduced, air recirculation in workplaces disappears, with a significant increase of health conditions. The volume occupied per floor is also reduced.

The façade responds to the investigation launched by Coll-Barreu Architectos in their latest projects, which considers the wrapper as a system. The con-struction techniques, the operation of the building, the energy exchange, the city and also the very fact, the desire to be ...take part in the system definition, but never the elevation or the composition. The system must provide a valid response to the dif-ferent situations generated in the façade. Instead of merely set the building on the one hand and shap-ing the urban space on the other, the façade system should become a social vehicle.

The folded façade generates multiple visual from inside to the streets bellow, and also from the high-est floors to the landscape that surrounds the city, a highly effective mechanism for the incorporation

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Words: Nico Saieh











Budget: 12,935,436 EURO (US $17,9M)



Safety: Tesysal

Built in Bilboa, Spain in 2008, the site is located in the crossroad of two important streets of the Ensanche, designed in 1862. The restrictive city rules compel to repeat the shape of the neigh-bouring walls, reducing penthouses according to a curved directive, chamfering the corner and build-ing a tower on it.

The building concentrates services and communi-cations in a vertical spine attached to the longest party hedge and generates seven open floors as-signed for offices. Above this, there are two floors for local representative and institutional use. The board hall takes up the double height of the tower. The assembly hall, its lobby and its append-ages are situated in the first basement. Further below there are two parking floors and one fourth

level for archives. The car lifts allow access to all the basement levels.

The double façade solves not only urban require-ments but also those concerning energetic, fire-re-sistant and acoustic insulation from outside. This climatic improvement enables the elimination of the conventional air-conditioning installation as well as the false ceiling. Thus, the sound produced by the building is reduced, air recirculation in workplaces disappears, with a significant increase of health conditions. The volume occupied per floor is also reduced. The façade responds to the investigation launched by Coll-Barreu Architectos in their latest projects, which considers the wrapper as a system. The construction techniques, the operation of the

building, the energy exchange, the city and also the very fact, the desire to be ...take part in the system definition, but never the elevation or the composition. The system must provide a valid response to the different situations generated in the façade. In-stead of merely set the building on the one hand and shaping the urban space on the other, the façade system should become a social vehicle.

The folded façade generates multiple visual from inside to the streets bellow, and also from the highest floors to the landscape that surrounds the city, a highly effective mechanism for the incorpo-ration of urban vitalism inside the building. The workspace benefits of the permeable, passable


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Words: Nico Saieh











Budget: 12,935,436 EURO (US $17,9M)



Safety: Tesysal

and liveable volume of the façade, that enables the building breathing and the space exchange between inside and outside. The system facade of the building is similar to the experience of sitting at the door of a house, above the thresh-old, with an eye toward the road and the back into the home.Built in Bilboa, Spain in 2008, the site is located in the crossroad of two impor-tant streets of the Ensanche, designed in 1862. The restrictive city rules compel to repeat the shape of the neighbouring walls, reducing penthouses according to a curved directive, chamfering the corner and building a tower on it.

The building concentrates services and communications in a vertical spine at-tached to the longest party hedge and generates seven open floors assigned for offices. Above this, there are two floors for local representative and institutional use. The board hall takes up the double height of the tower. The assembly hall, its lobby and its appendages are situated in the first basement. Further below there are two parking floors and one fourth level for archives. The car lifts allow access to all the basement levels.

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The double façade solves not only urban requirements but also those concerning energetic, fire-resistant and acoustic insulation from outside. This climatic improvement enables the elimination of the conventional air-conditioning installation as well as the false ceiling. Thus, the sound produced by the building is reduced, air recirculation in workplaces disap-pears, with a significant increase of health conditions. The volume occu-pied per floor is also reduced.

The façade responds to the investiga-tion launched by Coll-Barreu Archi-tectos in their latest projects, which considers the wrapper as a system. The construction techniques, the operation of the building, the energy exchange, the city and also the very fact, the desire to be ...take part in the system definition, but never the eleva-tion or the composition.

Basque in the GloryBasque Health Department is unveiledWords: Nico Saieh











Budget: 12,935,436 EURO (US $17,9M)



Safety: Tesysal

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The building concentrates services and commu-nications in a vertical spine attached to the long-est party hedge and generates seven open floors assigned for offices. Above this, there are two floors for local representative and institutional use. The board hall takes up the double height of the tower. The assembly hall, its lobby and its append-ages are situated in the first basement. Further below there are two parking floors and one fourth level for archives. The car lifts allow access to all the basement levels.

The double façade solves not only urban require-ments but also those concerning energetic, fire-resistant and acoustic insulation from outside. This climatic improvement enables the elimination of the conventional air-conditioning installation as well as the false ceiling. Thus, the sound produced by the building is reduced, air recirculation in workplaces disappears, with a significant increase of health conditions. The volume occupied per floor is also reduced.

The façade responds to the investigation launched by Coll-Barreu Architectos in their latest projects, which considers the wrapper as a system. The con-struction techniques, the operation of the building, the energy exchange, the city and also the very fact, the desire to be ...take part in the system definition, but never the elevation or the composition. The system must provide a valid response to the dif-ferent situations generated in the façade. Instead of merely set the building on the one hand and shap-ing the urban space on the other, the façade system should become a social vehicle.

The folded façade generates multiple visual from inside to the streets bellow, and also from the high-est floors to the landscape that surrounds the city, a highly effective mechanism for the incorporation of urban vitalism inside the building. The workspace benefits of the permeable, passable and liveable volume of the façade, that enables the building breathing and the space exchange between inside and outside. The system facade of the building is similar to the experience of sitting at the door of a house, above the threshold, with an eye toward the road and the back into the home.


while frank gehry’s guggenheim museum made the spanish town of bilbao an international destination, a slew of new projects are continuing to add to its reputation. one of the most recent additions to the cities landscape is the health department headquarters designed by coll-barreu arquitectos.

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The double façade solves not only urban requirements but also those concerning energetic, fire-resistant and acoustic insulation from outside. This climatic improvement enables the elimination of the conventional air-conditioning installation as well

as the false ceiling. Thus, the sound produced by the building is reduced, air recirculation in workplaces disap-pears, with a significant increase of health conditions. The volume occu-pied per floor is also reduced. The façade responds to the investiga-tion launched by Coll-Barreu Archi-tectos in their latest projects, which considers the wrapper as a system. The construction techniques, the operation of the building, the energy exchange, the city and also the very fact, the desire to be ...take part in the system definition, but never the eleva-tion or the composition. The system must provide a valid response to the different situations generated in the façade. Instead of merely set the building on the one hand and shaping the urban space on the other, the façade system should become a social vehicle.

The folded façade generates multiple visual from inside to the streets bel-low, and also from the highest floors to the landscape that surrounds the city, a highly effective mechanism for the incorporation of urban vitalism inside the building. The workspace benefits of the permeable, passable and liveable volume of the façade, that


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Words: Nico Saieh











Budget: 12,935,436 EURO (US $17,9M)



Safety: Tesysal


The building concentrates services and communications in a vertical spine attached to the longest party hedge and generates seven open floors assigned for offices. Above this, there are two floors for local repre-sentative and institutional use. The board hall takes up the double height of the tower. The assembly hall, its lobby and its appendages are situated in the first basement. Further below there are two parking floors and one fourth level for archives. The car lifts allow access to all the base-ment levels. The double façade solves not only urban requirements but also those concerning energetic, fire-resistant and acoustic insulation from outside. This climatic improvement enables the elimination of the conventional air-conditioning installation as well as the false ceiling. Thus, the sound produced by the building is reduced, air recirculation in workplaces disap-pears, with a significant increase of health conditions. The volume occu-

pied per floor is also reduced. The façade responds to the investiga-tion launched by Coll-Barreu Archi-tectos in their latest projects, which considers the wrapper as a system. The construction techniques, the operation of the building, the energy exchange, the city and also the very fact, the desire to be ...take part in the system definition, but never the eleva-tion or the composition. The system must provide a valid response to the different situations generated in the façade. Instead of merely set the building on the one hand and shaping the urban space on the other, the façade system should become a social vehicle.

The folded façade generates multiple visual from inside to the streets bel-low, and also from the highest floors to the landscape that surrounds the city, a highly effective mechanism for the incorporation of urban vitalism inside the building. The workspace benefits of the permeable, passable and liveable volume of the façade, that enables the building breathing and the space exchange between inside and outside. The system facade of the building is similar to the experience of sitting at the door of a house, above the threshold, with an eye toward the road and the back into the home.

Basque in the GloryBasque Health Department is unveiledWords: Nico Saieh











Budget: 12,935,436 EURO (US $17,9M)



Safety: Tesysal

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