Architecture&Life: CAAC / Paredes Pino

Architects: Paredes Pino - Fernando G. Pino, Manuel G. de Paredes
Location: Islas Sisargas c/v Formentera c/v Cies, Cordoba, Spain
Collaborators: Raquel Blasco Fraile, David Pérez Herranz
Consultors: Rafael Pérez Morales,Robert Brufau, Xavier Aguiló, María José Camporro, BOMA S.L. (structures), ARGU, Ingeniería (mechanical engineering)
Contractor: Ferrovial
Promotor: Procórdoba. Proyectos de Córdoba Siglo XXI
Project Area: 11,920 sqm
Budget: 3,259,924.66 €
Project Year: 2007-2010
Photographs: Jorge López Conde

Its location close to the railway station of the AVE high speed train in Cordoba city can take advantage of this gap as a unique opportunity, giving the character and scale necessary to assume as a new focus of interest not only confined to the neighborhood, but as a magnet in conjunction with the city.

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We opted for a solution that allows a wide variety of uses. It offers a covered area, protected from the weather, which will house a temporary market two days a week and other activities at other times.

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It therefore poses a solution based on prefabricated circular elements that vary in height and diameter and arranged in a flexible manner to allow a similar vision of an urban forest of shadows. The parasols also solve the artificial lighting in the same item and allow drainage of water inside.