Aesthetic Integration and a Superior Climate in Barcelona - Porta Fira Towers and Telefónica Corporate Headquarters with TROX Technology
09/08/2010
Barcelona is evolving into one of the major European cities for modern architecture. In the Spanish city, structures are emerging which present new and complex challenges in building technology. TROX meets these challenges and is the partner for ventilation technology in a number of these projects.
Air conditioning in the PortaFiraTowersdesigned by Toyo Ito and B720 Arquitectos
The renovation of the Gran Vía in Barcelona, as it passes through L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, is generating a new zone with a concentration of business developments, homes and offices. These developments include the new trade fair grounds of Fira 2000 and the two striking towers, sharing a common atrium, that rise up alongside. The towers, designed by Toyo Ito and B720 Arquitectos, hailed as another of Barcelona’s great architectural icons, are two examples of aesthetic integration, renovation and functionality. The perpendicular building consists of offices, while the other, with a rotating clover-shaped floor and a perspective that alters as it rises, houses a hotel.
Mixed air flow, VSD, VDW and TKM air-handling units are some of the systems and solutions that TROX has contributed to the climate-control project of the office building belonging to the major real estate company, Realia.
TROX Chilled Beam Technology for the new Telefónica Corporate Headquarters opening at the end of 2010
Telefónica’s future Catalonian headquarters will be in Barcelona’s Avenida Diagonal and will occupy a total built surface area of 34,000 m2 x 110 metres high.
Extremely spacious, with a light and luminous appearance due to the light that enters by filtering between the thin arched ribs of the facades, this 24-floor rhombus-shaped design by the well-known architect Enric Massip-Bosch will transform the coastline of Barcelona into an outstanding and extremely avant-garde architectural zone. Here, it will share the limelight with its famous neighbours, the Forum building by De Meuron and the Spiralling Tower by Zaha Hadid.
Promoted by the Zona Franca Consortium, which oversees some of the largest current and future works in Barcelona, this advanced engineering project employed TROX’s chilled beam technology, supplying more than 1500 DID-E active chilled beams which the company Sogesa was responsible for installing.
This same induction philosophy had already been used in the major climate control project for Teléfonica’s District C in Madrid, where more than 31,000 DID 300B active chilled beams were fitted. The main difference between the Madrid and the Barcelona beams is their visibility, with the one-way discharging DID-E beams being fitted as hidden elements.
Caption: The Porta Fira Towers co-define the skyline of Barcelona
TROX is the leader in the development, manufacture and sale of components and systems for the air conditioning and ventilation of rooms. With 25 subsidiaries across 22 countries and 14 production plants, TROX is the European market leader for ventilation and air conditioning systems and enjoys worldwide success. Founded in 1951 and with a staff of 3000 employees, TROX generated sales around the globe of more than 340 million EUR in 2009. With more than 25 sales offices and over 50 representatives and importers, TROX products and concepts are known all over the world.
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