COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS

Satellite Air Traffic Center Receives COAM +10 Award in Madrid We are thrilled to announce that our project, Satellite Air Traffic Center in Madrid, has received the First Mention in the COAM Awards, category COAM +10, granted by Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid - COAM. This prestigious award acknowledges architectural works that have demonstrated a significant and lasting contribution over more than a decade. Satellite Air Traffic Center, a high-performance corporate building, was designed to merge functionality, innovation, and resilience—qualities that continue to shine through today. Located in Madrid, this building serves as an important hub for corporate activity and reflects a commitment to excellence in design and sustainability. It remains a vibrant and effective workspace, supporting the evolving needs of its users and contributing to the city’s dynamic landscape. We are incredibly proud of this achievement, which would not have been possible without the outstanding teamwork of our colleagues, partners, and very specially our client, ENAIRE, a public organization full of talented and groundbreaking professionals who made possible this trailblazer project. This recognition motivates us to keep pushing the boundaries of architectural design, creating spaces that are as enduring as they are inspiring. If you are in Madrid, you are cordially invited to join us to the Awards Ceremony on Thursday, October 10, at 8:00 p.m., Hortaleza, 63. status: built type of building: corporate, IT, high-performance, airports client: Government of Spain architect: Juan Collbarreu aerospace engineer: Alfonso Martínez site: Madrid - Spain EU awards: First Prize in ideas competition, Aena Ministerio de Fomento. First Prize in International Veteco-Asefave Awards 2004. Selected work for the FAD Award 2004

A Building with No Constructive Details At the Olympic Ice Arena, we aimed for more than just sustainable architecture. We sought to create "a place with no oppositions, a soft place." The arena challenges conventional construction with its design —there are no constructive details beyond the essential materials of concrete, brick, and ice. The entire structure is encapsulated by a delicate no-detail glass membrane, the only visible architectural element, seamlessly integrating the building with its environment. This uncomplicated approach allows the landscape to take center stage, providing an experience where the architecture disappears, and the natural surroundings speak for themselves. #SustainableArchitecture #GreenBuilding #OlympicIceArena

Happy to meet so many talented people next May in Madrid

Our team has worked hard, side by side, to reach every goal and overcome every challenge. Now, it’s time to recharge and enjoy some well-deserved holidays. We bid farewell to this season with the satisfaction of our achievements and the excitement for what’s to come. Thank you all for being part of this journey!

Satellite Air Traffic Center by COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS turns 20   An ideas competition was held in 2000 to design the first building capable of controlling the new constellation of 30 Galileo satellites, posing a technological challenge not only for Spain but also for the European Union. Situated next to Jarama and Henares rivers, the banks and paths existing on the site lead up to the roof, which becomes a friendly extension of the Spanish Meseta, the vast plateau present in the heart of peninsular Spain. A glass plane overflows the façade and opens onto the horizontal landscape of the area and the flights of the airplanes that use the nearby runways. It is also a building open to the zenith. A parallel-to-the-glass-façade slit bathes the internal spaces with controlled daylight and allows views of the starry night. 20 years later, the building is even more cutting-edge. It houses the European Navigation Satellite System, centralized conventional control systems, European and international space systems. It develops Galileo projects, plans the growth of its activities with new technologies, and plays a key role in the current critical scenario in which the EU finds itself. The inner slit has become a plaza and a place of teamwork, populated daily by a dynamic and growing international community of scientists. The building has been useful to its society, a dream achieved but still growing.    status: built type of building: corporate, IT, high-performance, airports client: Government of Spain  architect: Juan Collbarreu aerospace engineer: Alfonso Martínez  site: Madrid - Spain EU awards: First Prize in ideas competition, Aena Ministerio de Fomento. First Prize in International Veteco-Asefave Awards 2004. Selected work for the FAD Award 2004. #architecture

Loft I by COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS    “The house blurs the boundaries between housing and city in the same way that urban and domestic dynamics, genders, and generations are now intermingled.”    Loft I does not hide domestic dynamics or limit architecture in private spaces, unlike many interior renovations that often feel embarrassed by tasks like doing laundry or personal grooming.    Loft I is quite the opposite. It uses architecture to configure the entire home, radically opening up the space, promoting continuity, naturalizing domestic dynamics, and blurring the boundaries of the house. Located in a 1955 concrete-framed building that was one of the first to frame the stretch of Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, it is the renovation of an apartment completely disfigured after decades of interior demolition and use as an office.  The house blurs the boundaries between housing and city in the same way that urban and domestic dynamics are now intermingled, creating a real continuity between the city, the street trees, the terrace, and the interior.  Loft I is a continuous space that leaves nothing hidden, suitable for the contemporary user and their fluid understanding of genders and generations, for whom production, resting, meeting, the air and vegetation of the city, art, and the body do not reside in separate rooms.    status: built  type of building: residential, renovation  client: private  site: Madrid - Spain EU  awards: Best Sustainable Apartment Renovation Architecture 2024, Nueva York; Selected work for the CSCAE 2024, Madrid #architecture #design #interiordesign

Textured Tower by COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS Publication by Archdaily. This project is a 32.5 meter high concrete tower for fire training. A vertical decision, which in its plant intensifies the vertical folds. The folds of the concrete improve the vertical inertia, save material, and build a more efficient structure. https://lnkd.in/gGnHk2uW

Solar Hexaprism is the new coliving experience designed by COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS. The fifth facade or roof of the Solar Hexaprism is configured as a micro-city that functionally completes the housing units. It has a solar field of photovoltaic panels, green roof surfaces, urban garden modules for each dwelling, solariums, perimeter jogging path, gymnasium, coworking spaces, laundries, closed and open kitchens, open and closed dining rooms (or meeting rooms) and, in general, places for meeting and communication. These services function as a topological ecosystem of shared functions. Each community activity corresponds to a shape (coworking spaces are rectangles; laundries, pills; kitchens, half-moons; vegetable gardens, cubes...) so that people coexist with their meeting pretexts and occupy the roof with freedom, calm and continuous readaptation.

E8 Building by COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS. Article published by Arquitectura Viva. The area destined for the building is close to pastures and oak groves, and despite the transformations that the construction of new buildings entails, the volume rises with its breaks and relates in a special way to the natural environment. Its geometry offers direct views of the nearby hillside. An open access atrium crosses the building and frames the forest presence of the hill. https://lnkd.in/gH3CkgJz

Solar Hexaprism is the new coliving experience designed by COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS. The building is a six-sided prism that floats above the ground. It rests on the east side and rises on the rest gradually, as the topography descends and moves. This avoids costly earthworks, retaining walls and any abrupt transformation of the existing natural landscape, made up of copses and pedestrian walkways that cross the site. In this way, it is possible to cross the volume underneath, so that the pre-existing paths and vegetation continuity are maintained and an undulating ground porch is produced for games, gymnastics, bicycles, walks, protection from the sun in summer and from the rain in winter. It is a real extension of the street and the natural garden of the plot that will undoubtedly catalyze community life. The fifth facade or roof of the Hexaprism is configured as a micro-city that functionally completes the housing units. It has a solar field of photovoltaic panels, green roof surfaces, urban garden modules for each dwelling, solariums, perimeter jogging path, gymnasium, coworking spaces, laundries, closed and open kitchens, open and closed dining rooms (or meeting rooms) and, in general, places for meeting and communication. These services function as a topological ecosystem of shared functions. Each community activity corresponds to a shape (coworking spaces are rectangles; laundries, pills; kitchens, half-moons; vegetable gardens, cubes...) so that people coexist with their meeting pretexts and occupy the roof with freedom, calm and continuous readaptation.