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The Espacio Miguel Delibes Building
Alcobendas Office Development, Madrid, Spain ? design by Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos
1 Jan 2017
The Espacio Miguel Delibes Building in Madrid
Design: Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos
Location: Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain ? approx. 13 km north of Spanish capital
Rafael de La-Hoz completes the Espacio Miguel Delibes in Alcobendas
The new building hosts the Universidad Popular, the headquarters of the PhotoEspaña International Centre in Alcobendas, as well as a media library and a citizen?s advice service of the City Council.

Inaugurated with the name of the famous Castilian writer Miguel Delibes, the new building is erected on 6,000 square meters in the Avenida Pablo Iglesias of Alcobendas, one of the youngest areas of the city. This results from the express will of the developer to create an open and dynamic centre so as to generate a singular volumetry.
Rafael de La-Hoz proposes a building with three bodies that clearly differ from each other but are completely interrelated: a glazed cube, a massive volume of greater height and a horizontal perimeter crown, which rises from the ground and creates another space, a place of convergence and exchange.

The gap generated by the perimeter crown forms a large void, a spacious patio in which the other two volumes are inserted, leaving spaces filled with air and light between them. This results in two opposed patios in ...