ARYS Offices

A building connected with the landscape and with nature, where the windows can be opened and the outside air provided directly from the outside through the windows. Where the work light was natural. A building where, as in a house, the interior is a unitary and recognizable space, which can be explored and be in contact with the rest of the residents.
Simultaneously with the origins of this commission, I did the Diploma in Sustainability at the School of Architecture of the Catholic University and I decided to work on this project from this point of view from its origin.
One of the most representative aspects of the way of working on this project was the theme of the building's facades and their concepts. Taking the client's request not to want a building in the manner of an office tower, but more like a house, the path began by studying the skin that separates the interior from the exterior in an office building.
In a modern office tower, the interior space is separated from the exterior by a glass membrane made up of a curtain wall that allows a view to the exterior and controls the passage of solar rays through the technical characteristics of the crystals. What this skin cannot control in terms of transmission of temperature, radiation and sunlight, is supplied with energy expenditure to counteract the effects of these issues. If the interior space heats up more than is convenient, it is cooled with electrical air conditioning equipment. When natural light cannot reach certain work areas, it is supplemented with artificial lighting produced by electricity. In this case we are talking about an active sustainability building.