The project restores a historicist building dating from the 1940s, located on a corner of Bilbao’s Ensanche, transforming it into a new corporate headquarters near the Health Department Headquarters previously designed by COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS.
Successive low-quality interior interventions had severely compromised the building’s spatial integrity. The proposal consolidates the existing façades both structurally and constructively while removing the entire internal volume to create a single full-height space, open to both streets through the original classical windows.
Within this new void, a series of suspended volumes accommodates the working areas, both inside the boxes and on their roofs. The workplaces acquire an urban scale while maintaining a high degree of privacy and spatial singularity.
An auditorium is located in the basement, directly connected to the central space, while the roof incorporates a series of accessible open-air terraces.
A compact service spine, visually linked to the suspended volumes, organizes the vertical circulation and integrates people, building services, logistics, and vehicle access into a single infrastructural system.
