Lozenge factory blends into surrounding idyllic landscape

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GVG Studio faced a difficult task with this project: Build a factory in a picturesque, idyllic countryside

The lozenges produced by the factory orange, orange — The lozenges produced by the factory

The lozenges produced by the factory - The orange, orange

It’s clean and simple – important when building architecture, barn, building, farm, rural area, shed, black

Floor to ceiling glass windows illuminate the office airport terminal, architecture, building, daylighting, roof, steel, structure, gray, white

The building almost looks like a rock formation architecture, barn, farmhouse, home, house, snow, tree, winter, white

The designers of this studio needed to ensure freezing, frost, mountain, mountain range, phenomenon, sky, snow, tree, winter, teal

Restrained material choices throughout include concrete, wood and interior design, office, product design, white

The interior is clean and simple, as a engineering, factory, industry, laboratory, manufacturing, product, gray

The angle of this wall means privacy for architecture, building, commercial building, corporate headquarters, facade, headquarters, house, siding, sky, structure, white, black

It cleverly blends into the landscape - It architecture, building, freezing, home, house, residential area, roof, sky, snow, tree, winter, teal, blue

Only when standing inside do you get a architecture, ceiling, daylighting, floor, interior design, gray

Keeping the roof height low means it’s not cloud, highland, home, house, lake, landscape, loch, mountain, mountain range, reflection, rural area, sky, snow, tree, water, winter, white, black

Your eye almost passes over it from the autumn, evening, fell, geological phenomenon, highland, hill, home, house, landscape, leaf, morning, mountain, mountain range, mountain village, mountainous landforms, nature, plant, residential area, rural area, sky, suburb, town, tree, village, wilderness, winter, woody plant, black

Architect: GVG StudioPhotography by Rubén Pérez Bescós From the architect: A new throat lozenge factory belonging to a pharmaceutical company was set up in an idyllic landscape, the Baztán valley, at the north of Navarra in Spain. The project generated some concern in the inhabitants due to the impact that a large factory could have. With these conditions a smaller building than initially foreseen by the owner is designed, with better workflows (layout), counting on the singular elements of local buildings of the valley as the slopes of the roofs and also establishing a dialogue with the surrounding mountains. The result, despite its size, is integrated into its surroundings and the valley’s population has been pleasantly surprised. Designed for optimal performance, provides a good corporate image, usually avoided due the confusion of a worst performance or a higher cost than an uninspiring industrial building. This was the briefing: better functioning and integration in the environment with the same economic investment.

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12 Jun, 2017

Civic and Institutional Design

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