Caja Granada

In order to resolve the slope of the site and the ground floor level, a great base was created between the two highways that border the site upon which the cubic piece sits. In this podium, parking and future additions are resolved. The emerging, stereotomic, cubic box, is built of a reinforced concrete grid of 3 x 3 x 3 metres, which serves as a mechanism to collect light, the central theme of the architecture. The two southern façades function as a 'brise-soleil',finely shading the potent light, and providing illumination to the areas of open offices. The two northern façades, giving onto the individual offices, receive the homogeneous and continuous light characteristic of this orientation. They are enclosed by stone and glass in horizontal bands. The central interior courtyard, a true 'impluvium of light', gathers the solid southern light from the skylights and, reflected by the alabaster parameters, augments the illumination of the open offices.