INNOMAT: Technology Park for Material Innovation

Technology Park looks forward to be an implementation system as a new space of centrality that creates workplaces thus mixing work and social life in nature. It is a space focused in material innovation and win-win synergies of big and experienced corporations with young entrepreneurs, where they can work together and it can be exported as a role model.

Technology Park consists of four productive areas: - Production warehouses intended for big leading companies. - A building composed by a neuralgic rib destined to test areas and laboratories, with services and facilities. The number of laboratory modules increases according to necessities and demand of private companies, that can design their own modules. Technology Park has an assembly area where the required modules can be build and then installed in the building by a lifting platform. - Three store buildings with inner courtyard destined to co-working spaces and start-ups focused on research and implementation of young innovators and small businesses that initiate in the process. These buildings are suited with workshops for material prototypes, printing areas, common rooms and offices. The buildings are located in the edge of the Technology Park and they are connected to nature by their inner courtyard. - A large green park that crosses the Technology Park and generates workspaces in the middle of nature. \nThis whole system is managed through the Management Building which consists of diaphanous workspaces, auditorium, library and exhibition spaces that can be used by all users of the Technology Park. The building consists of four large concrete structural cores that contain the vertical connections and the sanitary areas. The four cores support eight large wooden trusses, from which the wooden slabs hang by means of a brace. The slabs are made of hydroponic planters with deciduous climbing plants that benefit sun protection in summer and radiation through the branches in winter, thus generating an element that mimics nature and the seasons. The building has two types of skin: glass and concrete lattice. The gallery has an intelligent system that closes itself in winter to enhance the greenhouse effect and it opens itself in summer to introduce fresh air into the building. The rest of the building is enclosed by concrete lattice covered with vegetation to naturally balance temperature. The building mainly consists of two materials: CO2 capturing concrete and wood.