Sustainable Development Obsevatory

The GBC in the Mediterranean rethink on those problems that society raises and to which we must inevitably respond to in order to secure the future. This new headquarters will be an engine of change in the city of Valencia. Regenerating the neighborhood and making an exemplary proposal from an environmental biophilic perspective.

The project respond to current problems at all scales. Solve the problems detected in the city, where it was necessary to complete the façade to the sea and bring the city closer to the port. On a closer scale, the program demanded by the GBC and the neighbors is solved.\nThe macro-scale tells us about a large container that provides the scale of the city, giving unity, homogeneity and identity to the project. It is permeable, inviting the passage of light, air and people flow. The vegetation coming from the new boulevard of the port is prolonged into the plot. A large space is created that allows to catch the air and the light of the Mediterranean essence.\nThe intervention applies passive strategies for climate control. This large box is itself a great filter, the umbrellas provide control of the sunlight, and provides some privacy without closing the city. Through it grows a vegetation that provides shade, moisture and aromas. Creating a unique indoor-outdoor space atmosphere.\nThis vegetation that grows on this large structure forms a landscape with a changing profile, as is the landscape of the port itself. In this case, due to the seasonality of the vegetation, greater wealth is contributed to the project, both visually and spatially.\nInside this large space, smaller-scale structures, made up of wooden pavilions, create a great wealth of interior and exterior routes. The pavilions are independent to allow them to be used by various users and thus generate grater activity. The pavilions combine spaces for research, dissemination, administration and meeting with society.\nThe concepts of exemplarity (hummingbird), the power of harmonic and natural growth and the Mediterranean character, have been present since the first stages of ideation.\nThe project reflects on innovative and exemplary proposal designed to reduce the environmental impact in each of the processes and phases of our activity and also to respond to social and economic aspects. All of them go through assuming the responsibility that we have with society and the environment, and that are part of the global common project that is born from the SDGs.