Location Barcelona (Spain)
Client Simon
Area 10.160 m²
Year 2023
Status Completed-Built
Typology Workplaces
Energy Certificates LEED Platinum, WELL Platinum
Awards
Architecture Masterprize 2025, Best of the Best “Restoration & Renovation”
Architizer A+ Awards 2025, “Architecture + Adaptive Reuse” Special Mention
Saint Gobain Award 2025, Best practice of sustainable construction in Spain by an architecture studio
Catalonia Construction Awards 2024, “Functional Rehabilitation”
Spanish Offices Association (AEO) Awards 2024, “Best Implementation”
Interior Design Katty Schiebeck Studio / Estudi Antoni Arola – Estudi Jordi Tamayo (showroom and patio)
Photography José Hevia
Team Fermín Vázquez, Peco Mulet, Eduardo Varas, Pablo Garrido, Maialen Andiarena, Cristina Sánchez
The rehabilitation of the former Simon electrical material factory to house its corporate headquarters is a unique case that exemplifies the transformation of the neighborhood, where a local historical company, which had abandoned its industrial building, gives it new life by transforming it and locating its offices and research and innovation spaces there.
The new façade is committed to maintaining and emphasizing its original structure. The openings are transformed by incorporating a new “cassette” type element capable of reconfiguring this interstitial space in a simple, elegant and repetitive manner that at the same time meets the technical requirements demanded of it.
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