Excerpt: SENAC Salvador by Obra Arquitetos and NNarq incorporates historic urban elements for contemporary construction. The blade building, with its staggered slabs, provides shaded garden areas. The facade panels, covered in CRF, offer thermal insulation, ensuring good thermal, acoustic, and lighting performance for internal spaces. These panels also create unity for the building’s facades and volumes.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The proposed project appropriates elements from the historic urbanity of Salvador for construction in a contemporary area of the city. The blade building, due to its north-south orientation, provides shading for the garden areas on the staggered slabs, mainly in the intense sun in the afternoon.
Facade panels with thermal insulation covered in CRF (fibre-reinforced concrete), arranged at various angles according to the orientation of the façade and program, technologically guarantee good thermal, acoustic and lighting performance for the internal spaces. They also create a unity for the facades and volumes of the building.
It was decided to build a rather simple and organized conventional structure with pillars and spans of 12 and 7.20 meters in beams and prestressed reinforced concrete slabs.
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