Waste Treatment Plant in Madrid
Spain CCC ES
Ábalos y Herreros
Ángel Jaramillo
2000
Type
Urban Infrastructures
Tags
urban infrastructures , Spain ccc
Visitability
Allowed
Description
Back in the day, it was the largest Recycling Plant in Europe. The project won the contract by proposing a unitary complex space in which all the activities are housed under a large green roof that adapts to the slope of the natural surroundings, and a gravitational conception of the waste sorting methods that was extended to all the spaces. The building features façades made of recycled polycarbonate, the first of its kind in Europe. An elevated walkway connects the different areas and was designed to be the route not only for plant workers and office workers, but also for visitors. This concept was taken up by many educational institutions and remains today an international environmental benchmark.Cedric Price visited the building before his death. He was accompanied by Hans Ulrich Obrist, who interviewed him. The interview was published in issue 22 of 2G magazine and in it, Cedric said: “they planned the recycling plant as if it were the first cathedral ever created, which means they had to come up with new ideas for every single thing they did”.(Description provided by the architects)