MEDIA-ICT Building

Description

The Media-ICT building is designed to be a communications hub and meeting point for businesses and institutions in the world of information and communication technologies (ICTs), as well as for the media and audio-visual sectors. Now, in the Information era, architecture has to be a technological platform, in which bits, connectivity, new materials, and nanotechnology are important. Connections are more relevant than materials. Its complex faηade, made of ETFE, represents digital construction, the construction of of information. This project won the award in research given by the XI Bienal Espaρola de Arquitectura y Urbanismo. An exceptional work, both complex and intuitive. An example of performative architecture, evolving, mutating, transforming, alive. The result is an eco-energy-efficient building. This book unveils the most intriguing and exceptional facts of this building.

344 pages / 17 x 24 cm / English