CaixaForum Valencia. A Landscape of Cells

CaixaForum Valencia, A Landscape of Cells, is a re-use of an existing building. It develops inside the existing building Ágora in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, an unused empty space, to which the project provides content, program and life. The total surface is 9.918 sq m. CaixaForum Valencia is a center for cultural, artistic, scientific and environmental dissemination activities and whose design and implementation was comissioned by the client "LaCaixa" Foundation through its social work. The purpose of this center is to bring culture closer to all audiences through multiple activities and experiences that it offers daily. Innovation and sustainability are the distinctive features of the project. Starting from an existing construction, that was not energy efficient, the built project has obtained the maximum LEED PLATINUM sustainability certification. Specific constructive innovations have been developed in the project: cardboard skin in the Auditorium; wooden installation in the ceiling of Auditorium “The Written Forest”; Garden system in Restaurant; Structural system of CLT wood and steel in the Library, which work in a hybrid way providing the necessary fire resistance; skin of Administration made of fiberglass with Molecular Ceramic; fiberglass Cloud skin and STO with glass composition finish, ETFE window and skylight; Cloud 3D printing. The output is a collective intelligence project in which professionals from very different disciplines have collaborated.