BUILT
Brasília-DF, 2011
The POSEAD building is an office building with approximately 3.300sqm, located in the outskirts of Brasília. This is a building that houses the administrative headquarters of a school for web-based online courses and professional training. It has open-floor office spaces and a ground floor space for courses and exhibitions. The building also needed to be built unexpensively, so the materials that were used were traditional reinforced concrete structure and ceramic bricks finished with white painted plaster. The building stands close to the noisy highway that connects Brasília to its biggest “sattellite city”, called Taguatinga. Its spaces are basically arranged within two volumes: an office “wing” and a tower. This composition was also designed to leave part of the land empty to create the possibility of building another “wing” of office space in the future.
The building´s north facade faces the highway, so the main challenge imposed by this condition was to find a low cost solution to protect the main facade from the excessive heat of the northern sun and from the noise of the highway. Therefore the windows on this facade were designed to never be hit by direct sunlight. All the natural light that enters this facade is indirect, reflected by the walls of the volumes between the windows. These volumes and the distance from the windows to the main external limits of the facade create a protection of shadows on the windows, thus helping to protect the internal spaces from excessive sun.
The south facade is more transparent, as the sun never hits it directly. A open plaza connects both the office wing and the tower. The west façade houses the pressurized fire stairs, toilets, locker rooms, storage and cupboard.
Authors: Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho and Matheus Seco
Coauthor: Rodrigo Scheel
Colaboration: Daniella Rauber, Guilherme Mahana
Built Surface: 3315sqm
Project: 2009
Construction: 2009-2011
Contractor: Construtora Canova
Structure: ADC Projetos
Installations: Martins Projetos
Ar conditioning and pressurization of stairs: STAC Engenharia
Photos: Haruo Mikami