Salinas Center

Adjacent to a large desalination plant, an administrative campus is proposed for workers and visitors, conceived as an architectural expression of salt production. The project draws inspiration from the traditional salt flats, historically designed to extract salt from seawater, and reinterprets their spatial logic through a contemporary and bioclimatic lens.

 

The complex is terraced along the natural slope, organizing buildings at different levels and incorporating narrow access paths that provide shade and reinforce the human scale. A key architectural feature is the use of active roof surfaces, which receive saline water directly from the desalination plant. These roofs serve a dual function: they act as bioclimatic regulators, mitigating solar exposure and heat gain, while also reproducing the crystallization process of salt, echoing the operational principles of traditional salt flats and establishing a symbolic and functional link between architecture and industry.

  • Year

    2022

  • Use

    Oficinas

  • Location

    Oriente Medio

  • Team

    Jaime Cantero; Adrián Aleson, Sebastián Duque, Alex Novegil