New Main Headquarters | Insurance Company PGGM | Zeist | Holland | Mateo Arquitectura

In the surroundings of the city of Zeist, near Utrecht, the competition was about the need to increase in 25.000 sqm of office space the existing building. At the same time, the project had to solve the parking garage for 1000 cars so that to retrieve a green park.
The project makes the connection between the context and the neighbouring cloister type building, so that to keep the compacity of the volume that helps on the growing logics of the building.......more

Convention Centre Design | International Convention Centre Barcelona | Mateo Arquitectura

The Barcelona International Convention Centre consists of a large hall (15.000 m2, 80m of structural lighting) that can be divided and a block for associated services that looks out to sea. The hall is both structure and abstraction; the exterior block talks to the sea and the sky.
The structure is a musical score of reference.

The climate, the light (and opposite, shade) and sound (and its opposite, silence) have shaped the plot.
The flows (of people and of fluids that are all similar), the masses and the architecture that appears (and frequently) disappears amid them..........more