IESE Business School, Madrid
Architect: Sancho-Madridejos
Year: 2021
Location: Madrid, Spain
Category: Education / University
Status: Built
About
A Madrid business school has expanded its facilities with the construction of new teaching spaces that together have the effect of consolidating the entire campus around a pine grove. A stone vault built with 777 pieces parameterized and fitted together covers an atrium opening out to the pine trees, an entrance and meeting point linking the low volume of the auditorium to the glass-encased classroom block. With its excavated stands, the school’s main lecture hall is crowned with a wooden vault whose complex geometry, besides providing an acoustic screen, performs the real structural work of the roof... [+]