OAC Girona published in Oficinas and AIT Magazine

The OAC Girona has been published in several printed media

AIT Magazine (Germany)






Oficinas Magazine (Spain)













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OAC Girona - Leaf Awards

We are glad to announce that the OAC Girona has been shortlisted for the LEAF Awards.



Our congratulations to the other shortlisted!
For the complete list of the shorlisted visit the LEAF awards page:
http://www.leaf-awards.com/shortlist.html


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OAC Girona

The OAC Girona has been published in several media



Digital magazine "e-architect": http://www.e-architect.co.uk/barcelona/oac_girona_offices.htm

Paper Magazine "PROYECTO CONTRACT", linked to prestigous magazine CasaViva

Appearance in name at the frontpage.




and 8 full sized pages.

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OAC Girona

The OAC Girona has been published in several media

Digital magazine "What we do is secret": http://whatwedoissecret.org/madebyblog/2010/12/oficina-de-atencion-al-ciudadano-in-girona/
Digital magazine "Arqa":
http://www.arqa.com/index.php/esp/arquitectura-internacional/proyecto-oficina-de-atencion-al-ciudadano-girona.html

Paper Magazine "Eben", interior design architects association

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OAC Girona

The OAC Girona sits in the ground floor of an existing building. Being the central place of bureaucratic steps in Girona, it creates a clear, easy to use and srong image space. This is a plan set for better understanding of the project.

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The furniture flows in the space defining it through strong force-lines.

Several furniture typologies correspond to each of the functions: counters for reception-information, tables for bureucratic steps, closets to define spaces + support furniture for the waiting areas.

This elements combine in the typical section to create different uses:
Counters are facing street and always have a closet to give privacy. Tables work in a similar way: they face the waiting areas and also rely on counters to define the space.
Sitting areas are always in contact with windows and have the support of small designed furniture.
Cross section through entrance.

Typical entrance: to peak moments at your left (moments where office has a lot of movement: a new administration application or similar) or normal information at your right.

First attention level: fast steps.

Second attention level: more delicated steps.

Counters in space.

Tables in space.


Closets in space.


Waiting area desing furniture.


Online autoattention.



Standard furniture (tables + aero-benches).



Kids' space.

Example of table construction document.

Example of closet construction document.

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OAC Girona

PROJECT FOR THE CITIZEN ATTENTION OFFICE IN GIRONA:
Doing an attention model based on the suppression of barriers between worker and citizen.
Rethinking how to serve the citizen in all the fields: circulations, attention surfaces, computers, waiting areas...
Qualifying the working place and at the same time offering a citizen-friendly space.

OAC MODEL:
Facing the diversification of offices in the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan government), the model creates a strong unique image for all the offices.
This offices will have to seek for the citizen contact, calling it to participate in the interior and making its activity visible from the exterior always that it's possible.
It should also be a comfortable space, not impositive that the citizen can understand and appropriate of it easily.
Finally it should also avoid the classical separation in the offices between administration and citizen, proposing a common space where administration and citizen are part of a whole.

To solve all this requirements the offices are formalize in 3 conceptual axis:
-Unitary space: space will always be perceived in all his extension eliminating as maximum possible the barriers between citizen and administration (no glass or similar between them) and the jobs will be done in common surfaces (tables and counters)
-Understandable space: use categories (arrival, attention, internal work) related to different furniture (counters, special tables, standard tables) following strict shaping rules work in two different directions: distinguish uses and give a unitary image.
-Citizen seeking space: the offices take maximum profit of the street contact, putting the citizen in the windows. Besides, the elements will be placed with clarity to transmit the adequate image of the administration.

GIRONA PROJECT
We found a space where we couldn't touch walls, ceiling or floor, a uniform space cold in its formalization but with good spaces and great connection to the exterior.
Giving that and following the model we worked with 3 elements: counters in the entrance area, shaped tables for the working areas and the support of closets to create more comfortable spaces.
To give qualify the space we used vegetation and illumination. Vegetation is attached to closets (comes from up) in the working areas and to furniture in the waiting areas: with that we incorporated color and life in this cold space. Illumination helped us to create other light color spaces and "lowered" the ceiling in the attention areas to give a more intimate ambient.
Color code: The building has a very strict color code (white ceiling and floor, black or white walls) that we wanted to respect yet to bring it to the next step. The furniture goes from a strict white to grey, helping us to recognize the functions with it. Standard furniture (Aero bench and Castore light) where chosen for their abstract and clean lines. All materials are slightly shiny and very abstract to fit the building.
Construction system: all the furniture is lack MDF, constructed in workshop then mounted on site.

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The office sits in the corner of an existing building.

Office relates with high windows to the street.

Entrance is trhough a double space.

Counters make entrance-reception area and create circulations.

Counters, tables and closets create the spaces without touching the building.

Aero benches create waiting areas. Castore lights define each attention point.

Secondary attention is the corner space.

Closets qualify space in attention areas.

Waiting areas are allways related to vegetation and information points.

There is a kids space situated in the corner.

Attention in counters.

Attention in tables. Information is allways displayed for the citizen in a monitor facing its side.

Each worker has a defined space.

Waiting area in contact with the street. Vegetation is inside and outside.

Telematic attention points are situated in the office.

Closets are allways related to vegetation: one front for vegetation and the other for the doors.

The triple space of the stairs is colonized with a 5 bigger Castore lights in several levels.

The furniture extends to define spaces and create extra storing space.

Special furniture for institutional information.

The name of each worker is allways visible

Office for Citizen Attention.

All fotos from Santiago Garcés

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