Architect: Jaume Llobet Llobet
Location: Barcelona (Catalonia)
The Omega Building, last piece of the North Campus, has 9,850 m² and houses the departments of Informatic Languages and Systems, Applied Mathematics II and Systems Engineering, Automatics and Industrial Informatics; the Office for the Coordination of Campus north, the Office for Promotion and Guidance of the Studies of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the Student House.
The architect Jaume Llobet and his team designed a “unit of broken pieces.” A building with the southeast facade “in one piece, continuous and elongated” and with the west facade composed by three modules separated by several yards. These allow light to enter the lower floors and his rolled roofing filter and screen the sunlight.
The design also helps to define the Constellations square with a southwestern facade “open and live where one can perceive the movement of users”. The final phase provides for “opening at the Torre Girona area” to promote the continuity of the campus, as prefiguring the slope of the northeast facade.
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