Puma Energy El Salvador Headquarters
La Libertad, El Salvador
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AWARDS
| Best Architects Award 21. Winner | German Design Award 2018. Winner | BUILD Design Award 2019. Winner | XI NAN Architecture and Building Award. Winner | International Architecture Award 2017. Winner | S.ARCH Awards 2017. Winner | Blueprint Awards 2017. Highly Commended | The Plan Award 2017. Finalist | GRAND PRIZE of the Bienial of Architecture of El Salvador, XII BAUES 2016. Winner | Luis M. Mansilla Award 2016 COAM. Winner | World Architecture Festival 2016. Finalist | WAN Commercial Awards 2016. Finalist | Architizer A+ Awards 2016. Finalist |
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ENG
The building is formed by two superimposed blocks arranged crosswise. The lower block houses the entrances and the customer-facing meeting rooms and is defined by buttressed walls supporting the roof slab and linear skylights parallel to the walls.
The upper block houses the main offices and is defined by two parallel longitudinal porticoes, cantilevered at opposite ends, and beams perpendicular to these. It emphasizes horizontality and links the user to the horizon through a screen of steel slats that also act as inverted curtain wall supports.
A vertical void connects both blocks at their intersection, allowing visual relationships between different levels. Linear skylights on the roof provide vertical sunlight in contrast to the horizontal spatiality of the office area located on the upper level.