Enric Ruiz-Geli | Projects: Built projects

The Millennium Project
Ayuntamiento de Valladolid. Valladolid, 2011

Architecture by

Built by

Sacyr Vallehermoso

Promoted by

Ayuntamiento de Valladolid

Certified by

Green Building Council Award

The Millennium Project, before and after the intervention. (above 2009 and below 2011).
Photos: Luis la Forga and Tafyr respectively

Energy Diagram
Mobility · Energy · Technology · Nature

Ayuntamiento de Valladolid:

Underground Parking Gate on the periphery of the City Center for visitors to leave their car and access the city by foot.
Creation of new city bycicle routes
Public Bycicle Station located inside the car park

Bycicle Parking Facilities
Refurbishement of the river banks with new footpaths to create a zone for pedestrians, joggers and cyclists.
New pedestrian routes to connect the old city to residential neighbourhoods.
Modification of car traffic, lowering its impact on the urban environment

Wooden docks along the banks of the river as a potential desambarcation for leisure watersports
Bridge Retrofitting: Timber deck for pedestrian use and widening of the footpath for better walking comfort

Wooden docks along the banks of the river as a potential desambarcation for leisure watersports
Bridge Retrofitting: Timber deck for pedestrian use and widening of the footpath for better walking comfort

Wooden docks along the banks of the river as a potential desambarcation for leisure watersports
Bridge Retrofitting: Timber deck for pedestrian use and widening of the footpath for better walking comfort

Photovoltaic modules
BP SOLAR mod. BP 3165S
Policristalin (SiN) 165 Wp
140 Units of 1,30m2
Peak potential of instalation:
23,02 kWp

Aeolic Wind Generator - 9 units
Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
4.2m x 2.75m, height: 11m
Rated Power: 4kW
Rated Wind Speed: 12m/s
Urban Green Energy

ETFE
3 layer Etfe Skin with climatic Control: Layer 1: “dust” pattern - 50 % opacity

Layer 2: mate foil

Layer 3: “camouflage” pattern - 70%
Solar Heat Gain coefficient: 40%
U Value: 1,71 W/m2k
- Iaso -

Laso:

Pressure Sensors for Etfe Cushion System

Cometal:

Recycled Metalic Structure

Intemper:

Green Vegetal Wall planted with autochtone species and integrated monitored watering system CO2 Redution

#10

Philips:

LED Lighting System integrated in the cushion system with programable colour control

#11

Heat Exchanger in Air Cooling
System reducing energy
consumption

#12

Natural Cross Ventilation System

#13

Escofet:

Bench - Public Furniture made from recycled concrete and micro glass spheres

#14

Philips:

LED Screen displaying Climatic Information

#15

Philips:

RGB Led Ilumination
Outdoor Public Space

#15

Philips:

RGB Led Ilumination

#16

Solatube:
bringing natural day light
to underground parking

#17

Trees as events - collection of 4 trees selected by the architect

#18

Vegetation on the Public Space 80 % Green Influencing bioviversity

#19

Water Screen as insulation for the parking shafts and
cooling device for the public
space

#20

Water Management System and Water Collection

#21

Water Geyser
Oxygenation of the River Water, facilitating underwater biodiversity

Mobility: 1-3
Energy : 4-5
Materials and Technologies: 6-16
Nature: 17-21

The Millenium Project Presentation Act
At the City Hall reception room

The Millennium Project Model

The Millennium Project presentation

The Facts
Idea and Project Development

Intro

Architecture is the primary cause of climate change.
We issued 40% of CO2 emissions.
This is our mission as architects.
We have a job: to be leaders and responsible.

Background and approach

Valladolid bought the dome of the Expo Zaragoza 2008, with a decision to revive, recycle unprecedented architecture, to do better in its urban fabric. Valladolid with the Millennium Project makes "urban acupuncture" that promotes Jaime Lerner, director of Urban Affairs Advisor to the UN. That means injecting synthetically added value in a deteriorating urban fabric.

The project integrates the square along the river. The water will be closely linked to it appearing as an alive and productive. The performance contains elements such as fountains, springs, geysers and water curtains.

Environmental considerations and sustainability are the foundation of our approach to projecting, and are the premise for the implementation of any design criteria.

The Millennium Project Masterplan: DAD Architecture

Parametric design of the structure and ETFE skin

Light steel structure
Photo: Realce Comunicación

Zoom to the dome ETFE skin
Photo: Realce Comunicación

The dome - Work in progress at construction site
Photo: Realce Comunicación

Regeneration of Isabel the Catholic Bridge

We visited the place, a landscape of the city of the 80's, cars, pollution, lack of respect for the environment, a city back to the river, an old concrete engineering infrastructure, no energy plan, mobility, not public space, meeting. . .

We lightened the bridge deck extending the scope enabling pedestrian and bike path integration. Pedestrians and vehicles travel at different levels. The exterior of the bridge is covered with photovoltaic panels. 8 generators have been installed along the bridge. Their energy can illuminate the surgical site, making Valladolid a pioneer town.

Urban wind turbines by Urban Green Energy along the bridge Isabel la católica with a bycicle and a pedestrian sidewalk integration
Photo: Juan Carlos Delgado

Photovoltaic cells along the exterior side of the bridge
Photo: Juan Carlos Delgado

Electric vehicle plug-in parking station
Photo: ayuntamiento de Valladolid

The Millenium Project, Cityscape

The Millennium Project is a square, and a pavilion, and an urban space, and riparian woodland, and mobility equipment, and pacification of public space, and noise reduction, and improvement of the pollution, and lower power consumption, and reduced footprint, and light metal, and recycled materials and certified wood, and low-light LEDs and micro wind production, and a new ETFE membrane, and more natural and less artificial light, and space to create culture, action, sports, events, and more contact with the river, and trees, and oxygenate the river, and biodiversity, and better environment for residents, and new centrality. . .

So it is not a square but a flagship, right?

The Millennium Project Dome
Photo: Juan Carlos Delgado

A natural light environment inside the Millennium Dome.
Photo: Enric Ruiz-Geli

Fashion show inside the dome
Photo: Luis la Forga

Low light consumption LEDs
Photo: Realce Comunicación

At a venue, inside the dome
Photo:Luis la Forga

Ecology and Sustainability

We committed from the beginning in a sustainable strategy plan by using the runoff rainwater in non-potable uses. We use concrete made with gravel excavation. We use technological wood, avoid 50% of installed power and generate some of the energy we consume.

Incorporate the project management and habitat restoration to improve its quality. Respect to vegetation has been extreme, using native species chosen for their low water demand. The risks are made with natural water from the river, which serves as a great reservoir.

The vegetation invades the urban space increasing biodiversity. The oasis of calm that is generated will encourage the public experience of the square.

Produce environmental quality and function as a sink for CO2, we make the management of biomass from mowing and pruning for later use as fertilizer.

We designed a Selective Demolition Plan for the recovery of the construction elements at the end of life that includes innovative strategies, such as the cutting of the walls and concrete slabs for the production of reusable blocks.

The performance is sensitive to accessibility issues. Each and every one of the areas of intervention are accessible for disabled drivers, and there Braille signs on the bridge and underground parking. Innovation leadership.

Valladolid today marks the roadmap micro wind energy in Spain, with 8 mills Urban Green Energy, world leaders in the sector. Behind him there are others being planned city San Sebastian, Zaragoza, Barcelona,. . .

The Millennium Project performing by night
Photo: Ruben Garcia

Millenium Project Site Diversity

The Millennium Project Intervention
Photo: Realce Comunicación

Wooden balconies as meeting points in front of the river at the Ribera wood
Photo: Juan Carlos Delgado

Geyser performance in the river
Photo: Juan Carlos Delgado

Wooden balconies and Ribera wood surrounding context
Photo: Juan Carlos Delgado

Wood passerelles drive the public to ludic spaces among the trees of the Ribera wood
Photo: Juan Carlos Delgado

Ludic spaces in the Millenium Square
Photo: Juan Carlos Delgado

Public space as a meeting point to all generations of the local comunity
Photo: Juan Carlos Delgado

Urban furniture usage by the local community
Photo: Cloud 9

Urban Furniture in the dome entrance made by EXP Architects
Photo: Enric Ruiz-Geli

Interactive water fountain as a playground, with the dome in the backdrop
Photo: Realce Comunicacion

Vegetation integration on the dome
Photo: Realce Comunicación

Vegetation walls in the dome
Photo: Luis la Forga

Green public space surroundng the dome in the Plaza
Photo: Juan Carlos Delgado

Another Cloud in the sky
Photo: Edouard Cabay

Enric Ruiz-Geli at Cloud 9 office with a signed portrait of Buckminster Fuller in the background.
The Portrait refers to the Non-Symmetrical Tension – Integrity Structures. United States Patent Office Nº 3.866.366, filed August 7, 1973, Serial nº 386.302, granted February 18, 1975. Inventor: Buckminster Fuller
Photo: Albert Bertran