The Torre Zaragoza is a skyscraper located in the city of Zaragoza in Spain, which is 106 meters high. It is the tallest residential building in Aragon and the Ebro Valley, and is currently the fifty-seventh tallest skyscraper in Spain. It is not the tallest structure in Aragon since it does not reach the height of the Movistar Communications Tower, which is 117 meters.
History
In 2005, businessman Luis Nozaleda paid more than 82 million euros to the public company Zaragoza Alta Velocity for the plot, where an old railway barracks was located. After this failed and controversial operation that burst the real estate market in Zaragoza, said plot passed into the hands of Torrecerredo, a company of the Ibercaja group. At the end of 2016, the Plaza 14 real estate group bought the plot for a lower price than the aforementioned, although said price was not disclosed. The tower was announced in April 2017.[3].
The works began in June 2018[4] and its foundation was completed in July 2019.[5] 96,700 cubic meters of earth were extracted, equivalent to the capacity of 8,100 trucks. A three-meter-thick foundation slab was built under the five basements.[1] 30,000 cubic meters of concrete and 4,000 tons of steel were used to raise the skeleton. The facades were closed with 1.3 million bricks. The building has 1750 windows.[1].
On March 15, 2021, we had to mourn the death of two bricklayers in a work accident that occurred when an elevator fell from the seventh floor.[6].
The Plaza 14 group had set the delivery date of the apartments for the end of 2021,[7] but it was in April 2022 when the first residents moved in.[2] The tower involved an investment of 75 million euros.[2].
Once the homes were delivered, several of the slabs that cover the building fell and the neighbors considered suing the developer.[8].
Description
The architects Joaquín and José María Lahuerta and Ferrán Calzada, from the Ingennus office, signed the tower project.
It has two cores of fast elevators to minimize waits. It has six elevators with capacity for 13 people and two giant elevators with capacity for 24 people. The lobby is 200 square meters.[3].
It is a tower 106 meters high and 30 floors with 285 homes on two stairs. The building is white with gray touches.[9] The types of homes are two, three, four and five bedrooms, with surfaces ranging from 68 useful square meters to 168, all with a terrace, which can range from 8.8 m² to 168 m². The skyscraper also has a total of five garage floors, with 441 parking spaces and 285 storage rooms.
Controlled mechanical ventilation (MCV)
Introduction
The Torre Zaragoza is a skyscraper located in the city of Zaragoza in Spain, which is 106 meters high. It is the tallest residential building in Aragon and the Ebro Valley, and is currently the fifty-seventh tallest skyscraper in Spain. It is not the tallest structure in Aragon since it does not reach the height of the Movistar Communications Tower, which is 117 meters.
History
In 2005, businessman Luis Nozaleda paid more than 82 million euros to the public company Zaragoza Alta Velocity for the plot, where an old railway barracks was located. After this failed and controversial operation that burst the real estate market in Zaragoza, said plot passed into the hands of Torrecerredo, a company of the Ibercaja group. At the end of 2016, the Plaza 14 real estate group bought the plot for a lower price than the aforementioned, although said price was not disclosed. The tower was announced in April 2017.[3].
The works began in June 2018[4] and its foundation was completed in July 2019.[5] 96,700 cubic meters of earth were extracted, equivalent to the capacity of 8,100 trucks. A three-meter-thick foundation slab was built under the five basements.[1] 30,000 cubic meters of concrete and 4,000 tons of steel were used to raise the skeleton. The facades were closed with 1.3 million bricks. The building has 1750 windows.[1].
On March 15, 2021, we had to mourn the death of two bricklayers in a work accident that occurred when an elevator fell from the seventh floor.[6].
The Plaza 14 group had set the delivery date of the apartments for the end of 2021,[7] but it was in April 2022 when the first residents moved in.[2] The tower involved an investment of 75 million euros.[2].
Once the homes were delivered, several of the slabs that cover the building fell and the neighbors considered suing the developer.[8].
Description
The architects Joaquín and José María Lahuerta and Ferrán Calzada, from the Ingennus office, signed the tower project.
On the ground floor there is a swimming pool and on the 18th floor there is another swimming pool. It also has a gym, paddle tennis court and green areas.[7]
The design of the building is designed so that its energy consumption is very low.[3] All the homes in the skyscraper are heated with the aerothermal system, a modern technology that extracts energy from the air temperature. Each home has an individual state-of-the-art aerothermal system to produce underfloor heating in winter, cooling through cooling floors in summer and domestic hot water throughout the year.
The building is designed with a ventilated façade system, with a combination of light-colored ceramic plates in the main volumes, and dark in the second part. This system improves the thermal conditions of the building, also achieving better acoustic insulation of the homes. All facades have a high degree of insulation. Flat roofs insulated by a core of porexpan vault slabs with thermal bridge break, plus insulation in the false ceilings with rock wool on the inside and extruded polystyrene on the outside. In addition, it also has insulation in floors between homes. All of this attempts the intensive treatment of thermal bridges. The PVC windows have triple glazing, with double or single argon gas chamber, depending on orientation. The homes have controlled mechanical ventilation, VMC, with a high-performance heat recovery.[10].
In April 2021, many buyers complained that the energy efficiency was lower than advertised and did not meet Passivhaus certification.
The general director of Plaza 14, Fernando Montón, told the neighbors that “the building was going to follow the Passivhaus criteria. We never said that it would have Passivhaus certification.
The residential complex has two separate sanitation networks, one for rainwater and the other for wastewater.[10].
Situation
The address of the tower is Avenida de Navarra, 72-74, Zaragoza. It has in its vicinity:
It has two cores of fast elevators to minimize waits. It has six elevators with capacity for 13 people and two giant elevators with capacity for 24 people. The lobby is 200 square meters.[3].
It is a tower 106 meters high and 30 floors with 285 homes on two stairs. The building is white with gray touches.[9] The types of homes are two, three, four and five bedrooms, with surfaces ranging from 68 useful square meters to 168, all with a terrace, which can range from 8.8 m² to 168 m². The skyscraper also has a total of five garage floors, with 441 parking spaces and 285 storage rooms.
On the ground floor there is a swimming pool and on the 18th floor there is another swimming pool. It also has a gym, paddle tennis court and green areas.[7]
The design of the building is designed so that its energy consumption is very low.[3] All the homes in the skyscraper are heated with the aerothermal system, a modern technology that extracts energy from the air temperature. Each home has an individual state-of-the-art aerothermal system to produce underfloor heating in winter, cooling through cooling floors in summer and domestic hot water throughout the year.
The building is designed with a ventilated façade system, with a combination of light-colored ceramic plates in the main volumes, and dark in the second part. This system improves the thermal conditions of the building, also achieving better acoustic insulation of the homes. All facades have a high degree of insulation. Flat roofs insulated by a core of porexpan vault slabs with thermal bridge break, plus insulation in the false ceilings with rock wool on the inside and extruded polystyrene on the outside. In addition, it also has insulation in floors between homes. All of this attempts the intensive treatment of thermal bridges. The PVC windows have triple glazing, with double or single argon gas chamber, depending on orientation. The homes have controlled mechanical ventilation, VMC, with a high-performance heat recovery.[10].
In April 2021, many buyers complained that the energy efficiency was lower than advertised and did not meet Passivhaus certification.
The general director of Plaza 14, Fernando Montón, told the neighbors that “the building was going to follow the Passivhaus criteria. We never said that it would have Passivhaus certification.
The residential complex has two separate sanitation networks, one for rainwater and the other for wastewater.[10].
Situation
The address of the tower is Avenida de Navarra, 72-74, Zaragoza. It has in its vicinity: