IDOM (About no date) is an international Spanish firm that commits to providing “Consulting, Engineering and Architectural professional services” with “5,125 professionals,” “66 years of experience,” “968 partners,” & “125 countries.” Recently, both Ignacio Rey Gómez & Luis Rodriguez Llopis, both CEO and president with their engineering background, placed great emphasis on architectural projects with integrated collaboration (ibid.). Multidisciplinary demonstrates IDOM’s interdisciplinary with twelve sectors, especially one specific sector, “architecture,” and the web of subsectors. More details will introduce the influences of this architectural studio and its world architectural masterpieces.
Architectural Approach
To understand its architectural trends, IDOM must emphasise the architecture behind everything in this architecture sector. At first, IDOM focused on building physics as necessary for the social and physical sciences for professionals to collaborate. Having 13 subsectors will shape IDOM’s unique approach to each architecture for long-term achievement for self-sustaining buildings: “Sustainable design, Zero consumption, MEP [(mechanical, engineering & plumbing)] building services, Acoustics, Lighting, Fire, Water, Wind, Structure, Building envelopes, People flow, Information and Security technology, and Green design” (ibid.).
Second, IDOM’s Design and project management can unlock the creative process at a human scale. The design contains twelve subsectors meeting human needs for “human praxis”: “Airport Infrastructure,” “Corporate,” “Education,” “Health,” “Landscaping & City,” & “Leisure & Culture,” “Mixed Use,” “Residential,” “Special Structures,” “Sports & Events,” & “Transport”. Project management also consists of four subsectors to tackle complex projects: “Program Management,” “Project Management,” “Project Monitoring,” & “Structuring a project”. The complex three sectors of architecture help shape architecture to match the needs of human scale to find ways to resolve complex problems with continuing solutions with samples of projects and processes with some of the latest projects.
IDOM headquarters in Bilbao
IDOM proposed a brilliant idea of placing the refurbished headquarters “in a bonded Warehouse on what was once the Deusto Canal of the port of Bilbao,” located in North Central Spain. This studio utilised adaptive reuse in “the port warehouse,” such as shafts converting to the main staircase and elevator and meeting room in place of “noisy machinery of the freight lifts” (ibid.). Some fascinating facts about this headquarters are to preserve the building by reducing the construction process and using the warehouse’s thermal mass to reduce air conditioning (ibid.). The IDOM utilised components like a glazed façade, air conditioning on cold beams and other devices to maximise natural lighting and minimise air conditioning in the building (ibid.). The IDOM demonstrates their sustainable approach to architecture to align with its goals on design and the building physics for adaptive reuse to comply with a symbolic new movement of architectural elements (Ibid., Image 2).
New San Mames Stadium
IDOM built New San Mame Stadium at the estuary “at the end of the urban mesh of the expansion district of Bilbao” as a landmark. The circular building foodprint of the stadium featured a unique architectural façade of ETFE(Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene translucent plastic for cheaper materials) panels & LED technology to make a “combination of shapes and colours” (ibid., Image 3-4). The lighting technology and architectural structures, along with building physics and remarkable landmarks for the new stadium, met the capacity of 53,332 spectators under UEFA for hosting the 2020 Euro as the only Spanish Stadium with multiple uses outside the event like “a museum, a shopping area, restaurants, cafeterias, event rooms and meeting and conference rooms” (ibid.). There are multiple implementations in what architecture, events, and other usages are for studio to tackle many problems with solutions for this complex project.
India International Convention & Expo Center
IDOM has commissioned the architecture called India International Convention & Expo Center to emphasise the importance of mixed-use for exceptional skills on international stages. IDOM team developed this architecture in “less than three months” within the coming “two stages” with a list of necessary structures grouping “between New Delhi and Gurgaon” in “90 hectares” including “2.5 million built-up square meters” of “fairgrounds (403,000 m2), a convention centre (73,200 m2), offices (236,000 m2), hotels (339,000 m2), retail areas (156,000 m2), a multipurpose pavilion with capacity for 20,000 people (64,200 m2) and over a million square meters for parking” (ibid., & e-architect, 2021, Image 5-6). IDOM has shown respect for complex Indian culture by implementing their architectural and engineering plans of mixed-use projects to suggest IDOM demonstrated the international recognition of how Indian culture with awards on mixed-use as a successful architectural example (ibid.).
Conclusion about IDOM
The three projects demonstrate what IDOM can do out of hundreds of projects that are changing the world. IDOM embraces its international diversity so that it will be able to multiple sectors that can integrate with the current and future architecture of what IDOM can do. There is more to do with IDOM that will be the best to collaborate that will mark the worldwide phenomenon worldwide, shortly with implementation to demonstrate its goals aligned with its actions with diversity and multidisciplinary at best.
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