Parasols at the new Salvador Escoda Logistics Centre in Seville
The company Salvador Escoda is a stockist and distributor of products related to air conditioning and installations, of a family nature, with more than 50 years in the sector. Currently, it has more than 90 points of sale and with it, 4 logistics warehouses, from which it serves a network of more than 40,000 customers.
This business project generates more than 750 direct jobs, with high specialization, occupies an area of more than 150,000m2, and has an extensive network of points of sale, throughout the national territory, which position it as a leading distributor.
On March 14th , the inauguration of its new logistics warehouse for the South, the Canary Islands and Extremadura took place, in the Megapark of Dos Hermanas (Seville), the largest business park in Andalusia. In its new facilities, it has 16,000m2 of warehouse, along with 1,200m2 of offices and another 800m2 of its stores for customer service “EscodaStore”.
Location: Dos Hermanas (Andañucía)
Installers: Myrsa, Roofs and Architectural Façades
Project Management: Novasa consultores
Typology: Industrial architecture
Photography: Jesús Granada
Sun protection needs
The Salvador Escoda logistics centre is a rectangular building, with a ground floor and two elevations, which orients the façade of the offices to the south, to make the most of natural light.
Given that Dos Hermanas is a town with very hot springs and summers, the incorporation of parasols with vertical slats is a solution both to control the passage of natural light, and to protect from the sun at the hours of greatest exposure.
The project has designed the incorporation of the slatted sunshades in projecting balconies, which add the shade factor of the cantilever to that of the slats themselves, maximizing the shadow cast on the glazed areas, and add depth to the aesthetics of the façade.
Our contribution to the project
Salvador Escoda’s new logistics centre in Seville has large-format aluminium slatted sunshades, model
UPO-350
, in its aluminium variant. It is a tapered slat with overlap between slats, with a slat width of 35cms, which admits maximum lengths of up to 450cms in one piece, and due to its resistance and economy, it has become a very popular product in Andalusia.
Our contribution to the project has been advice on the design of the lattices, manufacture and supply, leaving in the hands of
Myrsa
the tasks of coordination with
Novasa
(Project Management), integration of the element in the façade and the effective installation of the slats. From here, we want to congratulate you for the work done and the spectacular result.
It is also worth highlighting the design work of this element, both for the incorporation of the corporate colors of the end customer, and for the integration of a system with low-consumption lights, which has been carried out from the site, and which provide added value in terms of visual impact. converting these sunshades from functional solar control systems to illuminated signs at night.
It is a project that incorporated various technical challenges, both in design and during execution, but of which we are very satisfied, and which is a new example of a project with UPO-350 parasols in Andalusia.
