Vegas Altas Congress Center

The "Vegas Altas" Congress and Exhibition Center grows in an ambiguous peripheral location, in a land that is both urban and agricultural boundary. Occupying the first or last crop field. The architectural proposal is intended to highlight this timeless condition of building belonging to the Vega as a free-standing building, floating in the countryside like a giant bale of straw with a flat horizon.
On one hand, it is a building that hides its status growing underground. The program is drawn on a half-buried ring that adapts to the terrain and to the boundaries of the plot, but hides his condi

Education: School of Architecture, Technical University of Madrid ETSAM-UPM. PhD, Master of Advanced Studies on Research, B Arch + M Arch.
Luis Pancorbo has been for 8 years Associate Professor in the ETSAM-UPM.
His research interests focus on the technical dimension of architecture and its influence on the methodology of architectural design, American industrial architecture, and industrial ruins and derelict productive landscapes. He has widely published in peer review journals and achieved a Ph.D with a dissertation entitled “Albert Kahn Inc. Architecture as a Technical Object”.

Inés Martin Robles and Luis Pancorbo focus their professional practice on the submission of international architectural competitions. They have won 17 awards in different competitions. First Prizes: Hotel for regional tourism network in Castuera, Badajoz; “Vegas Altas” Congress Center in Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz; Competition “Hacemos ciudad” SEPES, Guadalajara, Spain; Competition for the construction of temporary homes on public facilities plots in Parla, Madrid; 49 social dwellings in Vallecas, Madrid. Second Prizes: Competition for the General Archive of Extremadura in Mérida; Competition for social dwellings Vicálvaro-La Catalana 3, Madrid; Competition for the facilities, urban design and new market design in Barceló - Santa Barbara square and its surroundings, Madrid; Competition for the construction of 982 social dwellings, in "Los Ahijones" (Madrid)”. Andalusian Competition for Young Architects J5, Dwelling in Cazorla; Competition for 204 social dwellings in Los Olivos; Competition “Edificio das Artes”. University of Vigo, Pontevedra Campus.
They achieved more than 20 awards for their built work, including four COAM awards, the AZ Awards in Canada, AR awards of AIA, AIA|DC’s Unbuilt Awards, Architizer A+Awards, ACSA Faculty Design Award, S.ARCH Awards, Chicago Athenaeum Award, and the MasterPrize Architecture Award. Their work has been published in more than 60 international magazines as L’architecture d’aujourdhui and Le Moniteur (France), Architect (USA), Azure Magazine (Canada), IW magazine (Taiwan), Mark and Frame (Netherlands), Plot (Argentina), AIT Architektur (Germany), Arquitectura Viva (Spain), AV Monographs (Spain), The Plan (Italy), C3 (Korea), among others.