Other photos By making each compositional element walls and outdoor pavement, skin, structure out of a different material, he has created a work of great figurative honesty. The Junta building occupies a large lot facing Zamora cathedral with a tall monumental wall of local white sandstone: the material the Romanesque cathedral is made of.
The choice of material also establishes a metaphorical link with the religious building, according to the concept of the hortus conclusus: a precious protected garden inside which the community lives and works. Use of the same stone to pave the courtyard within the walls, matched by the colour of the cement inside the offices, lends unity to the design, clearly defined in its horizontal and vertical surfaces.
Massive slabs measuring 2. The interior vertical surfaces are dematerialised by the glass they are made of, appearing to be practically absent.
The image of the invisible volume is completely drawn in glass, including the upper corners near the cement roof, which withdraws to leave space for a transparent cornice. Campo Baeza says he was inspired by an office building project by Mies van der Rohe on Friedrichsstrasse in Berlin, where the German master created a tower made entirely out of glass, in which the material reflects the city around it, changing continually with the light and losing its physical boundaries.
The Spanish architect uses glass to form an intangible barrier, a series of vertical screens which project images of the outdoors created by the motion of light.
