Salvador Segura comments on the CaixaForum of Valencia

Salvador Segura, professor of the Bachelor of Design at EINA, has taken charge of the Execution Management of the work on the CaixaForum of Valencia, the most singular installation of the entire network of cultural centres of the "la Caixa" Foundation, with nearly 10,000 square metres dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge.

The work designed by architect Enric Ruiz-Geli, leader of the Cloud 9 studio in Barcelona and professor at Virginia Tech University, together with Javier Peña, of the Xpiral studio in Murcia and professor at the University of Alicante and the IAAC in Barcelona, is conceived as an "artistic creation" in itself.

In the execution of the works and the technical challenges encountered, Salvador Segura points out that all the curved volumes of the project have been built with large self-supporting and fibreglass modules that were subsequently screwed together and projected with concrete to give them structural capacity.

On the other hand, the Cumella ceramic tile surfaces, the vertical garden, and the pyramid roof are the result of parameterising data in a Rhino/Grasshoper program that allows moulding and working with robotics.

Each space has its own personality, as is the case of the Nube room. As it is intended for family and educational activities, the use of very light materials was chosen to enhance the feeling of weightlessness offered by the whole. "The lower blue area of the cloud is a 3D print of a semi-transparent resin fabric made with a code specially designed for this work," says Salvador Segura.