The Harino Panadera factory, located in Las Arenas (Guecho) (Province of Vizcaya, Spain) is a rationalist building with expressionist influences made of reinforced concrete and designed in 1933. Description
The building has a rectangular floor plan and has a large presence at the intersection of Máximo Aguirre and Arellano streets. It is a building that shows a changing aspect, with differentiated parts and with a clear fluidity and volumetric fragmentation that respond to the needs of the functional program, maintaining a compositional and aesthetic unity. It has a flat roof and has a semi-basement, ground floor and first part of the construction and only semi-basement and ground floor in the back of the property. The exterior finishing materials are homogeneous, the presence of red brick being dominant. The balustrades of the balconies are resolved in brick face crowned with circular metal tube railing. There are specific constructive elements such as coping, flashing and fences of openings of stony appearance in cream color. The original property was modified in 1986.
The façade of Máximo Aguirre Street has a very prominent visual presence. It consists of a brick cloth as the basis of the composition and shows a clear directionality towards the encounter with Arellano street. The reading starts from the left, marking a lower initial height with precise straight cuts as a starting point, to then increase in height and emerge from the aforementioned cloth on its first floor a succession of curved bodies flown of different dimensions, but with a Directionality towards the corner of the building and end up literally turning the cloth of the wall in a curved shape on the first floor and cover in flight the cut in chamfer that occurs at that same point on the ground floor. In this façade, there are currently two main entrances delimited by a limestone frame or flat cover. One of the entrances is located at half facade with the inscription superior in great letters that says Building Santa Ana, while the other one is located in the corner of the property solved in chamfer and at the moment it does not have inscriptions. On the ground floor on its left side there are two horizontal windows with a lintel and continuous flashing that unifies them. On the first floor, from the left, first there is a brick body in flight with large windows that happens to have a curved shape opening and continuing on a curved balcony that accentuates the direction towards the angle for later after a straight cloth with a vain highlight a semi-cylinder in flight with a curved continuous vain and finish initiating the curvature of union towards Arellano street. In this last curved cloth a continuous curved window with mullions is introduced.
The façade on Arellano Street, is the continuation of the one described above with which it shares the design of the corner of the building. The curvature of the red brick cloth gives way to a smooth straight cloth that stands out with a slight decrease in height of the building. Subsequently, a new body in flight formed by the balcony-solid element of the façade similar to the previously described one, affects the direction towards the joining curvature of the two facades. The façade continues with a decrease in height but maintaining two floors for later to something less than two thirds of its length go to a smooth enclosure of a single height. The windows in the first section of the facade are of one type, while in the section of one height there are four series of horizontal continuous windows.
The façade on Ibaibide Street is a symmetrical cloth with a brick facade that is resolved as a gable with a three-step staircase. The wall is predominantly blind and three windows of horizontal development are centered on it. Finally, the building has a façade that does not look at any street but at the residential building that completes this block of the urban fabric. This facade is of a single height, it is a succession of horizontal openings and in it the access of vehicles to the basement takes place by means of a ramp.
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