Building demolition
LOCATION: Road to Castellón, 52 in Zaragoza
YEAR: 2019
The buildings to be demolished occupy part of the site facing the road to Castellón, 52 in Zaragoza. This is a group of isolated buildings inside the plot that formed a cereal warehouse of the former National Agricultural Products Service (SENPA), currently unused. Its construction dates, according to the land registry, from 1963.
It had an entrance tunnel in a one-storey building with a hopper, where the product was received and distributed to the different warehouses by means of endless tubes.
The next block, attached to the previous one, consists of a two-storey building where the offices and motors for the operation of the elevation are located.
In the central part there is a silo for the storage of cereal of considerable height, greater than 20 m built of reinforced concrete.
On both sides of the silo there are two warehouses, one on each side, in the form of an L, in two-storey buildings where the different types of cereals selected were stored, distributed by spices.
At the back of one of the warehouses there is a small one-storey building, attached to the silo, where the small machinery and hand tools were kept.
Finally, at the back of the plot there is a small isolated one-storey building of 15 m2 that served as a hut to house the Roman weighing scale.
All the buildings are built with solid brick load-bearing walls, reinforced with reinforced concrete buttresses every 3.5 m. The load-bearing walls are supported by the floor slabs. The roof is formed by concrete slabs on flat or slightly sloping roofs covered with waterproof paint and pre-lacquered sheet metal on the sloping roofs of the two storage buildings.
The exterior and interior carpentry is metallic, although most of the ground floor openings are walled up and protected with metal grilles to prevent intrusion.
