Agrosemillas Offices | Impepinable Studio

Agrosemillas’ offices are set within an agro-industrial landscape shaped by the scale of large vehicles, logistical infrastructures, and production processes rather than by the scale of people. The complex stands beside a national road that separates it from the small town of El Peral — a municipality of 660 inhabitants — and is surrounded by vast agricultural fields with few immediate references. The character of the place emerges both from this territorial condition and from a climate defined by strong seasonal contrasts and recurrent episodes of torrential rain. Work rhythms follow the cycles of the harvest, alternating quieter periods with phases of continuous activity.

Within this context, the project addresses the need to introduce workspaces capable of supporting concentration, meetings, and technical development in an environment otherwise dominated by noise, dust, and logistical intensity. The building accommodates a wide range of users — from warehouse workers to engineers involved in research and innovation — whose tasks and schedules shift throughout the year. The offices, therefore, had to be flexible enough to host different forms of work while maintaining a clear spatial organization. At the same time, they were required to retain a direct relationship with the surrounding warehouses, establishing a certain formal continuity with the industrial complex.

The new building is conceived as a strategic opportunity to accompany the company’s ongoing transformation. Agrosemillas, historically linked to seed production, is entering a new stage focused on technological innovation and environmental responsibility. The architecture explicitly engages with this moment of transition, balancing continuity with the company’s existing legacy while introducing a more open, youthful, and informal identity. This attitude is expressed through the unapologetic use of the company’s corporate colors — green and yellow — applied directly across the building. The façades are punctuated by a limited number of large circular openings, protected by manually operated circular shutters that act almost like switches, allowing the building to open to or close itself off from its surroundings.

The offices were constructed simultaneously with more than 4,500 m² of new production and storage facilities, sharing construction systems, materials, and building trades. The project deliberately relies on the skills available in the immediate context: local craftsmen from the village — such as the blacksmith and the plumber — alongside formwork carpenters from the neighboring town and the industrial construction teams typically working in the region. This reliance on local expertise proved decisive in shaping the project’s technical decisions and reinforces a deliberately austere architectural approach.

Spatially, the building is organized through a clear and repeatable system. Four reused shipping containers, opened along two of their sides, rest on a concrete plinth shared with the adjacent industrial warehouses. Their arrangement generates a saw-tooth roof profile that functions as a sequence of skylights, bringing soft, even daylight deep into the interior and producing a surprisingly rich spatial atmosphere. The north-facing orientation of the open planes ensures a constant and controlled entry of natural light.

Perpendicular to this sequence, three bands structure the plan in a grid-like order: one dedicated to open workspaces, another to service areas, and a third to meeting rooms and laboratory facilities. Entrances are separated according to logistical and working flows, while the intermediate roof surfaces incorporate strips for experimental crops, physically linking research, production, and architecture within a single framework.

The building ultimately operates as a precise and restrained piece of working infrastructure — an architecture that emerges from systems, from use, and from the people whose knowledge and labor make it possible.

Photography: DEL RIO BANI