能量转换。这栋小楼是一个隐藏的整体的可见部分。它是帕伦西亚市新的能源基础设施的龙头。由 DH Ecoenergías 公司推广的区域供热网络，是西班牙城市能源转型的勇敢先锋。帕伦西亚的供热网络是一系列类似项目中的第一个，这些项目旨在实现全国大部分城市的去碳化，关闭成本高昂的国际采购化石燃料（柴油和天然气）供热器，取而代之的是一个以可再生资源为燃料的清洁供热网络，而可再生资源主要来自西班牙森林管理的改善。
能量转换。这栋小楼是一个隐藏的整体的可见部分。它是帕伦西亚市新的能源基础设施的龙头。由 DH Ecoenergías 公司推广的区域供热网络，是西班牙城市能源转型的勇敢先锋。帕伦西亚的供热网络是一系列类似项目中的第一个，这些项目旨在实现全国大部分城市的去碳化，关闭成本高昂的国际采购化石燃料（柴油和天然气）供热器，取而代之的是一个以可再生资源为燃料的清洁供热网络，而可再生资源主要来自西班牙森林管理的改善。
Energy Transformation. This small building is the visible part of a whole that remains hidden from view. It is the head of a new energy infrastructure for the city of Palencia. A District Heating network promoted by the company DH Ecoenergías, a brave pioneer in the energy transformation of Spanish cities. Palencia's network is the first of a long series of similar projects that seeks to decarbonize a good part of the national urban geography, turning off fossil fuel heaters - diesel and gas, costly internationally sourced - to replace them with a clean network, fueled by renewable resources that will largely come from an improved management of Spanish forests.
教育使命。区域供热网络穿过帕伦西亚市的街道，将利用可再生能源（主要是森林生物质能）生产的热水输送到市内大部分建筑中。另一方面，中央供热站发挥着技术功能--承载热水生产过程，但与此同时，它也具有客户所期望的明显的教育功能：让人们看到这种转变，支持并传播这种转变。
Pedagogical Vocation. The District Heating network runs under the streets of the capital of Palencia, carrying hot water produced with renewable energies – mainly forest biomass – to buildings in a good part of the city. The Central, on the other hand, fulfills a technical function – hosting the hot water production processes – but at the same time, it has a markedly pedagogical vocation desired by the client: to make the transformation visible and support and allow its dissemination.
这种双重条件要求我们在处理工业建筑问题时，不能仅从严格的功能角度出发，即仅考虑建筑的经济效益，而要从更广泛的建筑学角度出发。用 DH Ecoenergías 公司创始人泰奥-洛佩斯（Teo López）的话来说就是 "这个项目必须成为能源和环境转型的标志和参照，其建筑必须象征着可再生能源的来源、范式的改变以及最终城市公共卫生的改善"。
This double condition requires the approach to the problem of industrial construction not only as a strictly functional matter, where only the economic performance of the building matters, but in a more broadly architectural way. In the words of Teo López, founder of DH Ecoenergías: “This project must be an icon and reference for energy and environmental transformation, and its architecture must symbolize the sources of renewable energies, the change of paradigm, and ultimately, the improvement of public health in cities.”
底座和灯笼。因此，中心的建筑具有象征意义，无论是其几何形状--基于能源和经济的循环性，还是其材料--选择了文字和教学上的透明性--都将整体呈现为一种身份。建筑由两个主要元素组成：一个重型混凝土浴缸和一个可回收的轻钢塑料灯笼。底座用于支撑所有机械，并通过两扇大型镀锌钢门与外部和位于地下的生物质筒仓建立地面联系。混凝土基座内部有一个盖子，成为环绕所有机械的外围走道。
Base and Lantern. Thus, the architecture of the Central is symbolic, both in its geometry - based on energy and economic circularity - and in its materiality - which opts for literal and pedagogical transparency - presenting the whole as an identity. Two main elements make up the building: a bathtub of heavy concrete and a light steel and plastic lantern - recyclable. The base serves as a support for all machinery and establishes terrestrial connections with the outside - through two large, galvanized steel gates - and with the biomass silo located underground. Inside, the concrete base has a cover that becomes a perimeter walkway that surrounds all the machinery.
柱形地板使参观者能够围绕整个能源流程进行最佳的参观。钢和塑料灯笼重新诠释了典型的工业建筑经济解决方案，与社区建立了重要联系，成为一座小型能源大教堂。聚碳酸酯板的外立面--三条棱线--被配置成柔和的白色面纱，支撑在精致的镀锌和喷漆钢丝结构上。最后，一个半透明的塔将过滤过程中产生的白烟排出，占据了大部分工业空间。
The pill-shaped floor allows optimal circulation of visitors around the complete energy process. The steel and plastic lantern reinterpret economical solutions typical of industrial buildings to establish a significant connection with the community it serves as a small cathedral of energy. The facade of polycarbonate sheets - ribbed on three scales - is configured as a soft whitish veil supported on a delicate galvanized and painted steel wire structure. As a final touch, a translucent tower expels the white smoke resulting from a filtering process that occupies most of the industrial space.
