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The ICMAT will be located in an architecturally ambitious building to be constructed on the campus of the UAM. Its two opposing towers will house respectively the IFTE and the ICMAT, and the central part connecting them will house services common to both institutes (library, administration, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and a restaurant-cafeteria).
The road to construction began with an architectural competition (BOE, January 5, 2007, Resolution 73.705/06, Base bid budget of 524.752,00 euros) resolved on March 6, 2007, (BOE, April 10, 2007, Resolution 18.140/07, Award Amount: 396.187,76 euros). After the awarding of the contract, the architects of the contractor, the architect of the UAM, and representatives of both participating institutes worked together until the plans were satisfactory to all participants. The essential characteristics of the building are:
- BUILDING: The building comprises three different parts. Each center is housed in one of two lateral blocks of offices, each having five floors, which constitute the core infrastructure of the two centers. The third part, which lies between the office blocks, contains the communal areas, shared by both centers, and arranged around a square patio. This part has two floors. At ground level the access from the blocks of offices to the communal part is via several interior patios, while the continuous lower floor of the building is the part common to both institutes.
- Access to the building is via the reception lobby. The entrance hall has a height of 4.85 m and contains a waiting area, and a staircase and elevators leading to the floors immediately above and below. This staircase will be treated as representative of the architectural project, and will be of a quality corresponding to this function.
- Additionally, the lobby is connected to a square interior patio around which are situated the common seminar rooms and the main lecture hall.
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The seminar rooms common to all of the center are:
- Main lecture hall of 450 m2, with capacity for 280 people.
- A secondary lecture hall of 140 m2, with capacity for 126 people.
- 2 Seminar rooms containing movable chairs and with capacities of 55 and 50 people respectively.
- 1 video conference room with 16 computer terminals and 20 movable chairs.
- On the ground floor of each center there is for the use of that center a 90 m2 seminar room with capacity for 80 people.
- ADMINISTRATION: In the first floor above the ground floor are located the administration, which is accessed from the reception, and the access to a communal covered garden along a walkway paved with glass. The covered garden is envisioned as an area for the relaxation of the personnel of the center and is situated above the main lecture hall and the common seminar rooms. The administrative complex comprises a workspace for 5, an office for the manager, an archival area, and bathrooms. The same polished granite covers the first floor as covers the ground floor.
- LIBRARY AND DATA PROCESSING CENTER: The floor directly below the ground floor (basement), to which one accedes directly from the entrance lobby, house entities common to both centers, for example the library and the Data Processing center.
- The library is divided into two parts. The reading room is positioned longitudinally along the northern exterior (so as to avoid the inconvenience of direct sun). The large archival section is formed by compact movable shelving.
- The Data Processing Center (CPD) is situated behind the space occupied by the main lecture hall, which originates on the ground floor and occupies nearly the entirety of that floor and the one above. The remaining space not occupied by the patio houses subsidiary services and bathrooms. The CPD is reached from the common area of the ground floor via a vertebral passage giving access to the room housing servers, the SAIS room, and the room housing the clusters used for numerical computation. Additionally the CPD has a large scale copy center and a computing workshop with an independent office for the head computing technician.
- OFFICES: The independent part of each center is constituted fundamentally by offices, which have usable areas of 20 m2 (for one person), 25 m2 (for two people), and 30 m3 (for 4 people).
- DIRECTOR'S OFFICES: The director's offices of each center are located on its fifth floor, to minimize the inconveniences created by the traffic they engender. Here are the office of the director of each center, the common meeting room, the secretary's office, and an area for supporting staff. The rest of the fifth floor houses offices of scientific personnel.
- BUILDING TRACT: The tract has a fall off of 5.5 m from the south to the north. It is situated between three streets, Bertrand Russell to the north, Tomás y Valiente to the west, and Nicolás Cabrera to the south. The tract has a surface area of 8346.20 m2. It has the form of a trapezoid with two of its sides curved, following the contours of the streets Bertrand Russell and Nicolás Cabrera. Because of the incline the building's ground floor on its south side is the first floor on its north side, and the ground floor on the north side is the semibasement level on the south side.
- The gross floor area is 12 330 m2 and the built floor area is 13 443 m2.
The Council of Ministries approved the project on December 14, 2007. Bidding for the building contract (BOE, December 22, 2007, Resolution 77.846/07) opened on December 17, 2007, on which date was made also the application for the municipal building license. The base bid budget was 17.398.741,99 euros. The operning of tenders occurred in the headquarters of the CSIC on February 18, 2008, and in a public act at 11:00 a.m. on February 25, 2008, the contract was awarded to the building contractor.
The construction of the building started on the first of July, 2008, and is scheduled to finish by the Spring of 2010.