Archaeological Museum of Alava

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Mangado y Asociados
Francisco José Mangado Beloqui

We like to imagine an archaeological museum as a dense chest which, like any chest, hides inside it the treasure that history has left us piece by piece. We like to think of it as one more story of ours that never ends, because in it, just as important as the small or large piece found under the floor is the gaze of whoever contemplates it. This is why the small chest, dense and hermetic on the outside, must be suggestive and magical on the inside.

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The space it contains cannot be limited to being a computer space, nor a game of beautiful but distant architecture; it must be a place capable of evoking places and people from the small fragment of ceramic that, more powerful than rock, has managed to survive to speak to us of the fragility of time.

Roland Halbe
Roland Halbe

In the permanent exhibition rooms, the horizontal planes, floors and ceilings are very dark. The "stick" wood floor, almost black, and the continuous ceiling, also black. This is the box that takes us back to time, concentrated in the layers of earth that over the years, one after the other, have been forming the thick wall that is history. But these spaces are pierced by white glass prisms around which the exhibition of the pieces is organised.

Roland Halbe

The building is configured on the basis of the context and the continuity it establishes with the adjoining Palacio de Bendaña, currently the Álava Fournier Museum of Playing Cards. The main entrance is through the same courtyard that serves as the entrance to the palace and provides an insight into the whole complex. Functionally, the building is organised in such a way that the work areas, as well as the library and workshops, are located on the ground floor facing the street, with independent access from the main entrance.

Roland Halbe

General information

Archaeological Museum of Alava

YEAR

2009

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit by appointment

Address

St. Pintorería, 33

01001 VitoriaGasteiz - Araba

Latitude: 42.849561422

Longitude: -2.670790625

Classification

Building materials

Bronze

Glass

Wood

Built area

5001 - 20000 m²

Awards

XI BEAU

FAD 2010

ACUE 2011

Involved architects

Francisco José Mangado Beloqui

Collaborators

Laura Montoya López de Heredia (Technical Architect)

Richard Král’ovič (Architecture)

Iturralde y Sagüés ingenieros / César Martín Gómez (Facilities engineering)

José Mª Gastaldo (Architecture)

Eduardo Pérez de Arenaza (Architecture)

NB 35 SL (Structural engineering)

Involved architectural firms

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Website links

EUMies Award

FAD Awards

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XI BEAU

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