Federico García Lorca Centre

MX_SI architectural studio (4)
MX_SI architectural studio
Boris Bezan
Héctor Mendoza
Mara Partida
Norma Mónica Juvera Jiménez

The boundary between urban historic context and contemporary architecture spaces blends by extending the threshold on a dynamic concrete construction. The building establishes a natural, continuous relationship with Granada’s historic city by means of two main scales of intervention:

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-The immediate urban space of Plaza de la Romanilla blends into a single continuous space with the building’s main foyer. The boundary between urban and architectural space blurs, extending the threshold.

EUMies Award
Pedro Pegenaute

-At roof level, the building acquires a smaller, more domestic scale. The resulting texture, as in a jigsaw puzzle, completes the existing urban tissue where there used to be an empty plot. The geometric proposal avoids sculpting a prominent architectural form.

Pedro Pegenaute

The force of the image is produced instead by the resulting void: the threshold, the passageway. The building establishes a natural, continuous relationship with Granada’s historic city by means of different scales of intervention:

The immediate urban space of Plaza de la Romanilla blends into a single continuous space with the building’s main foyer. The boundary between urban and architectural space blurs, extending the threshold.

Pedro Pegenaute
MX_SI architectural studio

At roof level, the building acquires a smaller, more domestic scale. The resulting texture, as in a jigsaw puzzle, completes the existing urban tissue where there used to be an empty plot.

MX_SI architectural studio

The geometric proposal avoids sculpting a prominent architectural form. The force of the image is produced instead by shaping the resulting void. The main entrance is a great threshold where shadows and half light create an interplay of three dimensional spatial relationships. Structure and geometry are so closely related that the poured concrete was used for both the bearing structure and the main finishing material. Integration of this almost industrial material in a historical setting is achieved by applying textures and patterns to the concrete surfaces. This strategy is a fresh new way of using poured concrete, as well as a way of giving the building a warmer presence in the historic city centre.

Pedro Pegenaute

The building is laid out in two volumes that maintain visual connection at every level. The structural elements are located around the edge of the irregular site, connecting the two volumes at the top with a tripod beam. The absence of intermediate structural elements allows the accommodation on the ground floor of the auditorium with its 400 movable seats and, on the basement floor, the large exhibition gallery. Movable walls open up the auditorium onto the foyer to create a more versatile space that continues the plaza thanks to the new micro topography

General information

Federico García Lorca Centre

YEAR

2015

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit by appointment

Address

Sq. Romanilla,

18001 Granada - Granada

Latitude: 37.176577566

Longitude: -3.600696408

Classification

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

ACUE 2017

Involved architects

Boris Bezan

Héctor Mendoza

Mara Partida

Norma Mónica Juvera Jiménez

Involved architectural firms

MX_SI architectural studio

Information provided by

EUMies Award

Website links

EUMies Award

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