Fine Arts Museum

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Estudio Arquitectura Hago
Antonio Álvarez-Cienfuegos Rubio
Emilio Delgado Martos
Estudio Arquitectura Hago

We project a complex whose starting point is the expansion of the existing museum, located in a listed building in the center of Badajoz. Due to the difficult circumstances that come together in this place (archaeological remains, party walls and the rehabilitation of the listed building) a powerful and coherent architectural response is required.

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A typological scheme organized by an inverted “L”, responds to the functional, spatial, structural and technical aspects. This scheme is fostered (inside and outside) through a cladding, a perforated prestressed concrete panel, whose scale and pattern seem to print a message in the skin of the building.

Fernando Alda
Fernando Alda

The complex includes two new buildings that are connected through a courtyard and are opened to two different streets of the city. One building houses a permanent collection and it is attached to the original construction, adapting the new levels to the existing ones. The other block can be used for temporary exhibitions and it houses the headquarters offices in the fourth floor. They are connected by a courtyard, allowing using the complex from different ways. In summer is possible to organize jazz concerts.

Fernando Alda

Large panels of glazing with white frames are set off centre into bevelled metal clad surrounds to form the entrance points to each of the buildings. Behind a double height lobby faced with glass, a perforated metal platform with slim white railings forms the first floor of the permanent exhibition space. On the third level, the floor slopes dramatically upwards to account for the bevelled facade. Strips of glazing cut through the glossy white floors offer views into the galleries below and above. Levels in the new parts of the building are connected by a narrow white staircase, which is filled with natural light thanks to circular skylights overhead. On the upper floors of the temporary exhibition space, interior windows with deep black frames look from the new space into a terracota toned stairwell with ornate metalwork.

The efficient and silent result allows the building to be integrated into the city without resorting to a compositional exercise, overflowing the physical limits of the buildings and turning the proposed spaces into real stars of the urban environment. This project represents an encounter with beauty where the memory, and its power of remaining in time, converts the whole museum into a new social, urban and artistic reality in the center of Badajoz.

Fernando Alda
Estudio Arquitectura Hago

The project seeks sustainability through the Efficiency applied to three fields: Energy, Economy and Construction. We applied the following processes: Limited Energy consumption, use of passive systems on the façade, maintenance costs reduction and optimization of the construction stage. The project was carried out with a gross investment ratio close to 1500euros/m2, lower than other similar projects.

Fernando Alda

General information

Fine Arts Museum

YEAR

2014

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit by appointment

Address

St. Duque de San Germán, 3

06001 Badajoz - Badajoz

Latitude: 38.880238

Longitude: -6.9717164

Classification

Building materials

Concrete

Steel

Terrazzo

Construction system

Pre-stressed panels (façade) | Galvanised steel (roofs) | Polished terrazzo (flooring)

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

ACUE 2015

Involved architects

Antonio Álvarez-Cienfuegos Rubio

Emilio Delgado Martos

Collaborators

Carlos Rubio Manso (Technical architect)

Javier Bachiller Alonso (Collaborator)

Úrculo Ingenieros S.A. (Calculation of installations)

Juan Ruiz (Structural calculation)

Manuel Trenado (Technical architect)

Ignacio Herrero Frutos (Collaborator)

Andrés Rubio Morán (Structural calculation)

José Luis Gómez Morillo (Technical architect)

Iago Sánchez Besteiro (Collaborator)

Luis Fernández Conejero (Calculation of installations)

Eliseo Pérez (Structural calculation)

Involved architectural firms

Estudio Arquitectura Hago

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EUMies Award

Website links

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