Monastery of the Franciscan RR MM (Convent of the Rollo)

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Estudio de Arquitectura Antonio Fernández Alba
Antonio Fernández Alba
Francisco Gálvez Martín
Alejandro Palancares Gayo
Jesús Morín Alba
Estudio de Arquitectura Antonio Fernández Alba

The monastery is modulated with a criterion similar to that of Hispano-Arabic architecture, sequences of large uninterrupted spaces where the play of light is constantly enhancing it; the building is poured towards the inner cloister, and open, through a large belvedere, to the landscape of Gredos; two cloisters in the traditional manner of Spanish convents channel the circulations, the lower one open and the one on the first floor closed.

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The cells are housed in two large bands with identical lighting, views and sunlight. The nuns are accommodated, depending on their age, on different levels, thus avoiding the inconvenience of moving to the different rooms.

Monastery of the RR MM Franciscans - Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA)
Monastery of the RR MM Franciscans - Luis Argüelles

This project, carried out in 1958 and built between 1961 and 1962, responded, due to the characteristics of the programme and the economic circumstances that surrounded it, to an eminently solid construction, far removed from all the virtuosities or anachronisms of an economic potential as evident as that developed by the religious construction carried out in Spain and specifically in the city of Salamanca.

South façade of the convent - Estudio de Arquitectura Antonio Fernández Alba

General information

Monastery of the Franciscan RR MM (Convent of the Rollo)

YEAR

1962

Status

Built

Option to visit

Closed to visitors

Address

St. Ponferrada, 23

37003 Salamanca - Salamanca

Latitude: 40.966672319

Longitude: -5.647513978

Classification

Building materials

Stone

Brick

Construction system

Traditional, whitewashed masonry and brick walls and ceramic roofs

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

PNA 1963

Involved architects

Alejandro Palancares Gayo

Antonio Fernández Alba

Francisco Gálvez Martín

Jesús Morín Alba

Involved architectural firms

Estudio de Arquitectura Antonio Fernández Alba

Information provided by

Estudio de Arquitectura Antonio Fernández Alba

Fondo documental DOCOMOMO Ibérico

Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA)

Website links

Fondo documental DOCOMOMO Ibérico

Historical Service of the Official Association of Architects of Madrid (COAM)

Zodiac nº 15 1965

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