Porcuna Parish Centre

Pablo Manuel Millán Millán

The project arises in a chaotic urban void shaped by the passage of time. The reconciliation of a void with a new content (a neutral full-scale model of the former construction). Intervening in the historic city implies inserting a new order that allows all the pre-existences to be read logically. The plot on which we are working has all the conditions of a city area with all the historic density concentrated. An important manor house was demolished in the 1950s, leaving a significant urban void. This house in turn was heir to medieval structures attached to the wall and in turn inserted into the architecture of the Roman city of Obulco.

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Javier Callejas Sevilla

In this complex weave of the city, and almost like a dreamlike image of Giorgio de Chirico, we designed a clean, stripped-down, essential architecture, with wide ambulatories as meeting places and large open-plan rooms to accommodate the programme. The project must take on board the pre-existence of some rooms and bring order to everything.

Planta baja - Estudio Pablo Millán

We take on a historical structure, the cloister corner vault, and as R. Moneo underlines in The Life of Buildings, by means of an ordered, rhythmic and silent repetition, we insert a contemporary reading in this historical window of the municipality. The project chooses to insert an important geometry, an organising layout that allows balance at all times to be brought to this great urban void riddled with untidy rear and party walls.

Plano situación - Estudio Pablo Millán

General information

Porcuna Parish Centre

YEAR

2021

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit from public roads

Address

Sq. de la Constitución, 12

23790 Porcuna - Jaén

Latitude: 37.870678099

Longitude: -4.186427617

Classification

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

XV BEAU

Involved architects

Pablo Manuel Millán Millán

Collaborators

Javier Muñoz Godino (Architect)

Julio Herrera del Pino (Architect)

Inmaculada Cervera Montilla (Architect)

Javier Serrano Terrones (Technical architect)

Simona Belmondo (Architect)

Javier Bengoa Díaz (Engineering)

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