School of Hotel Management in the Old Slaughterhouse

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Sol89
Juan José López de la Cruz
María González García
Sol89

URBAN VOIDS. Medina Sidonia has a particular relief that allows the continuous contemplation of its roofs. The whitewashed walls of the farmhouse are topped with ceramic skirts which, when viewed from the crested outline of the town, appear as a single piece of clay that moulds to the topography. Its urban fabric has historically alternated between full and empty spaces in similar proportions, dotted with courtyards, farmyards and passages that have sponged up its layout. Intervening in these voids has something of accommodating oneself in them, of taking shelter in the hollows and porosities consolidated by time. P

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ROJECTS FOUND. The density of the architecture of the old 19th century slaughterhouse, consisting of walls, courtyard, stones, lime and the displaced columns of the Phoenician temple of Hercules-Melkart, contrasts with the symmetrical space that has remained empty for two centuries as a place of arrival and a corral for livestock. This emptiness is a negative reflection of the slaughterhouse itself, a vacant place limited by the powerful whitewashed wall that encloses the site and surrounds the original building.

Photo 2 - Fernando Alda
Photo 4 - Fernando Alda

THE SPACE TRAPPED UNDER THE DECK. The project proposes to trap this space under a roof that solidifies this place between walls, reinterpreting the compositional mode rooted in Medina of white volumes topped with ceramic pieces. The roof rises and falls in a broken section that is completely covered with fired ceramics. This roof houses the new programme, while the former slaughterhouse halls are emptied and the dining rooms open onto the original courtyard.

Photo 5 - Fernando Alda

LIGHT AND DENSITY. After the demolition of the elements of little interest, the original core was consolidated around the courtyard and the teaching kitchens and classrooms were arranged under the new roof, articulated by thick strips that densify the transitions.

Photo 6 - Fernando Alda

General information

School of Hotel Management in the Old Slaughterhouse

YEAR

2011

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit from public roads

Address

St. Rubiales, 8

11170 Medina Sidona - Cádiz

Latitude: 36.45511172

Longitude: -5.928685673

Classification

Building materials

Brick

Ceramic

Ceramic roof tile

Construction system

Traditional, whitewashed masonry and brick walls and ceramic roofs

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

FAD 2013

XII BEAU

Involved architects

Juan José López de la Cruz

María González García

Collaborators

Insur-JG (Installations consultant)

Alejandro Cabanas (Structural Consultant)

George Smudge (Student collaborator)

Involved architectural firms

Sol89

Information provided by

Sol89

Website links

Premios FAD

Sol89

XII BEAU

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