Federico García Lorca Center

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The project establishes a natural and continuous relationship between the building and the historic center through different scales of intervention. In the first place, the nearby urban space of Plaza de la Romanilla blends into the building’s foyer. The boundaries between urban and architectural space are blurred in an extended threshold. On the roofs the building acquires a smaller and domestic scale. As if it were a puzzle, the resulting texture wraps up a site that was previously empty. The geometric proposal avoids sculpting a predominant architectural form. The bold image however comes from giving shape to the resulting void. The main access is a large threshold where shadows and dark-lit areas establish three-dimensional spatial relationships. Structure and geometry are intrinsically related, so that the reinforced concrete is at once structure and facade finish. The inclusion of an industrial material in a historical context is achieved by means of textures and patterns in the formworks. Designed as a threshold, the center offers a welcoming gesture to the city, and proposes a sequence of urban settings that guides visitors to the interior while sharing the public part of the program with the exterior.

Sources

• Arquitectura Viva