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Nueva Sede del Archivo Histórico Provincial de Guadalajara
Nueva Sede del Archivo Histórico Provincial de Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Spain
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Nueva Sede del Archivo Histórico Provincial de Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Spain
Project Featured on Jun 18, 2014
YEAR
2012
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
HISTORICAL ARCHIVE, GUADALAJARA
Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Rojo/Fernandez-Shaw, architects
www.rojofernandezshaw.es
Client: Ministry of Culture, Government of Spain
DESCRIPTIÓN _THE ARCHIVE AS CONTAINER
The proposal assumes the geometric and spatial character of the archive module-file as a point of departure, giving rise to a regular, articulated and patterned structural system that maximizes the built volume and produces a compact construction with the character of a stacking: document stacking, stacked on shelves and, ultimately, of watertight store-chambers.
On the basis of this spatial organization, concocted and homogeneous, the proposal develops by superimposing on it four operations:
First, to adapt the orthogonal and homogeneous patterned structure to the gentle slope of the plot, resting lightly the building on the ground, avoiding the placement of any document-storage space under the ground level and integrating the built volume into the natural topography of the plot and the city.
Second, to differentiate the public from the personnel areas by means of access and through level differentiations. Thus, each circulation route is endowed with its due presence on the outside while, inside, the movements and the circulations are rationalized.
Third, removing or emptying a full vertical cellblock on the front to create a space of prominent scale, transparent and representative, capable of dignifying the projection of the Archive on the public realm of the city, thus promoting integration in the urban environment at the same time that transparency towards the inside.
Fourth, superimposing a protective envelope, shaping in continuity the roof, the East and West facades, to order to enhance the image of a textile yet compact container, while facilitating an efficient climate control (indirect lighting, natural ventilation and control of exposure to sunlight).
The metallic envelope, its textile geometry and materiality, assume the role of mediating between the opaque container and the urban building opened to its environment; between the Archive as 'safe box' and its social, cultural and symbolic function in the city. Therefore the surface is permeable and decorative, filtering the flow between the inside and the outside and connecting the architecture with its surroundings.
The three-dimensional pattern of concrete walls and slabs, uniform and regulated, is deformed and altered in various ways to adapt itself to the heterogeneous reality that surrounds, adapting itself into the different instances of the city that surround it.
In short, the proposal for the Archive faces the conflict between transparency and opacity, or between permeability and solidity, as a disciplinary and material problem, in order to achieve an architecture that participates and builds the city in which it is inscribed.
Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Rojo/Fernandez-Shaw, architects
www.rojofernandezshaw.es
Client: Ministry of Culture, Government of Spain
DESCRIPTIÓN _THE ARCHIVE AS CONTAINER
The proposal assumes the geometric and spatial character of the archive module-file as a point of departure, giving rise to a regular, articulated and patterned structural system that maximizes the built volume and produces a compact construction with the character of a stacking: document stacking, stacked on shelves and, ultimately, of watertight store-chambers.
On the basis of this spatial organization, concocted and homogeneous, the proposal develops by superimposing on it four operations:
First, to adapt the orthogonal and homogeneous patterned structure to the gentle slope of the plot, resting lightly the building on the ground, avoiding the placement of any document-storage space under the ground level and integrating the built volume into the natural topography of the plot and the city.
Second, to differentiate the public from the personnel areas by means of access and through level differentiations. Thus, each circulation route is endowed with its due presence on the outside while, inside, the movements and the circulations are rationalized.
Third, removing or emptying a full vertical cellblock on the front to create a space of prominent scale, transparent and representative, capable of dignifying the projection of the Archive on the public realm of the city, thus promoting integration in the urban environment at the same time that transparency towards the inside.
Fourth, superimposing a protective envelope, shaping in continuity the roof, the East and West facades, to order to enhance the image of a textile yet compact container, while facilitating an efficient climate control (indirect lighting, natural ventilation and control of exposure to sunlight).
The metallic envelope, its textile geometry and materiality, assume the role of mediating between the opaque container and the urban building opened to its environment; between the Archive as 'safe box' and its social, cultural and symbolic function in the city. Therefore the surface is permeable and decorative, filtering the flow between the inside and the outside and connecting the architecture with its surroundings.
The three-dimensional pattern of concrete walls and slabs, uniform and regulated, is deformed and altered in various ways to adapt itself to the heterogeneous reality that surrounds, adapting itself into the different instances of the city that surround it.
In short, the proposal for the Archive faces the conflict between transparency and opacity, or between permeability and solidity, as a disciplinary and material problem, in order to achieve an architecture that participates and builds the city in which it is inscribed.
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