The Ma: Andalucia's Museum of Memory

Calle Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain

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The Ma: Andalucia's Museum of Memory

Calle Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain

Firm

Alberto Campo Baeza

Type

Cultural › Museum

YEAR

2009

SIZE

1,000,000 +

We would like to make “the most beautiful building” for the Museo de al
Memoria de Andalucía (Andalusia’s Museum of Memory) in Granada. The MA. A
museum that wishes to transmit the entire history of Andalusia. As early as
Roman times, Strabo described the inhabitants of Andalusia as “the most
cultivated of the Iberians, who have laws in verse.”

Our project for the MA is a building in line with the Central Headquarters
of the CAJA GRANADA Savings Bank that we finished in 2001. We propose a podium
building measuring 60x120 m and rising three stories, so that its upper floor
coincides with the podium of the main CAJA GRANADA building. And its façade as
well. Everything is arranged around a central courtyard, in elliptical form in
which circular ramps rise, connecting the three levels and creating a very
interesting spatial tension. The dimensions of the elliptical courtyard have
been taken from the courtyard of the Palace of Charles the V in the Alhambra.

And to crown it all, as if it were a Gate to the City, a strong vertical
piece emerges, the same height and width as the main building of the CAJA
GRANADA. It thus appears before the highway that circles Granada as a
screen-façade that sends messages over the large plasma screens that will cover
it entirely. Like Piccadilly Circus in London or Times Square in New York.

And to finish the entire operation, a large horizontal platform all the
way to the River, the MA open FIELD that will serve as a public space in that
new area of the city of Granada.

The new building, silent in its forms, is resounding in its elements to
communicate the messages of the new millennium in which we are already
immersed.