- Area:
13918 ft²
Year:
2024
Manufacturers: Blanfer, Campo ceramics, Cortez, Daisalux, Pharaoh , They are going, Velilla metallic, New Inertia, RZB, TEZNOCUBER, Euphrates, roferlo
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Chief Architect:
Gabriel Gallegos Alonso
Description of the text provided by the architects. The Cultural Center is located in the urban center of the city, in the Plaza de la Constitución. In this square, the isolated presence of the Old Church of the Ascension stands out, the only building that maintains its historical feel in a heterogeneous context and very renovated due to the significant demographic growth of the population, very close to the city of Salamanca.
The new building is based on the site, choosing the best part of it as a reference: the church, its access porch, the row of columns, whose light and open character was the formal reference of the proposal. The Cultural Center is part of a large portal, an open gallery that immerses us in the history of buildings designed for common use, such as the Stoas, permeable and functionally flexible constructions.
The portico, which faces the square, during the day, protects from the frequency of the sun, giving intimacy to the interior space, and from the inside it gives us the fiction of being outside, an ambiguity that is reversed at dusk, when the space is inside. It is projected towards the outside as a scenery whose protagonists are the people who are committed to different cultural tasks, which invite us to participate in them.
The rhythmic order of the loggia is synthesized with a free and fluid interior space capable of developing a diverse cultural program developed on a floor plan with an irregular triangular morphology at different levels above the ground, as the construction ultimately rejected the living room . property. actions that were at the basement level and that were planned in the proposal for the project pre-competition; The back patio and the void of the lobby, as well as a triangular base, which represented the space in the basement, were then somewhat orphaned to their larger functional and spatial entity in the competition proposal.
The arrangement of service and vertical communication cores at the ends of the floor facilitates the distribution of the program, freeing the intermediate space; The internal circulation between the server cores is complemented by external circulation through corridors that also act as external expansion and reading spaces.
On the plaza level, there is the lobby and access control as well as a multi-functional room that is united with the outside space through large sliding doors. At the first level, classrooms are organized to teach and carry out various cultural activities. The library is located in the last levels, connected by an internal staircase; The double-height space that visually connects them opens to the outside porch, where a terrace serves as an extended reading area.
This new cultural facility is based on heritage history and tradition, which always provides a sense of validity, and aims to be a space for participation, a meeting place, and a cultural home for citizens.
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