CEMANSA. Rest Centre

Between orchards of almond trees and olive trees stands out a rotund and heavy architecture: the factory. I know exactly what I'm looking for, a project that oscillates among architecture, rehabilitation, landscape and the game with memory, that all of them put into operation. A project of meanings and memories. A lived, traveled and felt project.

Having analyzed the characteristics and the current state (situation) of "La Tejera" channel and the immediate environment to which this project is directly linked, a landscape intervention is proposed with the main objective of recovering and above all stopping its disappearance both because of its size and because of the vegetation that naturally grows in its path. Thus, a walk is projected (to the pedestrian side) on the other side of the road that draws the rambla in its entire route, from the current moment-vehicle wash to the channel disappears being this linked to (siendo este enlazado con) the foot of the "Sierra del Chortal ", passing through the spot of " El Chortal "and the hermitage. The hotel complex adjoins the existing structure of rectangular nave between two wings of symmetrical silos and two similar facades. Access, is found in the marked axis of symmetry of the factory which suggests and invites the visitors to enter from the access road to the hotel. The volume that sustains the portico prior to accessing the central nave, frames the function of offices, security and administrative staff of the hotel. Below, in the porticoed structure and with a very light structure, transparent and differentiated from the existing one, there is a reception office and a meeting room. Inside, in the large space that is generated between the sides of silos, it recovers, not only the geometry of the historic roof that surrounds us in a huge basilical space and protects the interior space, but also, by glazing the sides of the roof adjoining the silos, the perception of the height of the silos in front of the central cover is maintained. The rooms, in the silos, open through framed holes respecting the original nerves of the concrete structure. Two types of rooms are available. All the openings of the silos are opened through a metal frame separated from the original structure and respecting the dimension of the concrete nerves.