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Relation between spaces
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Interior view, main exhibition hall
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Detail of the staircase
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Interior view, second exhibition hall
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Exterior view from the courtyard
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Site plan
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Ground floor
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Section 01
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Section 02
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A2 panel
Exhibition Hall in the former Santo Domingo Convent
Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas, Elisa Valero. Huéscar, Spain
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Name of work in English
Exhibition Hall in the former Santo Domingo Convent
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Name of work in original language
Rehabilitación para sala de exposiciones. Convento de Santo Domingo
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2019
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Work Location
Huéscar, Spain
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Studio
Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas, Elisa Valero
EUmies Awards 2019 Nominees
Refurbishment of Exhibition Hall in the former Santo Domingo Convent (Huescar)
Program
Culture
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Labels
Art Gallery · Exhibition
Site area
406 m²
Total gross floor
406 m²
Completion
2017
Cost
340 €/m²
The intervention is carried out in one of the original wings with wood paneling, later reinforced to be used as a wheat store and in the annexed ship that was demolished. The intervention respects to the maximum the existing one and it tries to make a recovery of the space and adaptation to exhibition room of low cost. There is a new staircase leading to the upper floor. The slab, which had sunk, has been replaced with a ripple on the underside that acoustically works very well. Carpentry is reused by filtering the light with alabaster.
Following the former project by Antonio Jimenez Torrecillas the project combines contemporary new elements as the stair with the respect for the historic building.
Traditional construction in the restoration and aluminium light technology staircase -