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Passageway- Foyer_ Interior and exterior spaces meet in an alley space
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Interior and exterior spaces are in constant spatial and visual relation
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The passageway is enriched with Granada’s vivid natural light
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Theater extends to the passageway and to public space
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Vertical Journey with glimpses to exterior and interior spaces
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Ground floor is integrated with Granada's public spaces
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Theater and cafe take part of public space life in a continuum
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Roof plan repeats the same scale of urban tissue of sorroundings
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Public space grades down to a more intimate scale through a funnel shaped section foyer
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Smaller scale programs are allocated at upper levels preserving visual conection to passageway
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solidary structure
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aereal view
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section perspective through passageway foyer
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Federico García Lorca Centre
MX-SI architectural studio. Granada, Spain
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Name of work in English
Federico García Lorca Centre
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Name of work in original language
Centro Federico García Lorca
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2017
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Work Location
Granada, Spain
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Studio
MX-SI architectural studio
EUmies Awards 2017 Nominees
Collaborators
Program
Culture
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Labels
Culture Centre · Theatre
Completion
2015
Cost
3.2 €/m²
The building establishes a natural, continuous relationship with Granada’s historic city by means of two main scales of intervention: -The immediate urban space of Plaza de la Romanilla blends into a single continuous space with the building’s main foyer. The boundary between urban and architectural space blurs, extending the threshold. -At roof level, the building acquires a smaller, more domestic scale. The resulting texture, as in a jigsaw puzzle, completes the existing urban tissue where there used to be an empty plot. The geometric proposal avoids sculpting a prominent architectural form. The force of the image is produced instead by the resulting void: the threshold, the passageway.
The building establishes a natural, continuous relationship with Granada’s historic city by means of different scales of intervention: The immediate urban space of Plaza de la Romanilla blends into a single continuous space with the building’s main foyer. The boundary between urban and architectural space blurs, extending the threshold. At roof level, the building acquires a smaller, more domestic scale. The resulting texture, as in a jigsaw puzzle, completes the existing urban tissue where there used to be an empty plot. The geometric proposal avoids sculpting a prominent architectural form. The force of the image is produced instead by shaping the resulting void. The main entrance is a great threshold where shadows and halflight create an interplay of threedimensional spatial relationships.
Structure and geometry are so closely related that the poured concrete was used for both the bearing structure and the main finishing material. Integration of this almost industrial material in a historical setting is achieved by applying textures and patterns to the concrete surfaces. This strategy is a fresh new way of using poured concrete, as well as a way of giving the building a warmer presence in the historic city centre. The building is laid out in two volumes that maintain visual connection at every level. The structural elements are located around the edge of the irregular site, connecting the two volumes at the top with a tripod beam. The absence of intermediate structural elements allows the accommodation on the ground floor of the auditorium with its 400 movable seats and, on the basement floor, the large exhibition gallery. Movable walls open up the auditorium onto the foyer to create a more versatile space that continues the plaza thanks to the new micro-topography