Oke

OKE is the new Ortuella House of Culture , in the old mining area of ​​Vizcaya. There are no longer iron sulfate extractions.

Everything has been erased, there are no more traces. We have been lucky to build there, where a main street and a square can be joined.

OKE looks side and side across a road, tangentially, as far as possible, to see and be seen from a distance in a precise approach maneuver.

Each bay defines its own section that responds to the near and the distant. From the topography of the valley the roofs are shown as one more facade and are resolved as such.

We knew the scale of the underground infrastructures, how they emerged, how everything was stained with a rusty patina.The material cannot be other than that of that memory. We wanted to build something that was there long before the absurd polygons.

Connect Otxartaga Square, the most significant public space of the village with Catalina Gibaja Street. Use this opportunity to make the new house of culture "stretch" the plaza to the street and the street to the plaza.

Work with the strong topography to define two different accesses responding to two uses defined by the program. Raising the entrance to the car park from the existing one in the square allows direct access at the foot of Catalina Gibaja street (height 0.00m) to activities related to the House of Culture: movement, circulation, events .

Allow the Multipurpose Room to function autonomously, providing an access threshold to the 3.35m elevation that, as part of the new plaza, serves as access and activities can be carried out even though the rest of the building is closed.

Allow a flexible organization by equipping with server bands the spaces that serve the foreseeable and unpredictable uses of the cultural house.