Matilde Peralta Del Amo

Banco de España Library Restoration

Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin

BANCO DE ESPAÑA LIBRARY RESTORATION

Matilde Peralta del Amo

PHOTOGRAPHS
Luis Asin

LEAD ARCHITECT
Matilde Peralta del Amo

CONSTRUCTOR
Dragados S.A.

COLLABORATOR
Rafael Álvarez-Rementeria

ACOUSTIC ENGINEER
Arauacústica

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT
Santiago Hernán

PROMOTOR
Banco de España

FACILITIES ENGINEER
Ingenialia

YEAR
2018

AREA
1005 m²

CATEGORY
Library, Restoration

LOCATION
Madrid, Spain

Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin

Text description provided by architect.

The Bank of Spain is the national central bank and the supervisor of the Spanish banking system together with the European Central Bank.

Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin

Its main headquarters is located in the center of the city of Madrid, at the Cibeles square.

It occupies a complete block and was built in several phases from the late 19th century till the beginning of the 21st century.

Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin

The first building was built following the project of the architects Eduardo Adaro and Severiano Sainz de la Lastra. It is a linear building parallel to the Paseo del Prado, which twists diagonally, in Cibeles square corner.

In the interior of the chamfer axis and next to it, is the old operations centre, nowadays the library’s reading room, object of the present restoration.

Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin

It is a space that preserves the cast iron lattices and the intact ironwork structure that was executed in the town of Mieres by Bernardo Asins.

The Reading Room is a relevant element of the architecture of its time. The object of the restoration was to recover the value of this space.The iron cast lattices were dirty due to the pass of time. The many coat paints generated unwanted thickening.

And several interventions, carried out in order to improve the conditions of habitability, distorted the original perception of space.

Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin


Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin
Banco de España Library Restoration
© Luis Asin


Banco de España Library Restoration
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Banco de España Library Restoration
Sketch
Banco de España Library Restoration
Sketch

Matilde Peralta Del Amo
Matilde Peralta Del Amo
Cáceres‎, Spain