Succulents Museum Public Space

Succulents Museum Public Space
Cortesía de Estudio de Arquitectura MAGICARCH

SUCCULENTS MUSEUM PUBLIC SPACE

Estudio De Arquitectura Magicarch + Enrique Nieto + Antonio Abellán + Verbestudio

ARCHITECTS
Antonio Abellán, Enrique Nieto, Estudio De Arquitectura Magicarch, Verbestudio

YEAR
2019

ENGINEERING
Urbamusa

LOCATION
Spain

MANUFACTURERS
Geycon 07 Sl

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Maria Jose Marcos, Enrique Nieto

COLLABORATORS
María Escribano Viñas, Jonathan Berna Amorós, Natalia Gómez

CLIENTS
Adn Urbano, Ayuntamiento De Murcia

CATEGORY
Public Space, Park, Museum

Text description provided by architect.

The museum of cacti and succulents is an architecture that emerges from an agile and light way of acting in the city supported by the strategy of ‘urban acupuncture , which allows us to create a new urban garden in the city of Murcia more quickly.

Succulents Museum Public Space
Cortesía de Estudio de Arquitectura MAGICARCH
Succulents Museum Public Space
Cortesía de Estudio de Arquitectura MAGICARCH

This new garden is obtained by connecting a redundant car island to a pedestrian zone.

Thus from a residual space in the city where garbage was stored, a new pedagogical garden is obtained , an open-air museum of succulents that contributes to the decrease of electrosmog and electro-pollution while allowing children to discover the succulent species from all over the planet.

Succulents Museum Public Space
Cortesía de Estudio de Arquitectura MAGICARCH
Succulents Museum Public Space
Cortesía de Estudio de Arquitectura MAGICARCH

The project of the new Museum of Succulents is framed within the proposals of the Urban DNA of the Murcia City Council, and is articulated as a new intergenerational space where car-less prevails and a piece of the city is returned for the priority enjoyment of the elderly and children.

This new Museum of Succulents is a pedagogical garden that instructs on the flora and a sector of plant species, in particular succulent plants of the world, in order to bring learning to urban parks about botany and nature.

Succulents Museum Public Space
Cortesía de Estudio de Arquitectura MAGICARCH
Succulents Museum Public Space
Cortesía de Estudio de Arquitectura MAGICARCH

The surrounding road traffic makes the use of this new found space uncomfortable and that is why two ecological mattresses are designed by means of two fuchsia and turquoise rectangular planters, which absorb noise and partially isolate the placeta with vines.

A fuchsia grandstand is installed, from which the entire plant museum can be seen from a higher level.

Succulents Museum Public Space
Cortesía de Estudio de Arquitectura MAGICARCH
Succulents Museum Public Space
Cortesía de Estudio de Arquitectura MAGICARCH

The fuchsia stand has faceted geometry so that children can play with skateboards and skates, and during the morning the older ones rest in the shelter of the strong shadows thrown by the mulberry trees that evade the strong sun of southern Spain.

Succulents Museum Public Space
Cortesía de Estudio de Arquitectura MAGICARCH
Succulents Museum Public Space
Cortesía de Estudio de Arquitectura MAGICARCH


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