Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua

Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende

INTERPRETATION AND WELCOME CENTER FOR VISITORS IN LA ANTIGUA

Ventura + Llimona

CLIENT
Ayuntamiento De Zumarraga (Zumarraga Lantzen S. A. U.)

MUSEOLOGY
Anna Escarpanter Llandrich, Ana Galdós Monfort.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Ventura+llimona, Taller D’arquitectura I Disseny

BUILDING SERVICES
Plana Hurtós Enginyers S.l.p.

STRUCTURES
Blázquez Guanter, Consultors D’estrucutures S.l.p.

TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT
Marian Arizti Beloki

CONSTRUCTION
Construcciones Amenábar S.a.

COLLABORATORS
Kaoru Fujii, Yoshihide Kobanawa, Glòria Busquets, Mònica Sànchez.

PROJECT ARCHITECTS
Salvador Ventura De Blas, Pau Llimona Broto (Ventura+llimona, Taller D’arquitectura I Disseny )

COSTS
2.271.856, 90€/ Building 1.794.431, 60€ / Development 477.425, 30 €

TOTAL AREA
1.397,70 M2

BUILDING AREA
1.305,95 M2

DEVELOPMENT AREA
3.270,00 M2.

SITE AREA
31.400 M2.

ACCESS AREA
91,75 M2

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Zumarraga, Spain

CATEGORY
Visitor Center, Exhibition Center, Cultural Center

Text description provided by architect.

In February 2009 the City of Zumarraga (Gipuzkoa) announced a competition for designing the Interpretation and Welcome Center for Visitors in La Antigua.

Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende
Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende

Besides the permanent exhibition, the program called for a temporary exhibition hall, a conference room, a restaurant, and storage services.

All these spaces are especially designed for their intended uses and to operate independently from other facilities, as they can be completely isolated from the rest if necessary.

Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende
Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende

The facilities have been constructed in a site adjacent to the Romanesque shrine of La Antigua, also known as "the cathedral of Basque chapels" and with great tourism potential.

Therefore, we should not break with the landscape or exceed the height of the chapel, but as necessary for its function as tourist facility.

Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende
Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende
Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende

Thus the view of parking areas has been canceled from the porch and the center, it is buried in its 65%, entering the mount and minimizing the visual impact, contributing to the sustainability of the building, offset by a contribution of geothermal energy.

The search for a single discourse to integrate content has led to continued dialogue to unite the museologic and architectural interest. The design is formalized from the history of the place.

The porch that greets the visitor is both a great vantage point of the town of Zumarraga and the chapel.

Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende
Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende
Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende

The design of the building and construction materials are an interpretation of the natural resources of the area: wood, stone and iron, subsistence economies of La Antigua and Zumarraga.

In the access ramp to the center there is already an ornamental design, a metallic tubular material. This material present inside and outside the center, symbolizes the forest and its exploitation and also hints at the significant role of metallurgy in this county.

Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende
Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende

It is designed as an element that is structural, ornamental, divider, museum support and transmitter of weather and light.

But the center also shows other representations of the forest: light gaps on the porch, molded walls like a negative of trunks, and views to the outside, the living forest landscape.

Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende
Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende

The river, as it organized human settlement in the past, today organizes spaces in the facility.

It is represented by the large skylight that runs through the building, a concept emerged from the galleries-stands of some facades of Zumarraga. A river of light for interior spaces that addresses circulation routes.

Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende
Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende

A heat collection element in winter that moves through the aspiration of the chimneys of the building, which in summer allows us to do the reverse effect.

The display elements are also designed solely for this center. These are all key factors contributing exclusivity, personality and quality to the visit.

Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende
Interpretation And Welcome Center For Visitors In La Antigua
© Jorge Allende

The facility has been designed with one goal: unity between conceptual design and contents, since we have designed an Interpretation and Welcome Center for Visitors.


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