Federico García Lorca Cultural Centre

The building establishes a natural and continuous relationship with Granada city centre through different scales of intervention. The urban space of  Plaza “la Romanilla” blens into one single and continuous space with the main foyer in the interior of the building. The boundary between urban and architecture spaces blurs extending the threshold. At roof level, the building acquires a smaller and more domestic scale. The resulting texture plays a jig-saw puzzle game, completing the existing urban tissue where there was a hole. The geometric proposal avoids sculpting a prominent architectonic form. The impact image comes from shaping the resulting void. The main entrance is a large threshold where shadows and penumbra play three-dimensional spatial relationships. Because of the resulting geometry, the building demands non-standard construction details, resulting in an artisanal way of construction.

Competition: 1st. prize, January 2005
Status: Completed on June 2015
Location: Granada, Spain
Client: Federico Garcia Lorca Foundation
Budget: 18,5M€
Area: 4,500 sqm
Architects: Boris Bezan, Mónica Juvera, Mara Partida, Héctor Mendoza (MXSI)
Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute