Murcia Projects 4 Created 18-Apr-11 By halli galli, Graz, Austria Murcia City Hall 2 Murcia, Rafael Moneo government, office Museo de la Catedral de Murcia Educational centre Virgen de Arrixaca 4 Murcia, AH Asociados education, health care, hospital, university 3 Murcia, exposition space, museum, renovation http://wwwmimoaeu/users/blue_elephant/guides/murcia/ Centro Parraga 5 Murcia, exposition space, library, theatre 1
photo: José F García Martín photo: José F García Martín Murcia City Hall Plaza Cardenal Belluga 30004 Murcia http://wwwayto-murciaes The Murcia Town Hall raises in the Cardinal Belluga Square, a baroque square where the protagonist are the façade of the Cathedral designed by Jaime Bort and Cardinal Belluga Palace, the work of the architect Canestro Moneo designs the building of the Town Hall content in its role as a spectator, without seeking the status of protagonist held by the two historical buildings However we do not imagine a commonplace spectator Civil power is embodied in this building on the place where the Church shows its power The façade/retable of the Town Hall facing the square could never, nor would ever, want to compete with the classical order It's organised as a musical score, numerically, accepting the system of horizontal levels of the floor slabs The façade resist symmetries and offers as its key element the balcony of the gallery The Town Hall has not an entrance on the square It respects the pre-eminence of those buildings which have occupied it for so long (text from project memory) 1998 Rafael Moneo City of Murcia photo: José F García Martín There is a tourist office just beside the corner of the building, for more information about the building and the city Only some zones of the building are open the public The opening hours are: Monday-Friday 9am to 2pm Monday-Thursday 5pm to 730pm Saturdays 930am to 130pm The City Hall is in the very center of Murcia The one route to come to the Plaza Cardenal Belluga is by foot since all the vehicles were prohibited in the historical hull of the city http://wwwmimoaeu/users/blue_elephant/guides/murcia/ 2
photo: José F García Martín photo: José F García Martín Museo de la Catedral de Murcia Plaza de la Cruz 1 30001 Murcia http://wwwmuseosdemurciacom/catedral/indexphp This project has renewed and expanded the Murcia Cathedral's Museum It shows a contemporary construction contrasting with the original gothic structure The new materials are used fearless and there is not any attempt to hide them The entrance's glazed passage is the most characteristic element of the renovation; it allows seeing the foundations of the former Mosque The exhibition space is divided in two levels The lower one occupies several chapels; the intervention is limited to restore and recover the original structure, adding a wooden floor and technical elements The upper exhibition floor is at the cloister's archery; the intervention is stronger here: a bright white in-situ floor, a metal fire-proof painted ceiling and galvanized steel installation conducts are clearly visible The courtyard of the former cloister hosts the new core of communications and services; elements like a green concrete staircase and artificial grass floored rest room show its modern construction 10-2007 900 m² Comunidad Autónoma Región de Murcia photo: José F García Martín Tuesday to Saturday: 10:00-12:30 & 17:00-19:30 / Sunday: 10:00-13:00 Sunday visits are free of charge http://wwwmimoaeu/users/blue_elephant/guides/murcia/ 3
Educational centre Virgen de Arrixaca Ctra de Cartagena 30120 El Palmar Murcia The Educational Centre Virgen de la Arrixaca at the Hospital in El Palmar, Murcia was earmarked to be the future Faculty of Medicine It is an independent project which is being tailored to the two scales which exist on the site, at the edge of the hospital enclosure; on the one hand the level of access similar to that of the other buildings in the hospital complex, and on the other, the chief volume of access opposite the open countryside which surrounds it In the rest of the building the varying University departments are placed according to the longitudinal axis which are lighted through the empty spaces excavated in the volume and which are enshrouded in a second skin screen-printed in gold, which filters the light by using the reference of the stony texture used in the building, thus evoking a dialogue between the ways of limiting the existing volume of a transparent skin and another opaque one The stone cladding continues a treatment started in other refurbished areas in the 11-2001 8560 m² Main designer, AH Asociados Sancho - Madridejos ure Office INSALUD AH_asociados http://wwwmimoaeu/users/blue_elephant/guides/murcia/ 4
photo: José F García Martín photo: José F García Martín Centro Parraga Calle de la Madre Elisa Oliver Molina 30002 Murcia http://wwwcentroparragaes/ Centro Parraga occupies one of the pavilions of the former Artillery Quarter The intervention does not look for a perfect coupling between the original construction and the new programme, but rather to show the degrees of violence produced by the insertion of the new programme The project emphasizes the process of the architectonic intervention; its objective is to maximize the technical and programmatic versatility, instead of reaching a formal unity The intervention does not empty the building completely and preserves the façades as an urban decorative element It tries to keep the original function of the constructive elements as much as possible, ie the façade and former in-situ concrete ribbed floors retain their structural function The exterior image manifests the contrast between the deep and harsh texture of the former plasters, consolidated but not recovered, and the smooth new materials like galvanized steel, extra-clear glass and aluminium photo: José F García Martín 2005 2800 m² Main designer, Structural engineer Artist Associate architect Technical engineer Juan Antonio Santa-Cruz Alemán Alfredo Martínez Gomariz Angel Haro Oliver König Victor M Sánchez Sequero Murcia Cultural http://wwwmimoaeu/users/blue_elephant/guides/murcia/ 5