State
Competition - 2nd Prize
Situation:
Cardinal Benavides Passage 10. Baeza. Jaén
Customer:
Department of Public Works and Transportation. Junta de Andalucía
Contractor:
Constructed area:
1940 m
2
Budget:
2,630,000€
Project - Work
Contest
2001
Architect
Architects
Ignacio Laguillo, Harald Schönegger | Laguillo-Schönegger Arquitectos
Architecture
Co-author Project
Project Co-authors
Associate Architect
Associate Architects
Collaborating Architect:
Local Architects
Technical Architecture:
Equipment:
Juan José Medero y Virginia Martínez
Collaborator
Collaborators
Structure:
Facilities:
Landscaping:
Furniture
Model
Photograph:
The building of the Casas Consistoriales of Baeza sits on a corner lot with an irregular floor plan, as part of a closed block made up of buildings between party walls. It has two façades facing the street; the main façade has a Renaissance design and a secondary façade was erected after the renovation of the 1940s. While the level of the first one is almost flat, the one on Gaspar Becerra Street has a difference in level of 2.70 meters, a circumstance that will mark to a great extent the decisions that shaped the rehabilitation proposal.
With a significant number of additions in a state of ruin and of little value, their demolition was proposed with the exception of its historic bay, lobby and staircase. The result confronted us with a series of median planes irregular in shape and development. Faced with these voids and limits, it was proposed to operate by superimposing a series of planes that, crossing the interior void, would oppress and dilate these limits, discovering inside a new continuous void that would give unity to the whole complex.
The general accesses to the interior of the building were centralized through Gaspar Becerra Street, reserving the main façade as a representative access. The natural entrance to the new building would be sequential. A succession of open spaces, thresholds and passages that reveal the interior void, where the section discovers the chained relationship between street–English courtyard–exhibition hall–lobby–patio, concentrating all the administrative and public service activities of the building. The strong axis existing in the previous scheme around the access and main staircase, would thus give way to a more fluid, accessible and permeable space.







