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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

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Budget:

2,630,000€

Project - Work

Contest

2001

Architect

Architects

Ignacio Laguillo, Harald Schönegger | Laguillo-Schönegger Arquitectos

Architecture

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Associate Architect

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Collaborating Architect:

Local Architects

Technical Architecture:

Equipment:

Juan José Medero y Virginia Martínez

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Model

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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.

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Refurbishment and Extension of the City Hall