State
Built
Situation:
c/ General Armero 51. Fuentes de Andalucía. Seville
Customer:
Ministry of Development, Territorial Articulation and Housing. Junta de Andalucía and City Council of Fuentes de Andalucía. Seville
Contractor:
Alberto Domínguez Blanco — Restoration of Monuments S.A.
Constructed area:
1,029 m
2
Budget:
1,105,000€
Project - Work
2017—2022
Contest
Architect
Architects
Ignacio Laguillo | Laguillo Architecture
Architecture
Co-author Project
Project Co-authors
Associate Architect
Associate Architects
Collaborating Architect:
Local Architects
Technical Architecture:
Rosalino Daza, Roberto Alés
Equipment:
Harald Schönegger, José Carlos Oliva, Ignacio Olivares, Álvaro Valverde and Jorge Rodríguez
Collaborator
Collaborators
Structure:
Enrique Cabrera - English
Facilities:
Miguel Sibón Roldán
Landscaping:
Jaime Garcia
Furniture
Rosario Moreno-Torres
Model
General Metalworking
Photograph:
Fernando Alda
Fernando Alda
The town of Fuentes is located in the countryside of Seville in the valley of the Guadalquivir. To its cultural and monumental richness, the result of settlements of all times, joins the landscape and its historical relationship with agriculture. In its old Main Street is its most representative public space, the Plaza de España, which housed among others the primitive Town Hall. In the eighteenth century and after its ruin in the earthquake of Lisbon, a new neoclassical Consistory was built according to the project of the Madrid architect Ventura Rodríguez, modifying a first initial proposal of more baroque taste of the fontaniegos alarifes Alonso Ruiz Florinda and Andrés de Carmona.
The intervention solves the new organization of the Consistory by joining the historic building of the eighteenth century and the most recent extension of the municipal services building with a new volume that frames the new public access by adjusting the agreements between its different levels and the street.
The works on the historic building designed by Ventura Rodríguez seek to recover the sober and austere character of the constructive and spatial solutions of the time of its construction, resolving the constructive pathologies that threatened its habitability. The old open access to the square is reserved for public events, diverting the new main access to the new building.
This new building, open to a new interior space, is conceived as a connecting element between the two existing buildings so that the new complex is fully integrated. The ground floor, of a purely public nature, opens onto this free space that functions as an extension of the street itself. Meanwhile, the upper level functions as an administrative space that connects at each end with the other uses of the building. The public visit to the new roofs connects with the tradition of towers and viewpoints of the municipality that rise to enjoy the stately architecture of the environment or the views of the surrounding landscape.
The exterior materiality of the entire complex is entrusted to natural lime mortar coatings that incorporate vegetable seeds that evoke the municipality's historical relationship with agriculture. Natural stones, woods and noble metals give the whole complex the noble and public character required by this historic institution.
























