Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena

We are transported to the Mediterranean coast, Aguilas a seaside city surrounded by mountains. Looking from the sea, we can see the difference in scale between the new building Auditorium and Congress Palace, with large windows, and the other residential buildings.

Memory of project

The project is a natural response to the particular stimulus, offered by the location. On one hand the need to respect the urban tissue that growths inside, on the other, the one’s to preserve the expressive hue of the natural landscape.

It is through from this contrast, that we define and articulate tensions which allows the project to organize itself while a coherent response to the constraints of place. The building is a dialectic reflection, simple but at the same time strong, between the urban artificiality and the organic naturalness.

Thus, the building results in a large mass, shaped in function of the tensions that proceeds from the different character of the spaces surround it. Tangent to the town, the facades are clean, orderly and paused, while tangent to the sea, the facades translate the surrounding space and the configuration offered by the landscape and geography, through large and concave surfaces, that provides a direct and intensive relation with the surrounding natural environment.

Text.- Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

CREDITS.-

Main architect.- Alberto Fernandez Veiga and Fabrizio Barozzi.
Team collaborators.- Luca Colomban, Paulo Lopes, Tanja Oppowa, Antonio Pinto, Agnieszka Samsel, Antonis Vourexakis, Brendan Lynch.
Client.- Ayuntamiento de Aguilas.
Date.- 01.06.2004/22.03.2011 (competition), 01.08.2005/01.08.2006 (execution), 21.02.2008/22.03.2011 (work).
Surface.- 6.410 m².
Site.- Paseo de las Delicias, 30880 Aguilas, Spain.
Budget.- 16.625.924,97 euros PEM, 22.950.426,84 euros Total. 1430,86 euros/m².

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Interior view. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga. Photograph by Julien Lanoo.

Interior view. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio.

Site plan. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

Ground floor. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

First floor. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

Second floor. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

Third floor. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

Elevation. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

Section AA. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

Section BB. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

Section CC. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

Section DD. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

Sketch. Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga.

Vista interior. Auditorio y Palacio de Congresos Infanta Doña Elena por Estudio Barozzi Veiga. Fotografía por Julien Lanoo.

Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga. Photograph by Julien Lanoo.

Auditorio y Palacio de Congresos Infanta Doña Elena por Estudio Barozzi Veiga. Fotografía por Julien Lanoo.

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Fabrizio Barozzi, Alberto Veiga. BAROZZI VEIGA

Fabrizio Barozzi born in Rovereto (Italy) in 1976. He currently lives and works in Barcelona.He graduated as an architect in 2003 by the University Institute of Architecture in Venezia. He completed his training in 1999 at the School of Architecture of Seville in 2001 while living in Paris.

He began his training partner in 2003 working as the office of William Vázquez Consuegra and later in 2004 is associated with Alberto Veiga and establish their own professional studio.

He has been Professor of Projects at International University of Catalonia in Barcelona from 2007 to 2009 and since 2009 is Associate Professor of Projects at the University of Girona.

Alberto Veiga (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), was born in 1973 and studied architecture at the School of Architecture of Navarre. After graduating, he worked as an assistant and planner in Patxi Mangado practices in 1997-2001. From 2001-03, he worked as a designer of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, where he worked on a number of projects awarded. In 2004 he settled in EBV Architects with Fabrizio Barozzi. Projects currently teaches 3rd year at UIC.

EBV Architects is an architectural firm located in Barcelona and founded by Fabrizio Barozzi (Trento, Italy, 1976) and Alberto Veiga (Santiago, Spain, 1973) devoted to architecture, urbanism and interior design. The experience accumulated over the years in collaboration with renowned architects has allowed prestige EBV start a professional career where independent research plays a major role. The study EBV and has been awarded with many awards nationally and internationally.