In terms of materials, are simple and honest, nearly pristine materials, with transparent materials, white or translucent, to which is attached a simple structure, generating curves roofs, with notorious Mediterranean culture references. A hyper-realistic architecture, born of necessity and cult knowledge of the territory. Congratulations!
This proposal, of Alday Jover Architects, aims at the implementation of the Agriculture Interpretation Centre in the Aranzadi Park, integrating its information and education status of horticultural and agricultural topics. Starting from the existing building on the plot, the Gurbindo House, to raise an extension that extends in a single floor, slightly elevated the breeding ground for safekeeping of flooding and to get some perspective from the building and its terraces crops.
Summary project
Aranzadi meander is a strongly anthropic space. Beetwen fields appear different informal buildings, aimed at private housing in relation with adjacent productive land. This is the case of Gurbindo House, the building for the construction of the Agriculture Interpretation Centre, by its location on the perimeter of orchards and their direct contact with them.
This equipment is not simply a program that supports the objectives of the Meander Park Aranzadi but reinforces and intensifies. The orchard area that retains Park project has a much higher viability with the appearance of equipment directly related, with the objectives of disseminating general farming and horticulture in particular, the training in matters related, and management possibilities this could bring.
This integration concept is reinforced by an absolute desire to integrate architecture and landscape, looking for a building that:
- Relates to existing buildings and that is to be reused.
- Is inserted between crops as the greenhouses and tunnels.
- The visual relationship with them in terms of geometry, dimensions and materials Gurbindo house and its surroundings, which is located the Agriculture.
Interpretation Centre and its attached outdoor spaces, has three preexisting at different levels:
- The Gurbindo house, reference and reason for implementing the Center.
- The ruined house to the west, in the center of the fringe market gardens.
- The stone walls surrounding the west gardens of the Gurbindo house in the south (towards Vuelta de Aranzadi), east (from the back almost to the river) and west (a section that starts from the Back to mid-border).
Text by: I. Alday - M. Jover
CREDITS.-
Main architect.- Iñaki Alday y Margarita Jover.
Team collaborators.- Jesús Arcos (Architect project management); Andreu Meixide, Catalina Salvà (Project Leaders architects); Hector Ortín, Raquel Villa, (assistant architects); Francisco Mesonero (landscaper collaborator); Júlia Salvia (architecture student); Cecilia Vinyolas (documentation).- Roser Vives (agronomy engineer); Benedicto Gestió de Projectes (budget/execution).- David Garcia, BIS arquitectes - FSestructuras (structures); Maurici Ginés, Artec3 (lighting design)).- Ernesto Calvo, Lluís Maestu, PyP – Carlos Ros Estudioros (installations).- David Solans (Environmental Engineering studio).
Promoter.- Town Hall of Pamplona.
Date.- 2012 (date of execution), 2010 (date of project).
Projec.- Interpretation Centre of Agriculture and Livestock.
Surface.- 11.850 m².
Budget.- 1.780.612,62 € (Material execution budget), 2.065.510,64 € (Contracted execution budget).
Site.- Parque del meandro de Aranzadi, Pamplona. Spain.
