You can see models of this exceptional project, photographs and videos of the building and contents. A recommended visit since the opening of this afternoon. METALOCUS readers are invited to the inauguration.
"At the heart of all architectural project, is the recognized of limit as a concept that determines the spatial and formal settings. That the realization of this limit is manifested in a sharp or diffuse, with hardness or softness, expressing lightness or weight, it is a decision without importance, since it reflects itself taking a stance against the multiple discontinuities facing contemporary cities. In a few cases, these discontinuities are juxtaposed so clearly and yet harmonious as in the meeting area between Urgull Mount and the Downtown of San Sebastian: between nature and city, and the horizontal plane and topographic elevation, land and sea, historic buildings and existing buildings. Perhaps this is why the rehabilitation project and expansion of San Telmo Museum, located at the confluence of nature and the urban landscape, require a conscious response of the boundary condition of the site itself, represented by the image of a long wall broken as a manifestation of nature / artifice, beating in the project.
A facade or lattice, developed from a combinatorial game of aluminum castings specifically for this occasion, is thus transformed into an unusual intervention that recognizes the role of architecture in relation to public art. The new extension of the San Telmo Museum change its appearance over the course of the seasons, joining in the vegetation of Mount Urgull or expressing their autonomy in a long, unfinished wall broken: unexpected metaphor of vague boundary where the architecture and the city are with the landscape."
Venue.- Galería Raquel Ponce. C/ Alameda, 5. MADRID.
Date.- 19-28/05/2011
