Rehabilitation of Military Navy Hospital-Auditorium- Univ. Polytechnic of Cartagena

Fecha
2002
Situación
Hospital Square . Cartagena
Promotor
Technical University of Cartagena. UPCT
Presupuesto
21.823.630 €
Superficie construida
38.156 m2
Architects
Martín Lejarraga / Francisco Ruiz-Gijón
Technical Architects
Rafael Checa / Antonio Pérez / Tomás Sánchez / Antonio Morata
Builder
Construcciones Villegas
Consultants
Lebrusant Ingeniería
Photographer
Juan de la Cruz Megías
Dome Paintings
Ángel Mateo Chárris

Cartagena (1995-02)

This Project has to act in a historical building, that had in the past another use. The question is how to insert the new program if the old use is very different from the new one. (hospital vs. university). These architectonic actions on existing structures form part of the common heritage of all cultures.

On the other hand, we share the Alison and Peter Smithson’s ideas about university spaces. They thought that a University has to be brave, experimental. Something that university buildings should also express.

We begin from a sensitive attitude towards the existing building, and we analyze deeply its conditions (inner and outer). Architecture should create the cultural definition of the constructed building.

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The final intention is to recover the building and to give it back to the city, because there is a real social demand, and doing it in al real and proper way.

The rehabilitation tries to reproduce the main content, protecting it, adding, copying… Trying to get a real modernity but with historical authenticity.

The project raises the maximum recovery of the original characteristics of the building and all the elements that define them:

– the building preserves the main structure and its original spatial conditions.
– we take advantage of the courtyards, using the basement to allocate the classrooms.
– we use the floor under the wooden structure roof.

The original windows in the facade are recuperated in its geometry and position, so the original image is returned showing to Cartagena Port in its South façade.

The final result is a logic and compact building, ensuring the correct position of the whole program in the original Military Navy Hospital.

Publicaciones

2001
XI Catalogue Architecture Awards 'Región de Murcia'
Catálogos Arquitectura nº 5. COAMU
Arquitectura COAM nº 320 – Madrid
2000
AV España 2000. Yearbook
ON design No. 220
Catálogos Arquitectura nº 10. COAMU
Casabella nº 724 – Italy

Premios

2001
XI Architecture Awards 'Región de Murcia' > Rehabilitation