Federico García Lorca Centre Granada, New Andalusian Building Design, Plaza de la Romanilla Images
Federico García Lorca Centre, Granada Building
Contemporary Andalusia Architecture, Spain – design by MX-SI architectural studio
5 Jan 2017
Centro Federico Garcia Lorca Granada
Location: Centro Federico Garcia Lorca, Plaza Romanilla, Granada, Andalusia, south west Spain
Design: MX-SI architectural studio
Federico García Lorca Centre in Granada
The boundary between urban historic context and contemporary architecture spaces blends by extending the threshold on a dynamic concrete construction.

Photos © Pedro Pegenaute
The building establishes a natural, continuous relationship with Granada?s historic city by means of two main scales of intervention: – The immediate urban space of Plaza de la Romanilla blends into a single continuous space with the building?s main foyer. The boundary between urban and architectural space blurs, extending the threshold.
– At roof level, the building acquires a smaller, more domestic scale. The resulting texture, as in a jigsaw puzzle, completes the existing urban tissue where there used to be an empty plot.

The geometric proposal avoids sculpting a prominent architectural form. The force of the image is produced instead by the resulting void: the threshold, the passageway.

The building establishes a natural, continuous relationship with Granada?s historic city by means of different scales of intervention:
– The i...