Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Rooms and surfaces are generated from a complex web of hexagons at this contemporary arts centre in Córdoba, Spain, by Madrid office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (photography is by Roland Halbe).

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Inspired by the patterns of traditional Islamic architecture, Nieto Sobejano planned the building as a non-linear sequence of connecting rooms that open out to one another in a variety of configurations.

“We have always been admirers of the hidden geometric laws through which those artists, artisans and master builders of a remote Islamic past were capable of creating a multiple and isotropic space within the mosque,” explain the architects. “We conceived the project as starting with a system, a law generated by a repeating geometric pattern, originating in a hexagonal shape.”

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

The six-sided rooms create a meandering trail through the building and each room can be used as either an exhibition area or as a space for art production. Every wall and surface is concrete, intended to evoke the atmosphere of a factory or warehouse.

“Walls and slabs of concrete and continuous concrete floors establish a spatial area capable of being transformed individually using different forms of intervention,” the architects add.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Hexagonal funnels stretch down from the roof to channel natural light into concentrated spaces. Meanwhile, tiny perforations bring narrow beams of light through the facade.

From the exterior, these perforations make up another pattern of hexagons that face out towards the adjacent Guadalquivir River. At night, LED lights illuminate these shapes to present a glowing pattern across the water.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

As well as exhibition space, the building also contains artists’ workshops, laboratories and an auditorium for theatrical performances, films screenings and lectures.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

The Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba was completed earlier this year, but while it was still under construction a Spanish graphics studio filmed a theatrical dance performance inside. Watch the movie below, or see a larger version in our earlier story.

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has become a specialist in museum and gallery design in recent years. Others to complete include the subterranean Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo and the perforated aluminium extension to the San Telmo Museum. See more architecture by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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See more photography by Roland Halbe on Dezeen, or on the photographer’s website.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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Here’s a project description from Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos:


Architecture nourishes itself constantly from images hidden in our memory, ideas which become sharp and clear and unexpectedly mark the beginning of a project. Perhaps this is why the echo of the Hispano-Islamic culture which is still latent in Cordoba has subconsciously signified more than a footnote in our proposal. In the face of the homogeneity which our global civilisation imposes in all aspects of life, the Centre of Contemporary Art aspires to interpret a different western culture, going beyond the cliché of this expression used so frequently.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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Distrusting the supposed efficacy and flexibility of a neutral and universal container commonly used nowadays, let us image a building closely linked to a place and to a far memory, where every space is shaped individually, to a time which can transform itself and expand in sequences with different dimensions, uses and spatial qualities.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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We have always been admirers of the hidden geometric laws through which those artists, artisans and master builders of a remote Islamic past were capable of creating a multiple and isotropic space within the Mosque, a building facetted with vaults and muqarna windows, permutations of ornamental motifs with lattice windows, paving and ataurique decorations, or the rules and narrative rhythms implicit in the poems and tales of Islamic tradition.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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Like those literary structures which include a story within another story, within yet another… – a story without an end – we conceived the project as starting with a system, a law generated by a repeating geometric pattern, originating in a hexagonal shape, which in turn contains three different types of rooms, with 150 m², 90 m², and 60 m². Like a combinatorial game, the permutations of these three areas generate sequences of different spaces which possibly can come to create a single exhibition area.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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The artists’ workshops on the ground floor and the laboratories on the upper floor are located adjacent to the exhibition halls, to the point where there is no strict difference between them: artistic works can be exhibited in the workshops while the exhibition halls can also be used as areas for artistic production. The assembly room – the black box – is designed as a stage area suitable for theatrical productions, conferences, film screenings, or even for audiovisual exhibitions.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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The Centre of Contemporary Art is not a centralised organism: its centre moves from one area to another, it is everywhere. It is designed as a sequence of rooms linked to a public walkway, where the different functions of the building come together. Conceived as a crossroads and meeting place, it is a communal area for exhibitions and exchange of ideas, to view an installation, see exhibitions, visit the café, use the mediateque, wait for the start of a show in the black box, or perhaps gaze at the Guadalquivir river.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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The materials will contribute to suggest the character of an art factory which pervades the project. In the interior, walls and slabs of concrete and continuous concrete floors establish a spatial area capable of being transformed individually using different forms of intervention. A network of electrical, digital, audio and lighting infrastructure creates the possibility of multiple views and connections everywhere.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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Outside, the building aspires to express itself through one material: GRC prefabricated panels that at the same time clad opaque and perforated façades, or make up the flat and sloping roofs of the halls. The industrialised concept of the system as well as the conditions of impermeability, insulation and lightness of the material, contribute to guarantee the precision and rationality of its execution but also plays a part in the combinatory concept which governs the whole project.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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The facade onto the river, a true mask that protagonizes the exterior facade of the building, is conceived as a screen perforated by several polygonal openings with LED-type monochromatic maps behind them. With an appropriate computer program, video signals will generate images and texts that will be reflected on the river’s surface and enable installations specifically conceived for the place. During the day, natural light will filter through the perforations and penetrate the interior covered walkway.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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In the Centre for Contemporary Art, artists, visitors, experts, researchers and the public, will meet as in a contemporary zouk, without an obvious spatial hierarchy. It will be a centre for creative artistic processes which will link closely the architectural space with the public: an open laboratory where architecture attempts to provoke new modes of expression.

Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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Some of the most recent artistic proposals linked to the most recent technologies appear to move away from materiality and submerge themselves in a virtuality disconnected from a concrete place, but perhaps through it, disagreeing with this interpretation – which has become a commonplace – we are convinced that the building itself, the Guadalquivir river, the present and the past of Cordoba, will not simply be a casual circumstance but – as it has been for us as well – will be the start of a dialogue, agreement, or perhaps rejection. For are these not also emotions which underlie the search for all artistic expression?

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Première by Taller de Casqueria

Dezeen Screen: this movie filmed by Spanish graphics studio Taller de Casqueria shows a theatrical dance performance taking place inside the Espacio Andaluz de Creación Contemporánea, a contemporary arts centre that is under construction in Córdoba by architects Nieto Sobejano. Watch the movie »

Joanneum Museum extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and eep architekten

Joanneum Museum extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and eep architekten

Cavernous holes in the courtyard of three museum buildings in Graz, Austria, lead underground into a new, shared entrance by Spanish architects Nieto Sobejano and local firm eep architekten (photographs by Roland Halbe).

Joanneum Museum extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and eep architekten

The extension adds a conference hall, reading areas and an archive to the Joanneum Museum complex, which comprises a regional library, an art gallery and a natural history museum.

Joanneum Museum extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and eep architekten

Glass surrounds the conical openings and each one tunnels down through one or two storeys to bring diffused natural light into the underground rooms.

Joanneum Museum extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and eep architekten

Visitors enter the building via an outdoor elevator into the largest cone.

Joanneum Museum extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and eep architekten

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos have completed a few museums this year – see them all here, including another one that tunnels underground.

Here’s some further explanation from Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos:


Joanneum Museum extension and refurbishment
International Competition 1st Prize 2006

Surface and Depth

The ground surface, the horizontal platform upon which most of our movements in the city occur, is very rarely the generating argument or the spatial support of a project. Perhaps as a result of that yearn for an identity that every new intervention seems to demand, architecture has tended to express itself throughout history by means of objects, volumes that have often established a difficult relationship with the scale of the urban environment in which they were inserted. In contrast, the extension of the Joanneum Museum emerged from the intention of acting within the strict limits of the horizontal plane of the city, offering a new public space based on an architectural proposal that is paradoxically simple in its depth and complex in its surface.

Joanneum Museum extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and eep architekten

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The Joanneumsviertel of Graz is formed of three buildings of different periods and uses that up to now gave their back to one another and towards a residual rear courtyard: the Museum of Natural History – from the 18th century –, the Regional Library of Styria and New Gallery of Contemporary Art, the latter built at the end of the 19th century. As organisms belonging to the same institution, the project set out the need to endow the complex with a common access, welcoming spaces, conference hall, reading areas and services, aside from a lower level for archives and storage. Instead of falling into the temptation of developing an iconic intervention, as has often happened in recent extensions of existing museums, the project meant, however, a unique opportunity to carry out an at once urban and architectural transformation.

Joanneum Museum extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and eep architekten

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If the historic center of Graz is known for its expressive roofscape, our proposal develops entirely below ground: we simply define a new pavement that as a large carpet takes up the whole exterior space between buildings and conceals below ground the spaces that house the required program. This decision allows acknowledging the value of the existing historical constructions – carrying out a refurbishment that is respectful towards their architectural characteristics – which acts only punctually in some interior areas without affecting the original exterior image and volume. The horizontal continuous surface of the new square is marked by a combinatorial series of circular patios that bring natural light into the underground spaces and house the entrance, the lobby and shared areas of museums and library, a gathering place from which to reach each one of them.

Joanneum Museum extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and eep architekten

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The geometric abstraction implicit in every architectural work appears in the proposal with the boldness of a contemporary installation in the public space, transformed into an apparently random sequence of conical intersections derived from a single, virtual three-dimensional figure. Curved glass surfaces with a continuous silkscreen print filter light towards the interior and, inversely, illuminate the square with artificial light at night. A cultural institution like the Joanneum Museum, on which the Kunsthaus Graz is dependent, thus expresses the changing relationship between art and city.

Joanneum Museum extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and eep architekten

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The square that centralizes the access to the museums is an unusual intervention in the urban space: a bet on the common action between plastic arts and architecture that will incorporate specific installations in collaboration with contemporary artists. The new extension goes almost unnoticed, concealed beneath the pavement that connects the historical buildings, as a materialization of a perforated horizon that expresses, and not only literally, that the depth of an architectural work can reside, unexpectedly, on its surface.

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Location: Graz (Austria)
Client: Government of Steiermark (Austria)
Architects: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, eep architekten

Project: Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano, Gerhard Eder
Collaborators: Dirk Landt, Christian Egger,Bernd Priesching, Daniel Schilp, Michele Görhardt, Udo Brunner, Anja Stachelscheid, Sebastián Sasse, Nik Wenzke, Ana-Maria Osorio, Michael Fenske
Structure: zt-büro dipl.-ing. Petschnigg
Mechanical Engineers: Pechmann GmbH, Ingenieurbüro f. Haustechnik
Models: Juan de Dios Hernández – Jesús Rey
Project: 2007-2008
Construction: 2009-2011

Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos have completed an underground museum in Spain with weathered steel towers and cylinders that emerge above a grass lawn (photographs by Roland Halbe and Fernando Alda).

Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Top and above: photography by Roland Halbe

The Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo exhibits objects, images and films that illustrate the historic Roman city and province.

Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Above: photography by Fernando Alda

Visitors enter the building via a spiralling staircase that descends into a submerged circular courtyard.

Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Above: photography by Fernando Alda

Three cylindrical towers provide enclosed rooms for audio-visual installations and are surrounded by the underground exhibition galleries.

Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Above: photography by Fernando Alda

Parking for cars and buses is also provided underneath the landscape.

Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Above: photography by Roland Halbe

Weathered steel has featured in a few recent Dezeen stories – see our earlier stories about a canopy of flattened parasols and a museum pierced by bullet-sized holes.

Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Above: photography by Roland Halbe

This is the third museum by Spanish architects Nieto Sobejano featured on Dezeen this summer, following one with a perforated aluminium skin and another in a ruined castlesee all our stories about Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos here.

Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Above: photography by Roland Halbe

Fernando Alda shows more photographs of this project on his website.

Here is some more text from the architects:


Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo
1st Prize Competition 2007

The building site, which until not long ago housed industrial structures- is located in a position relatively displaced from the historic centre of Lugo. However, it will soon become a point of arrival for visitors to the city.

Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

It may well seem awkward to assimilate architecture into landscape, but this is one of the cases in which we would like to think that the relationship between the two is more than a set phrase. We propose a museum-park or a park-museum, which will be linked to the sequence of green areas in the city, hiding the parking areas underground and emerging in a constellation of cylindrical lanterns scattered throughout a continuous green field.

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As it happens every time an architectural idea is intended to be built –which very frequently emerges from intuition-, it is the analysis of the program and its location that causes the specific proposal to make sense. We will divide the program into two large, connected areas: the parking and the visitor centre. The strong difference in height between the East and West ends of the building site suggests the possibility of taking +444m as an average reference level, in such a way that the garage is developed nearly at street level, thus remaining half-buried.

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The Visitor Centre is essentially organised on a single floor illuminated through large circular courtyards, which allow natural light to penetrate and permit independent, controlled use. From the main courtyard, the most peculiar and tallest exhibition rooms will emerge -as contemporary cylindrical bastions-, which will become the image of the new building which is projected towards the exterior.

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The exhibiting area has been conceived from two types of spaces: one which is neutral, flexible, suitable for the exhibition of panels, and will contain interactive modules or glass cabinets with original pieces; the other is defined by three cylindrical bastions, which are peculiar spaces due to their shape and dimension, suitable for audiovisual installations and projections. Both the Museum and the Visitor Centre are articulated in a sequence of interior and exterior spaces with multiple itineraries in which the landscape and History will be able to convey the intimate link that unites them.

Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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Awareness towards environmental issues is a consequence of the project’s conception itself. The strong impact that a large amount of vehicles -cars and buses- would have produced on the surface is avoided by hiding the parking area under the undulating cover of vegetation. Likewise, the spaces destined for visitors and the museum occupy a half-buried floor under the same green foliage, which favours thermal inertia, thus reducing the need for energy contribution.

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The exhibition towers emerging from the garden will be externally re-covered by a light, metallic skin, which will accommodate the incorporation of solar panels and night-time lighting in its design, by way of a contemporary interpretation of the Roman wall’s bastions.

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The new Museum will entail the experience of a walk through a vegetative, metallic landscape, a luminous field whose night-time glow will seem to emerge from within the earth. The Lugo Museum will evoke images of fields and caves, walls and fortified towers –metaphors of a landscape and a culture that the inhabitants of Lugo carry within their own memory.

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Location: Avda. Infanta Elena. Lugo. Spain
Client: Ayuntamiento de Lugo
Architects: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.P. – Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano

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Project Architect: Alexandra Sobral
Proyect Coordination: Vanesa Manrique
Collaborators: Borja Ruiz-Apilánez, Juan Carlos Redondo, Bart de Beer, Rocío Domínguez
Site Supervision: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.P. – Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano
Miguel Mesas Izquierdo, Technical Architect
Structure: NB 35 S.L.
Mechanical Engineer: 3i Ingeniería Industrial, S.L.
Models: Juan de Dios Hernández – Jesús Rey, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.P.
Project: 2007
Construction: 2008-2011
Construction Company: U.T.E. Aldesa – Cuadernas

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See also:

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Riverside Museum
by Zaha Hadid
Roku Museum by Hiroshi
Nakamura & NAP
Celtic Museum by
Kada Wittfeld Architektur

San Telmo Museum Extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

Moss is expected to grow on the perforated aluminium skin of this museum extension in San Sebastián by Spanish studio Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

With its rear wall pushed into the edge of the hillside, the new two-storey block stretches out at a right-angle to the San Telmo Museum.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

A staircase ascends across the block, allowing vistors to climb over the roof and onto the landscape.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

The museum extension contains galleries for temporary exhibitions as well as an auditorium, library, teaching areas, cloakroom, shop and cafeteria.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

See also: our story from yesterday on the Moritzburg Museum Extension in Germany by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

Photography is by Fernando Alda. See more images of this project onAlda’s website.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

This information is from the architects:


San Telmo Museum Extension
Competition 1st Prize 2005

The Museum of San Telmo, in its present condition, represents the result of a long process of successive modifications which has partially altered its physical and functional character over the years.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

Its location on the fringe where the urban structure meets the topography of Monte Urgull is a reflection, on the other hand, of an urban problem very characteristic of San Sebastian: the solution of a division never completely solved between natural and artificial landscape.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

How to approach a contemporary extension of San Telmo in response to new requirements for space and stringent landscaping conditions, while expressing its connection to the location with the passing of time?

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

The direct and radical gesture which defines out proposal implies paradoxically its practical dissolution in the landscape of Monte Urgull.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

We will limit ourselves to building a new green wall, deep and light, which is defined by the existing topography, and which hides in its interior two pavilions which will house the new programme.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

This decision heighten the appreciation both of the historical buildings as well as the new entrance to the museum, which offers access to the old building – which will incorporate the permanent exhibitions – as well as to the new pavilion for temporary exhibitions.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

The main vestibule will therefore constitute a natural link with the new areas for cloakrooms, shop, auditorium, mediatheque, didactic hall and cafeteria which complete the necessary areas in a museum with these characteristics.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

A “green wall”: on certain occasions the metaphor associated with an architectural idea gives a sense to each and every aspect of the project.

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

Hence the slight changes of direction of the wall are sufficient to provide a natural solution to pedestrian access to Monte Urgull, to configure an open air exhibition space, or to house a café-terrace open to the landscape and to the town.

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Rather an expression of the relation natural/artificial which runs throughout our proposal, the new building/screen will be defined by a perforated metal skin enveloped in moss, lichen and other plant species which finally will come to surround the whole building.

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In collaboration with the artists Leopoldo Ferrán and Agustina Otero starting with a combinatorial game of cast-aluminium pieces expressly conceived for this occasion, this will be an unusual intervention in a public area which represents a common field of action between plastic arts and architecture.

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The new extension of the San Telmo Museum will modify its appearance with the passing of the seasons: it will fade on occasions and blend with the vegetation on the hill, and will reappear on other occasions evoking a long unfinished wall: an unexpected metaphor – perhaps – of the difficult relation which architecture establishes with the pass of time.

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Location: Plaza de Zuloaga, San Sebastián
Client: San Sebastián City Council
Architects: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.P. – Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano

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Project Architect: Miguel Ubarrechena
Collaborators: Stephen Belton, Juan Carlos Redondo, Pedro Guedes, Joachim Kraft, Alexandra Sobral

San Telmo Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

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Site Supervision: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.P. – Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano, Miguel Mesas Izquierdo, Technical Architect
Facade Artistic Intervention: Leopoldo Ferrán, Agustina Otero

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Structure: NB 35 S.L.
Mechanical Engineer: R. Úrculo Ingenieros Consultores, S.A.
Fire Prevention Systems: 3i Ingeniería Industrial
Models: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos S.L.P. – Juan de Dios Hernández, Jesús Rey

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Project: 2006
Construction: 2007-2011
Construction Company: U.T.E. San Telmo. Amenabar / Moyua

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See also:

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Moritzburg Museum Extension by Nieto Sobejano ArquitectosNelson-Atkins Museum of Art
by Steven Holl
Akron Art Museum
by Coop Himmelb(l)au

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us these images of an extension to a museum inside a ruined castle in Halle, Germany, by Spanish studio Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

The architects inserted the extension above the 15th century stonework of the Moritzburg Museum, providing a roof to the previously open-air top floor.

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

A new floor suspended from the centre of this roof creates an additional exhibition area without bringing any columns into the main gallery.

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

The extension also includes the addition of a trapezium-shaped metal entrance.

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

More architecture photographed by Roland Halbe on Dezeen »
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The following information is from the architects:


Moritzburg Museum Extension
Competition 1st Prize 2004

The ancient castle of Moritzburg in the city of Halle is a very valuable example of Gothic military architecture, typical of Germany at the end of the 15th century. Its turbulent history has inevitably been reflected in the many alternations it has undergone over the years. But despite these, the building still keeps the original structure of its main architectural features: the surrounding wall, three of the four round towers at the corners and the central courtyard.

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

The partial destruction of the north and west wings in the 17th century during the Thirty Years War left the castle with the image of a romantic ruin which it has kept over the centuries to today. Except for a stillborn project by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1828, until now no integral work has been planned to alter and enlarge the ancient ruin for the art museum housed there since 1904.

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

A very notable collection of modern art – mainly of German Expressionism – that includes works painted by Lyonel Feininger in the city of Halle has now been enlarged with the Gerlinger donation, one of the most valuable private collections of the Die Brücke Expressionist group.

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

Our proposal for enlargement is based on a single and clear architectural idea. It involves a new roof, conceived as a large folded platform, which rises and breaks to allow natural light to enter, and from which the new exhibition areas hang.

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The result of this operation is to free completely the floor of the ancient ruin, providing a unique space that allows a range of exhibition possibilities. This design is complemented with the building of two new vertical communication cores.

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The first is located in the north wing to connect the levels which must be inter-communicated. The second is a new, contemporary tower, 25 metres high, in the place once occupied by the bastion, which provides access to the new exhibition areas with their distant views over the city.

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The angular geometry of the new scenery of roofs and metal tower contrasts with castle’s existing irregular shape and high roof. In spirit with the uneasy and expressive forms painted by Feininger, on display in the museum, the new fragments continue the process of changes that feature in the history of the Moritzburg Castle over time.

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Location: Halle, Saale (Germany)
Client: Stiftung Moritzburg. State of Sachsen – Anhalt
Architects: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, S.L.P. – Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

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Project Architect : Sebastian Sasse
Competition Collaborators: Vanesa Manrique, Nina Nolting, Olaf Syrbe, Miguel Ubarrechena
Project Collaborators: Udo Brunner, Nina Nolting, Dirk Landt, Susann Euen, Siverin Arndt
Site Supervision: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos S.L.P. – Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano, Sebastian Sasse, Johannes Stumpf, Karl Heinz Bosse
Structure: GSE, Jorg Enseleit
I M.E.P. Engineers: Rentschler y Riedesser, Jürgen Trautwein
Models: Juan de Dios Hernández-Jesús Rey

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

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Project: 2005-2008
Construcción: 2006 – 2008
Roof Construction Company: Dornhöfer GmbH

Moritzburg Museum Extension by Niento Sobejano Arquitectos

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Castelo Novo
by Comoco Architects
Templo de Diana by José
María Sánchez García
City Walls of Logroño by
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