Interpretation Centre of Romanesque 展览中心 by Spaceworkers is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 金奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.
金建筑· 2020
Interpretation Centre of Romanesque 展览中心
by Spaceworkers
Client: Spaceworkers
A' Design Award 金奖 Winner in 建筑 Category
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The Design
About Interpretation Centre of Romanesque 展览中心
罗马式艺术阐释中心是一座位于葡萄牙洛萨达村的展览中心。建筑由七个高度各异的清水混凝土体量组成,每个体量构成一个独立的展览空间。一条覆以玻璃的中央大厅将各体量相互连接,并通向它们各自的入口。明亮的大厅与幽暗的展厅之间形成的对比引导着参观动线。每一处天花板都以现代手法重新诠释了罗马式建筑中的一种屋顶类型。带木纹肌理的混凝土外立面则令人联想起当地古老建筑所使用的石材与木材。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 金奖
Interpretation Centre of Romanesque 展览中心是 A' Design Award 金奖得主,这是授予一流、绝妙而杰出设计的极为崇高的认可。金奖得主是极具创新、极富远见且璀璨夺目的创作,反映出其设计师的天才、智慧与才干。预计Interpretation Centre of Romanesque 展览中心将成为一项备受赞誉、引领潮流、气势恢宏的发明,带来前所未有的价值。这件赢得 A' Design Award 金奖的设计是一个壮观而受人敬重的项目,极大地造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Interpretation Centre of Romanesque 展览中心激起强烈的渴望,唤起激情,鼓励创造力,令我们着迷。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The building is composed by seven apparent concrete volumes with different heights.Each one represents a distinct exhibition space.To explore the relation between them,it was created a central body covered by glass that procedes them entries.This central space explores the contrast bright/dark between it and the exhibition spaces.Therefore, the building tries to be contemporary without forgetting the important Romanesque past, creating an atmospheric symbiosis between this different times.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1580m2 - 57000 mm x 30000 mm x 15000 mm
- Tags
- Romanesque, concrete, architecture, Volumetric, interpretation, concrete volumes, Interpretation centre of the romanesque, Unity within diversity, Portuguese romanesque, Romanesque route,
- Production Technology
- In a clear allusion to the past constructions, which was built using the local materials like stone and wood, here we use the stone of our days, the concrete. The wood-texture on the concrete facades mark the straight connection that this kind of architecture established with the surrounding nature.
- Design Challenge
- One of the most challenging things of this design was the impact on the center of the village during its construction. The build is very auster, like all of the architecture of the romanesque period, and in the first instance this austerity was not being welcomed. Now with the building completed they full understand his meaning and the building is much loved for the whole population .
- Research
- The project seeks for a close relation between the old romanesque architecture and the architecture of nowadays. During the concept fase were study all of the Romanesque typology present in the region extracting of this research the most easily recognised elements of this architecture for transposing them into a contemporary building.
The final design seek for a contemporary approach of this Romanesque elements that allow people to immediately recognise that this new build as something to do with the old romanesque buildings.
Once inside, the scale, the light and the proportion of the spaces was also based on the old romanesque buildings, remind us the ancient Romanesque construction. - Inspiration
- Based on the concepts of Romanesque architecture in Portugal, the building aims to be a transitional element between the present and the distant past. In an austere way, the volumetric proposed contains the principals of unity within diversity, appearing under the form of several volumes with different heights and dimensions, demonstrating the diversity that Romanesque buildings have left us. Therefore, each volume ceilings reinterprets one of the roof types used in Romanesque architecture.
- Project Duration
- The building is located in the village of Lousada that belongs to Oporto district. Is is located in an area that is an expansion of this village ant it is marked by a strong relationship with an urban square called Praça das Pocinhas and withe the Senhor dos Aflitos Church - a strong reference in the town center. The project concept started in 2011 and and the construction was finished in 2018. It is open to the public since september 2018.
- Operation Flow
- The entire exhibition was designed to promote the interaction of the public, making them feel an integral part of it. The visitor is required to interact with the exhibition in order to obtain more information and deepen his knowledge of the different terms on which the exhibition focuses.
- Patents
- spaceworkers
- Team Members
- Principal Architect: Henrique Marques
Principal Architect: Rui Dinis
Architect: Rui Rodrigues
Architect: Rui Miguel
Architect: Sérgio Rocha - Image Credits
- Main Image #1 : Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Optional Image #1 : Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Optional Image #2 : Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Optional Image #3 : Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Optional Image #4 : Fernando Guerra FG+SG
Video Credits: Building Pictures
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