Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena in Águilas/Spain by Estudio Barozzi Veiga

Auditorium Aguilas // Earth view // photo Julien Lanoo // click image to enlarge

The project is a natural response to the particular stimulus, offered by the location. On one hand the need to respect the urban tissue that growths inside, on the other, the one’s to preserve the expressive hue of the natural landscape.
It is through from this contrast, that we define and articulate tensions which allows the project to organize itself while a coherent response to the constraints of place. The building is a dialectic reflection, simple but at the same time strong, between the urban artificiality and the organic naturalness.
Thus, the building results in a large mass, shaped in function of the tensions that proceeds from the different character of the spaces surround it. Tangent to the town, the facades are clean, orderly and paused, while tangent to the sea, the facades translate the surrounding space and the configuration offered by the landscape and geography, through large and concave surfaces, that provides a direct and intensive relation with the surrounding natural environment.

View from the promenade // Photo by Julien Lanoo // click image to enlarge

View from the beach- South facade // Photo by Julien Lanoo // click image to enlarge

Entrance- West facade // photo by Julien Lanoo // click image to enlarge

Main vestibule // photo by Julien Lanoo // click image to enlarge

Balconies access // photo by Julien Lanoo // click image to enlarge

Curve detail // photo by Julien Lanoo // click image to enlarge

Concert hall // photo by Julien Lanoo // click image to enlarge

Night view from the beach // photo by Julien Lanoo // click image to enlarge

Night view- insertion in the bay // photo by Julien Lanoo // click image to enlarge

Project Details:
Location: Águilas, Spain
Type: Cultural - Public
Architects: Estudio Barozzi Veiga - www.barozziveiga.com
Investor: City of Águilas
Use Area: 10 200m2
Construction: 2008 – 2011
Team: Alberto Fernandez Veiga, Fabrizio Barozzi, Luca Colomban, Paulo Lopes, Tanja Oppowa, Antonio Pinto, Agnieszka Samsel, Antonis Vourexakis
Photos: Julien Lanoo