Detail of the project ed. 2016

exten­­sion-of-the-monastery-of-st-peter-regal­a­­do / Resetland

Design­er  Eduar­do Del­ga­do Orusco
Loca­tion  La Aguil­era, Bur­gos (Spain)
Design Team  

Eduar­do Del­ga­do Orus­co, Juan Enrique Álvarez, Alber­to Comas, Miguel Quirós Este­ban, Javier Rincón Sánchez, Ele­na Múji­ca, Sonia Díez, Hugo Her­rera, Pilar Díez
Year  2014
Pho­to credits  

EXT 01: Javier Rincón Sánchez
EXT 02: Javier Rincón Sánchez
EXT 03: Javier Rincón Sánchez
EXT 04: Javier Rincón Sánchez
EXT 05: Javier Rincón Sánchez
INT 01: Javier Rincón Sánchez
INT 02: Javier Rincón Sánchez
INT 03: Javier Rincón Sánchez
INT 04: Javier Rincón Sánchez
INT 05: Javier Rincón Sánchez

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Project descrip­tion

The expan­sion project of the Monastery of La Aguil­era responds to the set­tle­ment of the Iesu Com­mu­nio Insti­tute from the near­by town of Ler­ma, in a for­mer Fran­scis­can estab­lish­ment dat­ing back to the fif­teenth century.

The enor­mous empa­thy and sen­si­tiv­i­ty of the nuns, man­i­fest­ed in their atten­tion to the pil­grims that vis­it them, led to the need to com­plete the pro­gram of the orig­i­nal monastery with some new build­ings planned inde­pen­dent­ly although log­i­cal­ly linked by cov­ered cir­cu­la­tions: a church, whose inner space would favor a par­tic­i­pa­to­ry and meet­ing litur­gy with pil­grims; sev­er­al build­ings of par­lors –as a new meet­ing point between the Com­mu­ni­ty and the pil­grims– qual­i­fied by its size; and a spe­cif­ic train­ing area with­in the clois­ter. Sim­i­lar­ly, the strength and youth of this Com­mu­ni­ty invit­ed to a func­tion­al land­scape treat­ment, both in the area ded­i­cat­ed for the nuns like the pil­grims, lead­ing to a group of open spaces rang­ing from the recep­tion square to the inner recre­ation­al areas.

The over­all geom­e­try of the new inter­ven­tion responds to a metaphor based on the print that rain­drops leave on the ground, under­stood this in turn as the image of the rela­tion­ship between Heav­en and Earth. The build­ings, of cir­cu­lar plan and geom­e­try approx­i­mate­ly cylin­dri­cal, col­o­nize the avail­able area in an appar­ent­ly ran­dom way, form­ing an open land­scape that con­trasts har­mo­nious­ly with the orig­i­nal set. Like­wise the orga­ni­za­tion of the out­er spaces linked to the pil­grims fol­lows a sim­i­lar arrange­ment, draw­ing the bound­aries of these small squares or rela­tion spaces to be tai­lored to the con­tours of the land. The result is a kind of link­er of open and built spaces that frag­ment the large action area, he whole of it wrapped by the walls of the old convent.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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