Reina & Asociados studio, directed by the architect Francisco Reina Fernández-Trujillo together with the collaboration of Olga Valderas and Mercedes Sánchez, has designed the New Ticket Office of the Real Alcázar of Seville, the famous palace complex whose origins date back to the High Middle Ages was declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1987. The project is located in the Patio de Banderas near the Puerta del Apeadero.

The project shows an elegant intervention that knows how to integrate and dialogue in a complex of great architectural and historical value, an architectural complex that has evolved where different architectural styles have been shown.
The new ticket office of the Real Alcázar of Seville designed by Reina & Asociados studio is adapted in a palace complex in which the historical context has been decisive, where you can see vestiges of medieval, Islamic, Mudejar, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerist and baroque, among others. Due to this, a subtle contemporary intervention allows us to understand the Real Alcázar as a building that is in constant modification throughout its history.

The different elements of aluminum, glass, and steel dialogue and enter into strong contrast with the stone and the paired walls, both in the use of the material and in their own texture, therefore, it shows a clear contrast between different times.
 

Project description by Reina & Asociados

The intervention is aimed at adapting a space of modest dimensions as a new ticket sales point for the Real Alcázar. Located in the Patio de Banderas and close to the Puerta del Apeadero, it occupies a part of the eastern nave of the old Palacio del Yeso (12th century).

The building in which it is located has been formed through the progressive appropriation of rooms that once belonged to the Alcázar. Like other constructions of the original enclosure in the monumental complex, it preserves fossilised pre-existences of different periods that are part of more modern buildings. Thanks to the historical recycling of its architecture, the traces of the Islamic palaces continue to have a direct correspondence with contemporary walls and facades today. This enables recognition of their main elements through specific recovery operations such as this one.

The space, continuously altered over time, shows on its walls the traces and scars of numerous repairs and transformations. Now, the new pieces in aluminium, steel and glass coexist with the rich textures and the materiality of the historic walls. Soft indirect lighting contributes to generating a warm and inclusive atmosphere where the protagonist presence of the pre-existences anticipates to visitors the heritage that they are about to explore on their tour around the Alcázar.

The door of the new ticket office opens towards the outside to show its metallic underside - framed by a splendid bougainvillea - as a visible claim for the public who access from the Patio de Banderas.

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Architects.- Francisco Reina Fernández-Trujillo.
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Architect.- Mercedes Sánchez González, Olga Valderas Grisalvo. Technical architect.- Víctor Baztán Cascales. Archaeologist doctor.- Miguel Ángel Tabales Rodríguez.
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20sqm.
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October 2018 - July 2020.
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Real Alcazar de Sevilla, Seville, Seville Province, Andalusia, Spain.
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Francisco Reina (Cádiz, 1964) is an architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Seville since 1989 and a Master in "Architectural and Urban Intervention" from the Higher Center of Architecture, Madrid 1992. He is a professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSAS since 1996.

In 2009 he founded the architecture studio Reina & Asociados together with the architects Olga Valderas and Mercedes Sánchez. His professional activity, seeking an agreement with teaching and research, has been directed mainly to heritage intervention and has been published in specialized publications. The renovation and building works have been combined with heritage actions in the Archaeological Complexes and Enclaves of Itálica, Carmona, Carteia, Baelo Claudia and the Roman Theater of Cádiz, the Castle of Jimena de la Frontera (Cádiz) and, currently, in the Real Artillery Factory, General Archive of the Indies and the Real Alcázar of Seville.

His career has been the subject of various recognitions, including the Andalusia Architecture Prize 2022 in the category of Conservation, Renovation and Enhancement of Built Heritage Architecture; the Architecture & Society Award from the Official College of Architects of Seville in the Architectural Design category in 2022 and, in 2020, in the City, Landscape and Territory category; He was a finalist in the 2009 Intervention in Spanish Architectural Heritage Award from the Higher Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain. His work has been selected in the Spanish Biennials of Architecture and Urbanism XIV and XVI.

 
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Published on: January 1, 2021
Cite: "Analysis of periods, materials, and textures. New Ticket Office of the Real Alcázar by Reina & Asociados" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/analysis-periods-materials-and-textures-new-ticket-office-real-alcazar-reina-asociados> ISSN 1139-6415
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