The execution of the underground section of the Granada metropolitan has allowed the discovery of the archaeological remains of the Alcázar Genil pool, periurban Muslim royal residence of the 13th century. The Albercón, measuring 128 by 27 meters, was devoured at its ends during the urban growth of the twentieth century, but the central section was saved, trodden down by the Camino de Ronda, a road under whose route the metropolitan route runs.
The location in Alcázar Genil of an underground station allows the integration of the archaeological remains of the pool, recovering them, highlighting their value and making them accessible.
The Alcázar Genil station project combines the joint efforts of various disciplines that put the engineering of the 13th and 21st centuries at the same level, with a basic interdisciplinary vision to cover the complexity of the entire project in order to make contemporary infrastructures compatible with the Past hidden under the skin of our old historical centers.
The integration of the archaeological remains, at an intermediate level between the lobby and the street, starts from the fundamental premise of not dismantling the side walls of the pool. Maintaining material genetic information is the strategy that extends to the different walls and construction systems that offer the rugged texture of the earth and the horizontal stratigraphy of its tonings as an honest expression of the material of the 21st century.
Structural reinforced concrete defines the space of use on which, as a carpet, a granite flooring covers the hidden building services. Glass and stainless steel were chosen for the furniture, signage or routes, integrated through the delicate use of lighting, both natural and artificial.
The Albercón witnesses a sum of times where the old determines the roots of the new and where the new makes sense by giving continuity to the old, in another chapter of the unfinished biography of the Alcazar Genil.
El hormigón armado estructural define el espacio de uso sobre el que se dispone, a modo de alfombra, un pavimento de granito que alberga ocultas todas las instalaciones. El vidrio y el acero inoxidable resuelven el mobiliario, la señalética o los recorridos, integrados mediante el delicado uso de la iluminación, tanto natural como artificial.
El Albercón es testigo de una suma de tiempos donde lo antiguo determina el arraigo de lo nuevo y donde lo nuevo cobra sentido al dar continuidad a lo antiguo, en otro capítulo de la biografía inconclusa del Alcázar Genil.
The location in Alcázar Genil of an underground station allows the integration of the archaeological remains of the pool, recovering them, highlighting their value and making them accessible.
The Alcázar Genil station project combines the joint efforts of various disciplines that put the engineering of the 13th and 21st centuries at the same level, with a basic interdisciplinary vision to cover the complexity of the entire project in order to make contemporary infrastructures compatible with the Past hidden under the skin of our old historical centers.
The integration of the archaeological remains, at an intermediate level between the lobby and the street, starts from the fundamental premise of not dismantling the side walls of the pool. Maintaining material genetic information is the strategy that extends to the different walls and construction systems that offer the rugged texture of the earth and the horizontal stratigraphy of its tonings as an honest expression of the material of the 21st century.
Structural reinforced concrete defines the space of use on which, as a carpet, a granite flooring covers the hidden building services. Glass and stainless steel were chosen for the furniture, signage or routes, integrated through the delicate use of lighting, both natural and artificial.
The Albercón witnesses a sum of times where the old determines the roots of the new and where the new makes sense by giving continuity to the old, in another chapter of the unfinished biography of the Alcazar Genil.
El hormigón armado estructural define el espacio de uso sobre el que se dispone, a modo de alfombra, un pavimento de granito que alberga ocultas todas las instalaciones. El vidrio y el acero inoxidable resuelven el mobiliario, la señalética o los recorridos, integrados mediante el delicado uso de la iluminación, tanto natural como artificial.
El Albercón es testigo de una suma de tiempos donde lo antiguo determina el arraigo de lo nuevo y donde lo nuevo cobra sentido al dar continuidad a lo antiguo, en otro capítulo de la biografía inconclusa del Alcázar Genil.
