The beauty of a friendly interior. Cultural Center Favara by COR Arquitectos
07/08/2023.
[VAL] Spain
metalocus, ADELA BONAS
metalocus, ADELA BONAS
Cultural Center Favara by COR Arquitectos. Photograph by David Frutos.
Project description by COR Asociados Arquitectos
In this Civic and Cultural Center project located in the Valencian neighborhood of Favara (Valencia, Spain), the plot between party walls conditioned the proposal.
The site offered a short façade to José Zaragoza street and yet it was enlarged at the end of it until it almost doubled in the background dividing wall.
The priority, from the beginning, was to carry out a building so that all the associations and neighbors would use it constantly: they would reprogram it, invade it, and make it their own. Hence, multipurpose spaces allow, thanks to the technological conditions with which we have endowed them, to be able to assume almost any use.
The center of the building is a totally transparent patio where all the spaces are turned, including those for circulation. This makes it possible to make transparent to users what is happening in each room of the building: a yoga class, a neighborhood meeting, a computer course, the organization of the "falla", a music class... Somehow we have wanted This decision will help people integrate into their immediate society more easily. Understanding that when a person moves through the building, they are seen from the rooms and vice versa, what we understand entails a reduction in the limits between users and therefore greater proximity.
Cultural Center Favara by COR Arquitectos. Photograph by David Frutos.
The project joins in and tries to propose a revision of the multifunctional or container-building model. To do this, the program is arranged around the patio and stacked vertically. These neighborhood buildings propose a programmatic fit based on the idea that all uses should be on the ground floor in direct relation to the street. The impossibility in the compact European city of finding large plots within the areas of influence leads us to deploy the program in a vertical sequence of floors that are articulated around the communication elements: the staircase and lobbies that, therefore, are erected as the heart of the building. The meeting place that we have proposed with a bright pink color leads users to remember that space as a different place. Likewise, the sequence of plants that derive from this verticality is pierced with a patio capable of providing natural lighting to all spaces and deploying a natural ventilation system.
Cultural Center Favara by COR Arquitectos. Photograph by David Frutos.
The façade responds to its neighborhood context, generating changing brightness, thanks to the fact that the stone used in its enclosure has four different levels of finish, from brightest to least. Generating a jingle, a vibration... accompanying people walking down the street.
COR & asociados was created in 2006 by Architects Jesus Olivares and Miguel Rodenas, after graduating from the University of Alicante with Master Degrees in Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism. Currently, they are directors of the Architecture and Urbanism Area.
In 2007, Jose Verdu, Technical Architect and Building Engineer from the University of San Antonio was incorporated as director of the Division of Technical Assistance and Construction.
And finally, in 2008, Nuria Rodenas, Master Degree in Tax Consultancy from the University Miguel Hernández, Master Degree in Tax Business with honors from the Fundesem Business School, Master Degree in Finance by Fundesem Business School, Master Degree Business Administration and Management from the UCAM, and Degree Bussiness Studies from the University of Alicante; was incorporated as CFO of the company, and currently is director of the area of Business Consulting.