The architectural studio Otxotorena Arquitectos has been in charge of the rehabilitation and reform of this old single family mansion that from now on will welcome a new residential use as Dortmitory School.

The project of Otxotorena Arquitectos includes the rehabilitation of the existing factory and the introduction into the lot of a new volume, with clean lines that adapts exceptionally to the existing context.
 

Description of the project by Otxotorena Arquitectos

The work entails the rehabilitation and refurbishment of an existing construction, recently aimed at teaching functions, and its enlargement to host a new residential site as student dormitory.

The building dates back to the early twentieth century. It has a privileged location and magnificent views; It is part of a stylistic line affiliated with the Regionalist historicism of that era, dominated by eclecticism. It emphasizes on the quality of its interior space, the ambition of its decorative finishes and the presence of its exterior appearance. As well as the way it is affirmed in the landscape, with a very marked silhouette in the image of the city from the beach. 

It was originally a single-family palace. And develops an elaborate language, of notable dedication in the delimitation and coronation of the cloths, with profusion of moldings and adornment. Its interior design revolves around the prominence of a wide and impressive double-height vestibular space. It results from the emptying of the volume of the central part and is topped with a large horizontal window of measured but effective luminosity. 

The top floor overlooks this space across its perimeter, through a long balcony. The main access is located on its perpendicular axis; And it stands before a rhetorical marble staircase that bridges the height between these two floors and occupies the bottom of the axis of the composition.
The plot is quite close to the ends of the volume, except for its north side, where the access road runs, parallel to the main facade; Beyond it, the terrainfalls abruptly with a strong green slope that looks towards the bay.

The project involves the rehabilitation of the existing wall and the introduction of a new body built, horizontal and lying down: with its back against the ground. A wide-open terrace is obtained to the floor-level views of the ground floor.

The new complex completely conserves all the common spaces and the valuable elements of the decoration. The outer bay of the upper floors is intended for study rooms and accommodation, excluding some rooms; The basement accommodates different technical rooms, apart from the link with the new volume. It presents a linear structure of functional nature: it has three floors, and completes the program until it reaches a number of around fifty dormitories for students, all individual. The requirement of the orientation, given the rainfall, leads to opt for a glass curtain wall in its enclosure.


PHOTOGRAPHY.- Rubén Pérez Bescós
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Juan M. Otxotorena
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Collaborating architects
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Gloria Herrera Damas, Catalina Delgado Pueyo
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Quantity surveyor.- Ignacio Quintana Ortiz, Javier Urdaci Úbeda
Engineering of structures.- Alvaro Alberdi engenharia
Engineering of installations.- INCOA
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Construction
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Construcciones ACR
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Colegio Mayor Jaizkibel
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Plot area.- 5933.00 m²
Builded surface.- 2829, 00 m²
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End date.- August 2016
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Juan Miguel Otxotorena Elizegi. Born in 1959 in San Sebastian, he has lived in Pamplona since 1976, which was when he went to the city to start his university studies. He graduated as an architect at the Navarre University in 1983. He was distinguished with an Extraordinary Award for his Doctorate in1987. In 1990 he was appointed amongst many candidates the professorship of the Architectural Form Analysis Chair at Valladolid University, where he taught until 1994. For 15 years –from that time until up to September 2009– he was the Director of the Pamplona School of Architecture at the University of Navarre. He is still practices as a Professor and Director of the Projects Department.

His experience in the free exercise of the profession started in 1989. In 1998 he founded the current Otxotorena Arquitectos firm in which architects, surveyors and engineers collaborate, and with which he had obtained successive recognition on constructed buildings, amongst which we can highlight the second European Prize for Architecture of Sports Facilities (1999), and a whole series of open project competitions first prizes —on his own or associated with other architects—, such as those referred to the sports centres in Estella and Olazagutía, the new Headquarters of the Parliament in Navarra, The Palace of Congresses and Auditorium of Pamplona, the reconditioning of the León Cathedral cloisters, the new building for the Valle de Egüés Town Hall, the Aquavox Hydrothermal Center (Pamplona), the Tudela Courts, etc.
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Published on: June 8, 2017
Cite: "Clean lines for the façade of the Colegio Mayor Jaizkibel by Otxotorena Arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/clean-lines-facade-colegio-mayor-jaizkibel-otxotorena-arquitectos> ISSN 1139-6415
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