Continuity due to collective memory. Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger
02/02/2022.
[Córdoba] Spain
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The residential building in Campo de la Verdad, designed by architects Ignacio Laguillo Díaz, Paco Marqués Vilaplana, and Harald Schönegger, was born from the interpretation of the local regulations of Cordoba with the desire to evoke familiar situations in the architectural culture of Andalusia.
The 1,275 m² building consists of 14 apartments with a garage, where the program is common to all without any distinction. The continuity of the program allows the design of a fluid and dynamic space that compensates for the reduced projected surfaces.
The 1,275 m² building consists of 14 apartments with a garage, where the program is common to all without any distinction. The continuity of the program allows the design of a fluid and dynamic space that compensates for the reduced projected surfaces.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Model. Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger.
Site plan. Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger.
Ground floor plan. Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger.
First floor plan. Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger.
Elevations. Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger.
Detail. Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger.
This project by Ignacio Laguillo Díaz, Paco Marqués Vilaplana, and Harald Schönegger translates into a contemporary language the architecture associated with the collective memory of this region. The obtained result establishes a relationship of continuity with the traditional values and memories but without attributing meaningless formalisms.
The building is inserted into the urban fabric with protective and massive qualities. The continuous volume modulates its presence in the city by adjusting the scale of its openings on each façade in a meticulous way. While the open and luminous interiors are organized around courtyards on which the general circulation flows.
Residential building in Campo de la Verdad by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger. Photograph by Fernando AldaThe building is inserted into the urban fabric with protective and massive qualities. The continuous volume modulates its presence in the city by adjusting the scale of its openings on each façade in a meticulous way. While the open and luminous interiors are organized around courtyards on which the general circulation flows.
Description of project by Laguillo + Marqués + Schönegger
Located in front of the monumental complex of the city of Cordoba, the Campo de la Verdad has undergone a major transformation in recent years. The rehabilitation and pedestrianization of the Roman Bridge and the surroundings of the Calahorra Tower, as well as the construction of the Miraflores Bridge, have substantially improved the connection between the two banks of the Guadalquivir River. Also, important facilities such as the new Miraflores Park and the Andalusian Space for Contemporary Creation C4 have dissolved the condition of the suburb outside the walls that have historically characterized this place. From this point of view, the land occupies a strategic position and should be understood not only concerning the local fabric but also to this new condition.
The affectation of a Typological Protection Ordinance induced a typological recreation based on the definition of massive, protective facades and open and luminous interiors organized around courtyards on which the general circulations are poured. The project interprets these regulations as the desire to evoke familiar situations in our culture: the hallway as a transition between the public and the private; the contrast between the controlled and calm atmosphere of the courtyard -characterized by the presence of water and vegetation- and the heavy facades of vertical openings; or certain materiality derived from the construction using traditional systems. Therefore, one of the main objectives was to translate this architecture into a contemporary language, establishing at the same time a relationship of continuity -without nostalgia- with the values and memories that we associate with it from the collective memory.
The entrance to the building is proposed from a small public space. This relationship of continuity between the street and the courtyard, the public and the private, is articulated through the vestibule understood as an entrance hall, a waiting threshold. The complex will be organized around a courtyard, warm and calm, characterized by the presence of vegetation and water, a traditional system of passive control of environmental conditions. Vehicle access is from a side street, taking advantage of the unevenness of the land to reduce the depth of excavation and allow access via a gentle ramp.
The building appears massive and protective to the city, a continuous body that modulates its presence by adjusting the scale on each façade. Towards the river, the openings are larger in response to the riverside landscape and the views of the monumental complex, while towards the interior of the neighborhood they are reduced in size, establishing a certain relationship of continuity with it.
The program consists of 14 apartments with a garage, most of them open exclusively to the outside to preserve the privacy of the gallery. The small program is common in all of them: toilet, living-dining-kitchen-kitchen, and bedroom projecting the continuity between the latter to create a more fluid space to compensate for its reduced surface.
An ornamental railing with an almost textile quality resonates with images of popular culture and plant motifs. Traditional washed Chinese, natural stone, lime mortar, wood, water, and plants complete the materiality of the courtyard, intoned to produce a pleasant atmosphere, familiar and strange at the same time. A tension between tradition and contemporaneity finally threads all the decisions of the project.
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Architects
Ignacio Laguillo Díaz (Project and Construction Management), Paco Marqués Vilaplana (Project and Construction Management), Harald Schönegger (Project).
Collaborators
Industrial Engineer.- Miguel Sibón. Civil Engineer.- Enrique Cabrera. Execution Direction.- Rosalino Daza Fernández. Interior design.- Rosario Moreno-Torres. Landscaping.- Jaime García. Collaborators.- Blanca Farrerons, Francisco Moreno, Ignacio Olivares, Alvaro Valverde. Construction manager.- Manuel Peinazo. Technical architect.- Antonio Trujillo. Industrial engineer.- Juan Rojano.
Builder
Construcciones Serrot, S.A.- Miguel Torres / Agustín Torres / Antonio Torres.
Developer
Area
1,275 sqm.
Budget
1,175,000 euros.
Dates
PBE, Reformed and Complementary.- 2016 - 2019. Construction works.- 2019 - 2020.
Location
C/ Acera mira al río s/n. Campo de la Verdad. Córdoba, Spain.
Photography
Ignacio Laguillo
Ignacio Laguillo is an architect by the School of Architecture of Seville since 1993. Between 1999 and 2019 he has worked associated with different professionals, having obtained various national and international awards for his built work, highlighting the FAD Architecture Award 2007 (Barcelona) for the Judicial Headquarters of Antequera (Malaga), the Bauwelt Prize 2005 (Munich) for the Indoor Swimming Pool of Lepe (Huelva), and finalists of different editions of the ENOR Awards, AIT Awards, Brick Awards or Philippe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture.
Part of his work has been exhibited at the Mostra Giovani Architetti Europei 2004 (Naples), the IX Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Española 2007 (Santander), as well as the XI Mostra Internazionale di Architettura Biennale di Venezia 2008.
Since 2020 he runs his firm, Laguillo Arquitectos, recently recognized with the 1st Prize of the International Competition for the new National Museum of Archaeology in Chung-Ju (Korea).
Part of his work has been exhibited at the Mostra Giovani Architetti Europei 2004 (Naples), the IX Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Española 2007 (Santander), as well as the XI Mostra Internazionale di Architettura Biennale di Venezia 2008.
Since 2020 he runs his firm, Laguillo Arquitectos, recently recognized with the 1st Prize of the International Competition for the new National Museum of Archaeology in Chung-Ju (Korea).
Paco Marqués
Paco Marqués graduated as an architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla in 2001. After a period working as a collaborator in several studios, he joined forces with María Cayuela, founding Cayuela Marqués arquitectos in 2004.
His work is characterized by an attentive approach to the place, as well as the search for a certain balance between familiarity and strangeness, continuity and singularity. Of the works built, it is worth mentioning the House in Beas, winner of the COAH Architecture Award in its XII edition; the House in Valdegrosa, special mention in the XIX edition; and the Sports Pavilion in Isla de la Cartuja, selected by the architecture guide Sevilla Contemporánea: Arquitectura 2000-2010.
Together with architect Luis Rubio, he recently won the competition for the renovation and expansion of the La Rábida Institute in Huelva, and the competition for the renovation of the old market on Paseo Santa Fe, also in Huelva.
His work is characterized by an attentive approach to the place, as well as the search for a certain balance between familiarity and strangeness, continuity and singularity. Of the works built, it is worth mentioning the House in Beas, winner of the COAH Architecture Award in its XII edition; the House in Valdegrosa, special mention in the XIX edition; and the Sports Pavilion in Isla de la Cartuja, selected by the architecture guide Sevilla Contemporánea: Arquitectura 2000-2010.
Together with architect Luis Rubio, he recently won the competition for the renovation and expansion of the La Rábida Institute in Huelva, and the competition for the renovation of the old market on Paseo Santa Fe, also in Huelva.
Harald SCHÖNEGGER
Harald Schönegger was born and grow up in Italy, where he obtained his degree as Architect with Cum Laude Honours, he moved to Sevilla where combined his first professional activities with academic work as a T.A. Professor at the Department of Building Design at the school of Architects in Sevilla. In 1998 he was granted a scholarship to complete his investigation until year 2000.
Worked for Vázquez Consuegra and Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos from 1994 to 1998, where he met Ignacio Laguillo with whom founded Laguillo-Schönegger Arquitectos. Together they achieved great recognition for their work, being exhibited at national as well as international venues such as la Mostra Giovani Architetti Europei 2004 en Napoli (Italia), the IX Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Española 2007 (Spanish Housing Ministery, Madrid) and the XI Mostra Internazionale di Architettura. Biennale di Venezia (Italia).
Together with Ignacio Laguillo, Harald Schönegger was awarded the Bauwelt Prize 2005 for Swimming Sports Centre in Lepe (Huelva) and shortlist for the Premio de Arquitectura Española 2005. He was awarded with the Premio FAD de Arquitectura 2007 for the Antequera Judicial Site (Malaga) and citations for the Mies Van der Rohe 2007 Prize (Barcelona).
Now in Eddea, Harald is member of the Board of Directors and of the Design Review board
Worked for Vázquez Consuegra and Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos from 1994 to 1998, where he met Ignacio Laguillo with whom founded Laguillo-Schönegger Arquitectos. Together they achieved great recognition for their work, being exhibited at national as well as international venues such as la Mostra Giovani Architetti Europei 2004 en Napoli (Italia), the IX Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Española 2007 (Spanish Housing Ministery, Madrid) and the XI Mostra Internazionale di Architettura. Biennale di Venezia (Italia).
Together with Ignacio Laguillo, Harald Schönegger was awarded the Bauwelt Prize 2005 for Swimming Sports Centre in Lepe (Huelva) and shortlist for the Premio de Arquitectura Española 2005. He was awarded with the Premio FAD de Arquitectura 2007 for the Antequera Judicial Site (Malaga) and citations for the Mies Van der Rohe 2007 Prize (Barcelona).
Now in Eddea, Harald is member of the Board of Directors and of the Design Review board
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