Built on top of the ruin of the old Ateneo Musical del Puerto located at the Cabanyal Quarter in Valencia, the Cultural Center proposal is erected. Take a look behind the wall of the old building and discover it by yourself!
Eduardo de Miguel  has been the architect in charge of the construction of a Cultural Centre in Valencia, whose main complicaión was its coexistence with an old building in extreme decay. Through the project, and as you can see from the photographs of Mariela Apollonio, the building manages to keep the facade of ruin and build a space in line with the its entity. An architecture that, without eclipsing the preexistence, stands out for the subtlety with which it merges the environment.
 

Description of the project by Eduardo de Miguel

The project works over the rests of the old “Ateneo Musical” located in “el Cabanyal”, near the port of Valencia.  The only element which is maintained is the facade that looks towards Rosario Square, in order to preserve the character of the most emblematic urban space of “el Cabanyal”   

The new building is composed of a civic centre, a music hall, theatre and public representations with a capacity for 400 people and a service area.  The site’s perimeter is formed by the pre-existing party walls of the neighbouring buildings in which case it is very difficult to establish a direct relationship with the environment. 

The most evident characteristic of the intervention is the double wall which contains the circulation elements and permits the introduction of natural light though it.  The tension of the project is produced between the communication spaces that are placed between the two walls and the public spaces that occupy  the open-spaces created in the interior. The open space of the entrance hall, meeting place between the civic centre and the principal hall, receives light from above veiled by wooden strips that sift the light and continue until the floor.

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Eduardo de Miguel Arbonés.
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Project.- 1999.
Completion.- 2003.
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Venue
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3 Rosario Square. Cabanyal Quarter, Valencia. Spain.
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Arancha Muñoz Criado, architect, David Zaragaza Aznar, architect, Pablo Fuertes Pérez, architect and Antonio García Blay, architect.
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2,900 sqm.
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Valencia City Hall and Actuaciones Urbanas de Valencia, (AUMSA).
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Eduardo de Miguel Arbonés was born in Pamplona in 1959. Architect by the University of Navarra obtaining a Magna cum Laude at his Final Project. He is a PhD Architect from Technical University of Madrid. He enwidens his studies at the Real Academia de España in Rome, at the Centro di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza and at the School of Architecture in Princeton University.

He has held teaching activities as an Associate Professor of Architectural Design at the University of Navarra and the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In 1994 he moved to Valencia and currently is Professor of Studio class at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

His work has received numerous awards among which could highlight the III Biennial of Spanish Architecture for the Health Center Azpilagaña in Pamplona, ​​the V Biennial of Spanish Architecture by 8 Housing Rehousing in the Carmen district of Valencia and the VII Biennial of Spanish Architecture for the Extension of the Palau de la Música. The Musical Cultural Center in the neighborhood of Cabanyal, was a finalist in the FAD 2004 awards, in the Klippan Award 2008 and selected for the IX Biennale di Architettura di Venezia 2004; Project Landscape integration of the Tram in Grossa Serra de Alicante, recently completed, has won the FAD Award of the opinion 2009, was a finalist in the European Prize for Public Space 2010 and has been selected for the VII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in Medellin in 2010. Along with these awards his work has been reflected in numerous magazines and publications among which would include El Croquis, a & V, Architectural Record, Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture.
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