Iñaqui Carnicero Alonso-Colmenares (Director general de Agenda Urbana y Arquitectura, Presidente), María Hilda Jiménez Núñez (Directora General del Servicio Exterior del MAEC), Mª Ángeles Albert de León (Directora de la RAER), Marta Callejón Cristóbal (Subdirectora General de Arquitectura y Edificación), Juan Bordes Caballero (Representante de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando en el Patronato de la RAER), Elías Torres Tur (Arquitecto), Margherita Guccione (Arquitecta), María Langarita Sánchez (Arquitecta), Elena Calama Martín (Subdirección General de Arquitectura y Edificación, Secretaria).
Project description by Jesús Aparicio and Donaire Milans
The architectural proposal presented under the motto Future Precedent, referring to a future rooted in the knowledge of history, aims to solve the various problems that the building presents in relation to its adaptation to Italian building regulations, acting and restoring those essential elements of its original structure and in its complex circulation diagram, even restoring some connections from the original convent to better link the two cloisters and, in turn, the Tempietto cloister with the garden. The proposal also offers an extension, which helps to solve the current lack of specific spaces for the good development of the creative and research processes of the residents.
It is also intended to functionally reconfigure some unique areas of the RAER by offering a series of multipurpose spaces that can meet the new production needs in the digital age and cultural expansion with the addition of new disciplines. Likewise, it is proposed to strengthen the museum circuit and create new studios for work. In particular, research residents are provided with a belvedere workspace above the library, a new heart, with the most impressive views of the city, located between the two towers and thus balancing the quality of workspaces for all residents. . All this economic effort must have visibility in accordance with the expectations that are offered to the eternal city, Rome, with a building with its windows and doors open to its citizens and its visitors. To achieve this, a master plan in three phases is presented parallel to the architectural proposal, which allows, in a very effective way, to give continuity to the life of the Academy during the works that will be carried out.
With this extension and functional restructuring, by intervening in the historic building, new public areas are proposed that open the building, even more, to the city of Rome, culturally completing the experience of visiting Bramante's Tempietto with a range of cultural activities and services typical of a prestigious center that represents Spanish and Latin American culture abroad (since the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development, with its scholarships, offers this possibility to artists and researchers from the Hispanic community).
