The Sevillian architecture studio AF6 Arquitectura designed the renovation of the former Cerámicas Montalván Compound located in the Triana neighborhood in Seville, turning it into a restaurant and hotel.
The project by AF6 Arquitectura was developed in the Montalván factory, one of the three ceramics compounds remaining in Triana. AF6 Arquitectura recycled all ceramics left on the old shelves of the factory to create a unique contemporary architecture, where the industrial and colorful past of Triana's ceramics can be appreciated.

The rehabilitation has been carried out with innovation in mind, both in the patrimonial intervention and in the recycling. Making use of the residual materials of the old factory, the result is a building with a distinct style.
 

Description of project by AF6 Arquitectura

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Hotel and Restaurant in the ancient Montalván Pottery Factory. The Montalván Pottery Factory finished its production as a ceramic’s factory in 2012. After its closure and new acquisition, it has been transformed for a new use: Hotel and Restaurant.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The building has been built where the ancient Montalván pottery factory in Seville was settled, in the neighborhood of Triana. This factory was one of the three pottery sets that remained in Triana (Seville). The project began with a detailed research of the property. As a result of it, all the pottery that was left on the old Montalván Factory’ shelves (today Restaurant and hotel) has been recycled to create a unique contemporary architecture where you can enjoy the industrial and colourful past of the Triana ceramics from a contemporary point of view.

CONCEPT, CONTEXT AND STRATEGY

Innovation on heritage intervention. Heritage intervention from the knowledge produced by the detailed and direct research on the property. 

Innovation in recycling. The project has a very sustainable environmental guideline, where everything that was previously discarded, today is reused to achieve contemporary architecture, solvent, eco-efficient and aesthetic results of high innovation. 

A unique building has been built, where the architect is necessary, essential for his creative proposal and carryings out, making something new emerge. Taking advantage of the old factory residual materials, has become a not common or repeatable building. 

An imbricated relationship is considered with the Heritage. That is not an old-new or past-present relation but is a unique research about a particular place: A way of designing using contemporary procedures and always based on the detailed knowledge of the property, its cultural and anthropic situation.

CONSTRUCTION, MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE

The structure of the building becomes a fundamental part of the architectural intervention due to the different existing situations in the building. The emergent archeology and architecture approach generate situations of great spatial interest. 

Using recycled materials from the building that have been restored, everything that was left inside.

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F6 Arquitectura.- Miguel Hernández Valencia, Esther López Martín, Juliane Potter, Francisco J. Domínguez Saborido, Ángel González Aguilar.
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Jaime Arce Gironella, Mattia Ceccato, Miriam Confetto, Maxwell Dunn, Fabio Giordano, José María Muñoz Galván.
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UTE COTOM 21 S.L / TWIN ART S.L.
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Promoter
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Cerámicas Montalván S.A.
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Gonzalo Aparicio
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Area
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1,937 m²
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Budget and measurements.- Reyes López Martín. Archeology.- Ramón Corzo Sánchez. Restoration of kilns and ceramic pieces.- Inés Casas López, Patricia Infante Martínez.
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2013-2018
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AF6 Arquitectos is composed by Miguel Hernández Valencia, Esther López Martín, Juliane Potter, Francisco José Domínguez Saborido and Ángel González Aguilar.

Miguel Hernández Valencia. Architect, Escuela Técnica de Arquitectura of Sevilla in 1999. Contributor Professor in "Estructuras de Edificación" at E.T.S. de Arquitectura of Sevilla. Besides he is member of the "Grupo de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla TEP939 "Arquitectura para la Ciudad Creativa: Estructuras y Proyectos. Análisis y Registros"".

Esther López Martín. Architect, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of Sevilla in 2000. "Experto en Protección, Gestión y Ordenación del Paisaje" title in 2006. Masters in "Protección, Gestión y Ordenación del Paisaje" in 2009. He has contributed with the "Laboratorio del Paisaje del Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Histórico (IAPH)" and with the "Centro de Estudios Paisaje y Territorio (CEPT). Consejería de Obras Públicas y Vivivenda, y Universidades Públicas de Andalucía."

Juliane Potter. Architect, RWTH of Aachen, Germany in 1999.

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Published on: April 26, 2019
Cite: "Hotel and Restaurant in the Montalván Ceramics compound by AF6 Arquitectura" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/hotel-and-restaurant-montalvan-ceramics-compound-af6-arquitectura> ISSN 1139-6415
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