Pinillos house is located in the historical complex of Cadiz, which compact urbanism was formed between the XVII and XIX centuries as a consequence of the role played by the town after the discovery of America. The building, which originally served as a house, will host after the intervention a museum.

The intervention carried out by Reina & Associados, of clean and well defined spaces, has followed a rigorous criterion regarding the conservation and value of significant elements and spaces of different epochs while articulating and relating to the pre-existence.

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Pinillos house is located in the historical centre of Cádiz, whose compact urbanism was developed between the XVII and XIX centuries as a consequence of the role played by the city after the discovery of America. During this time, merchants coming from different locations built their houses until exhausting the urban fabric limited by the city walls and the sea. These manor houses share features that are very distinctive, such as its four levels organized around a patio or the lookout towers, singular element from the local domestic architecture.

The building was donated to the Museum of Cádiz in 2006. The main objective of the intervention, promoted by the Ministry for Culture, was to regain its cultural values as well as equipping it with the necessary infrastructures to be properly use as a Museum. The implemented project had as a reference a prior meticulous historical research that allowed to distinguish the different constructive phases that span from the XVIII century to the XX century.

The intervention has followed strict criteria regarding the conservation and promotion of all the significant elements and spaces. The typological structure of the bourgeois house offers different sceneries in each level, turning the museum´s visit into a diverse visit, linking different sequences that become lighter and more luminous as we move upwards. It can be distinguished through its section, the potential of the higher levels as basic shaping spaces in the building, privileged lounge areas in which also enjoy the exterior. Its adaptation lays upon a folded steel and glazed surface that surrounds the look-out tower and protects the patio as if it were a glass-roof, reinterpreting this traditional element from the bourgeois houses from the XIX century.

At the end of the journey we discover the vision of an urban landscape cropped over the sea. From this height we recognise numerous houses and look-out towers that, just like the Pinillos House, make up the singular historical centre of Cádiz.

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Mercedes Sánchez González, Olga Valderas Grisalvo, José Allona Rosendo. Juan Pablo Rodríguez Frade (Museology).

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Plaza de Mina. Cádiz
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2011
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Ministry of Culture. Government of Spain.
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Francisco Reina (Cádiz, 1964) is an architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Seville since 1989 and a Master in "Architectural and Urban Intervention" from the Higher Center of Architecture, Madrid 1992. He is a professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSAS since 1996.

In 2009 he founded the architecture studio Reina & Asociados together with the architects Olga Valderas and Mercedes Sánchez. His professional activity, seeking an agreement with teaching and research, has been directed mainly to heritage intervention and has been published in specialized publications. The renovation and building works have been combined with heritage actions in the Archaeological Complexes and Enclaves of Itálica, Carmona, Carteia, Baelo Claudia and the Roman Theater of Cádiz, the Castle of Jimena de la Frontera (Cádiz) and, currently, in the Real Artillery Factory, General Archive of the Indies and the Real Alcázar of Seville.

His career has been the subject of various recognitions, including the Andalusia Architecture Prize 2022 in the category of Conservation, Renovation and Enhancement of Built Heritage Architecture; the Architecture & Society Award from the Official College of Architects of Seville in the Architectural Design category in 2022 and, in 2020, in the City, Landscape and Territory category; He was a finalist in the 2009 Intervention in Spanish Architectural Heritage Award from the Higher Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain. His work has been selected in the Spanish Biennials of Architecture and Urbanism XIV and XVI.

 
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