Cultural centre on the bank of the Guadalquivir. Seville, Spain
The project programme required me to achieve a foundation level of 22 metres below ground level, so the main difficulty was in creating this space. At this level, the next step involved modeling the differents spaces that looked into the fissure. The result was a project which blends into the crust but allows a direct connection, encompassing the idea that the river gives life to the city. The programme aimed to create four main differing spaces, meaning that lighting was an essential consideration. The resulting ideas produced a fascinating arrangement of lighting.
First drawings of the idea. Working on sections
Drawings of the first ideas
Positioning paperboard slices, the concept of the project appeared
Almost all pieces where wrapped by deployee metalic pieces
Main view of the public space next to the river
Connection to the river
Vision of how different spaces relate to each other in the fissure
There we see how the buildings and the vacuum interacts
Under all the pieces, at the bottom, we find the main exposition area
There is also an interior exposition suspended over the vacuum
Here we see the treatment given to the river edge, converted in a walking area
Here we see how pieces cross over the fissure