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“History is not a substitute for imagination” Frank Gherry

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This project refers to a building where two different levels and architectural languages coexist and converse, expressing the contrast between the old and new. The first level consists of the Neoclassical Architecture sections which dominate morphologically the entity of the building, whilst the modern architecture section with a contemporary vocabulary is the second. The Neoclassical Architecture sections, composed of volumes in an orthogonal plan, follow the rules of this specific architectural language. On the other hand, the section of the modern architecture doesn’t follow a uniform way of development as it consists of a curved volume that goes into the building. This volume, following the inclination of the plot’s boundary, penetrates between the Neoclassical sections and results in a triangular pinnacle known as “wedge”.  The result of this “conflict” are the in between spaces of the atriums which create the secondary parts of the contradiction between the two levels (open-closed, solid-transparent).

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