This project is located on Monte Gaiás a
small hill overlooking Santiago de Compostela, province of Galicia of
North-western Spain.
Designed by American architect, Peter
Eisenman. The project started in 1999 and still on going. The cost of the
project is about €400million.
The project has 6 buildings:
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The Galician museum
(172,000 sq ft)
-
International art
center (135,000 sq ft)
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The center for music
and performing arts (222,000 sq ft)
-
Galician/newspaper
archives (86,000sq ft)
-
Library of Galicia
(122,000sq ft)
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The sixth building
would house the services for the other five buildings (50,000 sq ft).
The design evolves from the superposition of 3 sets of information. The first information the street plan of the medieval center of Santiago is overlaid on a topographic map of the hillside site (which overlooks the city).
The
second, a modern Cartesian grid is laid over these medieval routes. The third information
is through computer modelling software. The topography of the hillside is allowed to
distort the two flat geometries; thus generating a topological surface that
reposition old and new in simultaneous matrix never seen before.
The
building is linked in by 5 main pedestrian trodden path which leads to a
central plaza, with a 25 hectares of parkland surrounding the building. The
building is also interconnected by street plaza equipped with the highest
degree of development of technology.
The
largest building is the performing art theatre which stands 42.5 meter high.
The heights of all the buildings rises in gentle curve that seen to reconstruct
the shape of the hilltop with the collective roofline. Roof made from concrete.
Photo
credits: Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre
Paisajes Espanoles
Manuel Gonzalez Vicente
courtesy the foundation of culture gaiás.
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