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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Professional Cooking School in Ancient Slaughterhouse by Sol89

 
May 23rd, 2013 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Sol89

Medina is a historic town in the hills in Cadiz. Its houses are known for their whitewashed walls and their ceramic roofs. The project involves adapting an ancient slaughterhouse, built in the XIX century, into a Professional Cooking School. The ancient slaughterhouse was composed of a small construction around a courtyard and a high white wall that limits the plot. If you are going to act in the historic city you must adapting, taking shelter, settling in its empty spaces.

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda 

  • Architects: Sol89
  • Project: Professional Cooking School in Ancient Slaughterhouse
  • Location: C/ Rubiales S/N, Medina Sidonia, Cádiz, Spain
  • Photography: Fernando Alda
  • Client: Fundación Forja XXI
  • Completion Date: 2011
  • Team:
    George Smudge (Architecture student)
    Jerónimo Arrebola (quantity serveyor)
    Alejandro Cabanas (Structure)
    Insur JG (building services)
    Novoarididian SA y Rhodas SL (Contractors)
  • Area: 751 m²
  • Software used: Brains and pencils, after, for final drawings, used usual CAD programs

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

The density of the architecture of the ancient slaughterhouse, where brick walls, stones and Phoenician columns coexist, contrasts with the empty space inside the plot, limited by the wall. The project proposes catching this space through a new ceramic roof that limits the new construction and consolidates the original building. If we observe Medina Sidonia from a distance, it seems to be a unique ceramic creation molded by the topography of Medina.

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

The Professional Cooking School uses this idea of the molded ceramic plane to draw its geometry. This roof lends unity to the built complex and interprets the traditional construction of the place, ceramic roofs and whitewashed walls. Some little courtyards are inserted, working as ventilation shaft, and are cultivated with different culinary plants which are used by the students to cook.

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

At the original building, ancient floors were replaced by slabs of concrete with wooden formwork that recognize traditional building forms, walls are covered with white and rough lime mortar which seeks material memory of its industrial past, and the existing Phoenician columns, displaced from the disappeared Temple of Hercules, have been consolidated. All of those materials, even the time, built this place.

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

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