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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. Cabañeros National Park Visitors Center and Interactive Museum in Horcajo de los Montes, Spain by Álvaro PlanchueloApril 15th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Álvaro Planchuelo The Cabañeros National Park Visitors Center and Interactive Museum is a public architectonic intervention whose main objective is to promote ecotourism in the populations that forms the environment of the park, through information, exhibition, research and care of the main values of this natural space.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas
 Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas Constructor: DRAGADOS One of the main features of this Center is that architecture and museum exhibition are designed at a time from the beginning and by the same team, so that complement and content express the same idea. Both try to show the unique biodiversity that exists in Cabañeros. It is told in a rigorously scientific manner and in a divulgative way at the same time. It is a complement of the National Park, a gateway to knowledge and enjoyment for visitors.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas Architecture The main idea of implementation of the different volumes is resolved by a gradient of the process of humanization of landscape, from the access road to the Sierra del Gavilán on the horizon. The design of structural and construction elements used are inspired by the forms of nature.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas Volumes in the foreground represents the most humanized environment so that has been used load-bearing walls with white reinforced concrete, interpreting the typology of the traditional built environment, with a serie of white volumes linked by courtyards (patio–corral) forming a succession of full and empty spaces.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas The hall, the library and the cafeteria, form the entrance courtyard facade of the main building. Here the concrete walls are crowned with perimeter windows that make the slab of the sloping roof to “float” suggesting the shape of a bird of prey that is supported by isolated groups of inclined columns, inspired by the small woods of evergreen oaks that are scattered in grasslands (rañas) of the Park.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas In the third level, the walls protruding from the half buried space containing the exposition, are covered with local stone. They look like a crag over the mountains. Its roof is flat and landscaped with native plants. During construction, special attention was taken not to damage the nearby vegetation, so the evergreen oaks close to the cover contribute to hide the architectural intervention blending it into the landscape. The last plane its conformed by olive groves, scrub bush and the imposing Sierra del Gavilan in the background, now in the National Park, frequently overflown by pairs of black vultures and other birds of prey.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas Energy efficiency The design gives priority to the protection of the building from solar radiation to avoid spending on air conditioning during the hot months, which is the element of increased consumption. The architectural measures of passive design, such as volumetric fractionation uses, orientation of buildings, subterranean land use as thermal insulation and the incorporation of natural light graduated in the exhibition, along with the use of electric heat pumps, are the measures which contribute to achieve high energy efficiency of the building without emitting polluting gases into the atmosphere.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas Park biodiversity is shown in a direct way, without author interpretations, using scientific knowledge, ethology (animal behavior) and biogeographic (species distribution in the territory) of a deep and rigorous manner. It has been used technology of digital photo reproduction, representing all the wildlife park in photomontages scale 1:1, forming scenes of specific moments of nature in Cabañeros (seasons, equinoxes and solstices), illuminated with natural light overhead. These scenes inform the visitor “when”, “where” and “why” the major events of nature occur in the park, so that later is more likely to observe in the natural environment.  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas  Image Courtesy © Ricardo Santonja / Alberto Cubas Permanent exhibition is resolved in the main building and shows the most significant values of the Park:
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