Masquespacio presents its last project for Pukkel, a fine dining healthy food restaurant in the city of Huesca, Spain.
The project starts when Jorge and Mikel got the idea to open a restaurant in the city of Huesca and contacted Masquespacio with the aim to offer above signature healthy food, a sensorial experience beyond the gastronomy.
This modern rammed earth house is located in Ayerbe, a little village in the Spanish Pyrenees. Rural migration in the region during middle 20th century led to the disappearance of traditional architecture techniques. This house attempts to awaken the interest of the community and the curiosity about this type of sustainable buildings that are strongly linked to the territory. The project has been inspired by old local earthen buildings regarding their orientation, morphology and the use of local materials.
An attic built in Huesca city in 1965 was the object of the study. The need of living and working simultaneously in the same space and solving the difficult relation between the different programmes is an exercice that connects perfectly with the nowadays social needs.
The project deals with the Refurbishment of the West Tower of the Huesca City Hall in order to turn it into City Archives.
Due to its position and volume, the Archives round off the set of buildings that make up the Huesca City Hall which gives the impression of being an unfinished construction, for the east and west walls are party walls and it seems as if in the past, they might have had an adjoining construction:
The west wall is a mud wall with rows of solid brick, with irregular openings, some of which are bricked up.
The east wall is blind except for an opening on the attic floor
The building is crossed by a transverse axis with two main entrances: one from the west at the level of Ayerbe’s walkway (through the second floor) and the other from the east (through the ground floor). From this axis, including the staircase and the lift, start, in the three upper floors, corridors parallel to the façade.
The building reflects a new image of justice justice strict but nearby, a rigid but close to the citizen, embodied in a building that clearly shows the nature of both concepts, the image of a strict, transparent element and emphatic and simple geometry that is justice, wrapped in its lower level by a public socket that receives people and is integrated into the urban landscape is folding and opening up to the city through a system courtyards and plazas.
Acceso
Architects: Sergio Sebastián, Luis Faci, Alejandro Rincón
Project: Palace of Justice of Huesca
Location: Huesca, Spain
Agency: Directorate General of Administration of Justice
Assistant Development of project Executive: OLANO and Mendo S.L.