Article source: aceboXalonso Studio

(In the begginnig, this project’s name was Arts Centre, but nowadays it’s called MUNCYT. In fact, it became the National Museum of Science and Technology.)

This Project is the first price of an international competition to build combination of two different briefs, a Dance School and a Museum. We proposed to develop them in a single volume. This allowed us to explore the relationship between two structures that  were different in every aspect: organization, perception, expression, function and construction. Using both factors, we had the chance to add, sustract, divide, but we chose to multiply. The strange concrete form contains the school while the outer surface, the space between the form and the limit, contains the museum.

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• Architects: aceboXalonso Studio
• Project: Arts centre in La Coruña
• Location: La Coruña, Spain
• Architects and Works directors: Ángel Alonso y Victoria Acebo
• Competition: 2001
• Works starts: 2003
• End date: december 2006
• Client: Excma. Diputación de a Coruña

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