Article source: Ángel Verdasco Arquitectos 

This work presents architecture as a tool and as a strategy that mediates in social conflicts, rebuilding both the area and the relationships between its users.

A multicultural architecture.Melilla is a small Spanish city bordering Morocco located in North Africa.

The closing of the Central Market in 2003, after 90 years of operation, left a completely abandoned area in the city.

The ideas competition (2008) asked for three local educational centers to be relocated there: The Academy of Music, the Languages School and the Educational Center for Adults.

Image Courtesy © Jesús Granada and Rubén P.Bescós

• Architects: Ángel Verdasco Arquitectos
• Project: Melilla Central Market Refurbishment
• Location: Melilla, Spain
• Photography: Jesús Granada and Rubén P.Bescós 
  
• Collaborators: Juan Carlos Corona (Quantity Surveyor), Brianda Campoamor, Ricardo Mayor, Roberto Marín, Silvia Fraga, María Serrano, Arancha Alonso, Léhéna Lucquet, Ricardo
• RodaEngineering: IDEE Structures, CGM Acoustics, IP Engineering Installations
  
• Cost: 957 euros / m2
  
• Area: 7.548 m2.
  
• Year Project: 2018
  

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