southern spain’s agricultural structure revived
The Biblioteca Pública María Lejárraga is an architectural intervention wherein the previous meets new in Andalusia, Spain. Designed by the structure studio Rubens Cortés Arquitectos, this library integrates a renovated tobacco drying shed with a recent extension, reviving a relic of the area’s agricultural previous. These tobacco drying sheds have lengthy stood as symbols of Granada’s agricultural heritage, however have step by step succumbed to urbanization. The library challenge stands as a beacon of preservation, restoring a single shed with a contemporary addition with a facade of rhythmic vertical timber.
the challenge combines a restored tobacco drying shed with a contemporary extension | photos © Javier Callejas Sevilla
the library’s luminous timber studying room
The center of Rubens Cortés Arquitectos‘ library extension is its dramatic studying room, illuminated by filtered daylight via the timber facade. The room’s structural framework, crafted from interlocking picket beams, kinds an intricate latticework that encompasses partitions, ceiling, and ground. This construction, composed of 162 distinctive picket frames, transforms from sq. to pentagonal in part. Thus, the fashionable addition meets the contours of the renovated drying shed with its pitched roof on one finish, earlier than step by step ending with an oblong face on the opposite. This situation lends a faceted, sloping rooftop.
the library extension is partially underground, decreasing its visible presence and bettering vitality effectivity
subterranean structure by rubens cortés arquitectos
Pushed by a dedication to environmental sensitivity, the workforce at Rubens Cortés Arquitectos thought-about the impression of its Biblioteca Pública María Lejárraga on the encircling panorama. By partially submerging the library extension beneath the park’s floor, the architects minimized the visible mass of the construction and enhanced its bioclimatic efficiency, lending pure cooling and decreasing vitality consumption.
Regardless of the library’s partially subterranean extension, the Rubens Cortés floods the inside areas with pure gentle. Strategically positioned home windows and skylights are built-in into the picket latticework, permit daylight to filter via to create heat and alluring interiors.
situated in Ogíjares, the challenge honors Granada’s agricultural heritage whereas introducing a recent area
the architects preserved an historic tobacco drying shed 
pure gentle fills the interiors via strategically positioned home windows and skylights
