SAN TELMO MUSEUM EXTENSION DESIGN BY NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS
SAN TELMO
MUSEUM EXTENSION DESIGN BY NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS
The Museum of
San Telmo, in its present condition, represents the result of a long process of
successive modifications which has partially altered its physical and
functional character over the years.
Its location
on the fringe where the urban structure meets the topography of Monte Urgull is
a reflection, on the other hand, of an urban problem very characteristic of San
Sebastian: the solution of a division never completely solved between natural
and artificial landscape.
How to
approach a contemporary extension of San Telmo in response to new requirements
for space and stringent landscaping conditions, while expressing its connection
to the location with the passing of time?
The direct
and radical gesture which defines out proposal implies paradoxically its
practical dissolution in the landscape of Monte Urgull.
We will limit
ourselves to building a new green wall, deep and light, which is defined by the
existing topography, and which hides in its interior two pavilions which will
house the new programme.
This decision
heighten the appreciation both of the historical buildings as well as the new
entrance to the museum, which offers access to the old building – which will
incorporate the permanent exhibitions – as well as to the new pavilion for
temporary exhibitions.
The main
vestibule will therefore constitute a natural link with the new areas for
cloakrooms, shop, auditorium, mediatheque, didactic hall and cafeteria which
complete the necessary areas in a museum with these characteristics.
A “green
wall”: on certain occasions the metaphor associated with an architectural idea
gives a sense to each and every aspect of the project.
Hence the
slight changes of direction of the wall are sufficient to provide a natural
solution to pedestrian access to Monte Urgull, to configure an open air
exhibition space, or to house a café-terrace open to the landscape and to the
town.
Rather an
expression of the relation natural/artificial which runs throughout our
proposal, the new building/screen will be defined by a perforated metal skin
enveloped in moss, lichen and other plant species which finally will come to
surround the whole building.
In
collaboration with the artists Leopoldo Ferrán and Agustina Otero starting with
a combinatorial game of cast-aluminium pieces expressly conceived for this
occasion, this will be an unusual intervention in a public area which
represents a common field of action between plastic arts and architecture.
The new
extension of the San Telmo Museum will modify its appearance with the passing
of the seasons: it will fade on occasions and blend with the vegetation on the
hill, and will reappear on other occasions evoking a long unfinished wall: an
unexpected metaphor – perhaps – of the difficult relation which architecture
establishes with the pass of time.
Photography
is by Fernando Alda. See more images of this
project on Alda's website.
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NIETO SOBEJANO
Enrique Sobejano (Madrid, Spain, 1957) has worked as an architect since
graduating from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Graduate School
of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York in 1981. He is
professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), where he holds the chair
of Principles of Design. He has been a visiting critic and lecturer at various
international universities worldwide. From 1986 to 1991 he was co-director of
the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA, published by the Colegio Oficial de
Arquitectos de Madrid. He chairs and participates in international conferences
and juries and is a founding partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.
Fuensanta
Nieto (Madrid, Spain, 1957) has worked as an
architect since graduating from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the
Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York
in 1981. She is a founding partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and a
professor at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Fuensanta Nieto lectures on
architecture and participates in juries and symposia at various institutions
around the world. From 1986 to 1991 she was co-director of the architectural
journal ARQUITECTURA, published by the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid.
Nieto
Sobejano Arquitectos was founded
in 1985 by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano and has offices in Madrid and,
since 2007, in Berlin. Along with being widely published in international
magazines and books, the firm’s work has been exhibited at the Biennale di
Venezia in 2000, 2002, 2006, and 2012; at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New
York, in 2006, at the Kunsthaus in Graz in 2008 and at the MAST Foundation in
Bologna, Italy in 2014. They are the recipients of the 2008 National Prize for
Restoration from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the 2010 Nike Prize issued
by the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), as well as the Aga Khan Award for
Architecture (2010), the Piranesi Prix de Rome (2011), the European Museum of
the Year Award (2012), the Hannes Meyer Prize (2012), Honorary Fellow of AIA
(2015) and the Alvar Aalto Medal in 2015. Their major works include the Madinat
al-Zahra Museum, the Moritzburg Museum, the San Telmo Museum, the Joanneum
extension in Graz, and the Contemporary Art Centre in Córdoba. Nieto Sobejano
Arquitectos currently have projects in Germany, Spain, Austria, Estonia and
Morocco. Two monographs have been recently published about their work:
"Nieto Sobejano. Memory and Invention" (Hatje Cantz Verlag,
Ostfildern, Germany, 2013) and "Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano.
Architetture" (Mondadori Electa Spa, Milano, Italy, 2014).
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