Modular Facade of the CITUR Tourist Reception Center

The main feature of this building is its relationship with the environment, how it recovers the circulation of the intramural rounds that surrounded the city inside the wall, giving continuity to the urban spaces that surround it; the Corral de los Infantes and the widening of Calle Nuño Rasura next to the Colegio de los Niños del Coro. The new connection created becomes the leitmotiv of the project and its materialization in its most distinctive feature.

The building presents its main facade to the new “street” generated, through which the main access is made. It is on this façade where the envelope acquires its contemporary character and poses a rhythmic composition where openings for the passage of light are interspersed. The contrast of the materials used with the same volumetric play on both sides of the “street” stands out, resulting in a unique space, an anteroom to the interior space, which is completed with linear elements like a canopy.

The strategy to carry out systematically and effectively a breakdown that a priori appears as the union of small individual pieces, is the use of a modular systemThe abstraction of a repeated pattern is formalized in the use of mostly identical modules, to offer as a result a continuous skin, where the reading of the module is diluted in the established rhythm. This effect is reinforced by the decision to use boxes that formally enhance the individuality of the blind panels compared to the glass plane of the openings and forging fronts.

Furthermore, the use of the modular system offers the great advantage, in a narrow environment like this, of allowing the Quick and easy installation without the use of scaffolding, and with the work carried out from inside the building.

Award from the Official College of Architects of the Burgos District in the 10th edition 2009-2010