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The project addresses the whole complex, including the future of the Velarde Palace and the Casa Oviedo-Portal. Only through such a comprehensive approach can the optimal functioning of an institution as important as the Fine Arts Museum of Asturias be guaranteed. With this idea as starting point, the project contemplates raising an altogether new building within the urban complex. That is, the sequence of existing facades around is taken as a contextual condition, and these facades take on the role of an urban ‘backdrop’, unquestioned, against which to erect a new building with a facade of its own; a facade that reveals itself, is discerned, through naked, totally frameless openings. In the exterior it will be possible to complete a large luminous construction, glazed and full of reflections, that will project outward and superpose itself on urban history, giving the new Fine Arts Museum of Asturias a bold but complex image. The other fundamental element for explaining the building’s relationships with the context is the inner block courtyard. Through luminous glazed catwalks, the courtyard becomes a place for encounters and an element connecting the various buildings of the museum complex. A look at the new floor plan throws light on the importance of the courtyards, the voids, in shaping the entire complex. Both the block courtyard – adequately upgraded and incorporated into the organization of the complex – and the covered court of the new main edifice, which acts as a great skylight articulating and structuring access points and circulation elements, becoming a reference space for the entire complex, are key parts of a proposal that conceptually and physically expands the current premises made up of the Velarde Palace and the Casa Oviedo-Portal.
MANGADO y ASOCIADOS is an office of architecture, that provides also services in design, urbanism and public equipment developments. It is lead by FRANCISCO MANGADO ( architect Int FRIBA) and its projects are developed mostly by architects structured and organized by strategic and dinamic teams of professionals. The principal work is based on public buildings, such as cultural, sports and working constructions and infrastructures. Since the 90’s MANGADO ARCHITECTS has an active presence in national and international competitions and exhibitions where the research and reflection of not only isolated buildings, but at the same time urban ideas and the criticism of the public space are also constantly present. Categories susch as space ( private and public dimensions ), materiality, urban context, topography and techtonics are the key tools for Francisco Mangado and its architects in order to understand the process of architecture and its responses for the contemporary users. The integration of the desgin phases and the on-going works under construction are always feeding new perspectives to the team and offering new tools for theory and practice.
Francisco Mangado, director of Mangado y Asociados SL has been practicing professionally since 1981, the same year he received a degree in architecture from the University of Navarre. Since then he has been an extraordinary professor in the same school. HE has been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architecture program at the Yale University School of Architecture, Bair Visiting Professor at the Schoolf of Architecture of Cornell University and visiting professor at l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He has received, among other awards, the Natio- nal Spanish Architecture Prize in 2009. In addition, he received the “Giancarlo Ius” Gold Medal given by the UIA ( International Union of Architects) and Barbara Cappochin Prize. In 2011 he has been recognized with the Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA and with the AIA Honorary Fellowship given by the American Institute of Architects AIA. He received the International Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum and the European Centre for Architecture and Design in 2011 and 2012. He has designed numerous and recognized pro- jects, botn in Spain and abroad. A number of his work has been published as monographs and various articles in several specialized magazines. Since 2010, a particular travelling exhibition of his work has visited many european cities like Berlin, Oporto, Madrid, Lausanne, Pamplona and Paris, showing a selection of his projects through models and interactive videos. He is the founder of “Fundation Arquitectura y Sociedad (Architecture and Society Foundation).
