University Campus of Segovia / Ricardo Sánchez González + José Ignacio Linazasoro Rodríguez

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Text description provided by the architects. The University of Segovia occupies a great lot in the suburbs of the historical city, before occupied by the Barrack of Artillery. It is a place characterized by the absence of public spaces, this project tries to resolve this problem generating a cultural focus, a great covered square which use does not limit itself only to the students and teachers but to the entire neighbourhood.

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Around the mentioned square are placed the classrooms, and in the center, the library, principal cultural reference of the University. This one is formed as a multiple space, constructed inside the global space and consists of a pit on which three suspended cubes contains the reading spaces.

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Outside, the building fragments to be adapted better to the scale of the city, and it is constructed with strong and warm materials, trying that the building reflects a character of public building beyond the requirements that the fashion imposes. With the same idea it is constructed the interior space, a real covered square that is constructed also with materials of the exterior.

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