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Architects: Vaillo + Irigaray Architects
- Area: 2000 m²
- Year: 2012
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Photographs:Rubén Pérez Bescós
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Structure: OPERA Ingeniería, Raúl Escrivá
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Text description provided by the architects. Occidens museum takes place into the Pamplona’s cathedral complex, crossing various spaces of different times: archaeological excavations II c fC-VIIIc aC, Romanesque palace, XI c, Archbishop's Palace XII c, and the gothic constructions of the Archdeacon palace of the XIV-XVI c.
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The Museum is conceived as a narrative project closer to a cinematographic discipline than to the conventional schemes of the museum through a discourse deployed through different frames and different reading levels: signs, images, objects, sounds, text, projections, codes, smells and atmospheres…
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The project enhances the relationship between content-continent, between architecture and art works by devising different atmospheres appropriate to each time and each space.
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The unity of the museum –composed of architectures of different times- is achieved by using a carpet of steel that meanders through the various rooms of millenarian architectures floating between archaic atmospheres without touching the footprints of the past, giving unity to the whole exhibition.
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The project is implemented by a single resource: a carpet of steel that works as a guiding thread of the whole exhibitions its, without touching, winding through the different rooms from different times. A single resource, flexible and ambivalent, is able to realize its potential to generating an iconography able to provide homogeneity to an uneven set in time and space.
A black steel plate 1 cm thick is bent and drilled to become gangway, pavement, bench, lamp, exhibitor… the drilled text sexplain while lighting, guiding and giving content to the travel...
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