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Architects: Alejandro Sánchez García - Taller 6A
- Area: 600 m²
- Year: 2010
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Photographs:Jaime Navarro
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Text description provided by the architects. The building, personal library of Jose Luis Martinez, is a conceptual replica of the diplomat’s house and studio. The project reveals itself sequentially on the basis of two halls and a double-height mezzanine floor.
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A glass tower serves as a staircase and as a translucent, exhibition space. Both halls, connected at the perimeter and via both stairways, are lined in wood and bookshelves that run from floor to ceiling and generate a double reading in both vertical and horizontal directions.
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The steel structure, mounted on the essence of the original construction by omitting the ceiling.
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