Congress Palace and Hotel in Palma de Mallorca / Francisco Mangado

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  • Architects: Francisco Mangado
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Juan Rodríguez
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Parklex Prodema, Sika, BANDALUX, Composites Gurea, Grúas Pol, Hilti, Humiclima, Industrias Laguna Belvis, Mairata, Mavida Elements, Naumetal, Otis, Puertas Paver, Sucomaga, Trox
  • Project Manager: Francisco Mangado
  • Collaborator Architects: Idoia Alonso Barberena, Antonio Aller, Maria João Costa, Almudena Fiestas, Ana Muñiz. João Gois, Sergio Rio Tinto, Edurne Pradera, Isabel Oyaga, Sofia Cacchione, Itziar Etayo, Aintzane Gazteiu-Iturri, Andreas Bovin, Richard Královic, Maria Manero, Wojciech Sumlet, Cesar Martín. arqs.
  • Structural Engineering: NB 35 S.L., ing.
  • Instalations Engineering: Francisco Mangado
  • Acoustics Engineering: Higini Arau, ing
  • Rigger: Pedro Legarreta
  • Contractor: Acciona Construcción S.A.
  • Woodworking: Blasco Construcciones en Madera, S.L.
  • Steelworking: Callfer, S.A.
  • Civil Engineering: Nechi Ingenieria
  • Client: Palau de Congressos de Palma de Mallorca
  • Project Years: 2006-2007
  • Congress Palace And Parking's Area: 37.000 m²
  • Hotel's Area: 17.700 m²
  • City: Palma
  • Country: Spain
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Text description provided by the architects. The project rests on the idea that to work on a lot that is rich and suggestive in its being difficult, such as the one we have here, is to draw up a new urban ‘outline’ for the city. The irregular geometry of the narrow and elongated lot, forming a seafront of nearly 350 meters, refers more to the idea of an urban boundary of huge dimensions that must accommodate a major project with a complex and diverse program.

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The building looks toward the sea, and this seaward looking is summed up in a thick facade—five meters wide and erected with techniques of naval engineering—that besides keeping out direct sunlight contains the stairs and other elements connecting the different spaces and programs. As you go up the stairs, you see the sea through huge glass panes.

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This facade is like a town wall with a path, dense but also open, and in its thickness, through ambiguous spaces that cannot definitively be considered interior or exterior, it is confused with the promenade itself.

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The ‘alter ego’ is the north facade, whose thickness is formed by the building’s more ‘server’ spaces. The result is a comb-shaped double scheme: in functional terms, public to the south and private to the north.

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Ground Floor
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Inside, different congress and exhibition halls follow one another. These are large but volumetrically expressive spaces, with voids around them that have hanging platforms and catwalks for looking out to the exterior.

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Section: Minor Auditorium
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On the raised floor, connected to the hotel by a footbridge that serves to unify the complex, are the more everyday uses, the smaller convention rooms, and restaurants, along with a large terrace that, viewed in perspective, can be taken to be a prolongation of the sea.

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Cite: "Congress Palace and Hotel in Palma de Mallorca / Francisco Mangado" [Palacio de Congresos y Hotel en Palma de Mallorca / Francisco Mangado] 27 Apr 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/893360/palacio-de-congresos-y-hotel-en-palma-de-mallorca-francisco-mangado> ISSN 0719-8884

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