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PKMN [pac-man] architectures: www.pkmn.es

UNDERGROUND, PUBLIC SPACE, POP EXPRESSION

Teruel s underground, as thematic parks as DinA?polis want to spread, is full of discoveries that remind us the lost existence of a powerful life in the origins of the province. It s surprising that we have to return to its deepness to try to reactivate it.

The decision of introducing a big volume of youth activities into the earth, that revitalizes and empowers Teruel s activity, impulses the image which we work in the project. The public space and leisure center project takes a buried Godzilla s expression: a telluric element of contemporary and pop expression.

The big buried volume pushes the earth surface till it brakes and produces a new urban topography. The visitants will settle this surface that becomes into a public square, and they will go down in between the stratums, being entertained by meeting activities, fun and sports. The new activities and their contemporary manifestation, make evident new ways of urban dialogue, especially in a city where history has taken up such an important space. It is the discovery of new possibilities of expression and in a daring appropriation of them, is where we consider that its potencial lies.

Autorship:

Mi5 arquitectos + PKMN [pac-man] architectures

Client:
Urban Teruel. Teruel City Council.

Collaborators:
Architectural Technologists: Mar a del Carmen Nombela and Ana Macipe.
Structure Engineering: Mecanismo Dise o y CA?lculo de Estructuras S.L.
Systems Engineering: Solventa Ingenieros Consultores S.L.
Geotechnics: Geodeser S.A.
Topography: Julia del Toro

Contractors:
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (F.C.C.)

Location:
Plaza Domingo GascA?n. Teruel

Building completion period:
2008-2011

Budget:
Building work: 7.574.459 euros

Area:
Building work: 3.600 m2 urbanization + 3005 m2 built area

Main materials:
Building work: composite steel and concrete structure

Project completion period:
Building work: September 2007 Mars 2008

Building completion period:
Building work: November 2008 December 2011

Photography:

Miguel de GuzmA?n

Javier de Paz