María Lejárraga Public Library, Granada, Spain, Modern Andalusia architecture photos, Spanish building design project
María Lejárraga Public Library in Granada
21 April 2024
Design: Rubens Cortés Arquitectos
Location: Vega de Granada, in the Ventorrillo de Cullar Vega, province of Granada, Andalusia, southern Spain
Photos by Javier Callejas Sevilla
María Lejárraga Public Library, Spain
The tobacco drying rooms are agricultural buildings in the Vega of Granada. The development of this typology is clearly associated with the cultivation of tobacco introduced into Granada’s agriculture at the end of the 19th century. Tobacco cultivation became more important during the 1940s. Then there was a progressive recession, which ended with the crises of the last decade of the 1990s, when it stopped being a subsidized crop.
Today only some areas continue to be dedicated to this activity. However, the tobacco drying rooms continue to form part of the landscape of Granada and are the most recognizable trace of the city’s rural history. The decline of agricultural production has caused a progressive occupation and transformation of the rural landscape into an urban one. During this long process, most of the drying rooms have disappeared; others have been absorbed by the growth of the urban fabric in a similar way to that occupied by this rehabilitation project.
In the outskirts of Granada, a rehabilitated tobacco drying room houses the new Ogíjares Public Library. The project consists of two parts: the rehabilitation of an existing dryer and its expansion. Urban planning regulations only allowed the construction of a reversible or removable volume. The rest of the spaces necessary for the library would have to be arranged below the level of the park.
The fact that part of the Library had to be buried improved the bioclimatic behavior of the building and reduced its physical presence, minimizing its environmental impact on the park. However, creative solutions had to be found to naturally illuminate the spaces below ground level.
The reading room is resolved by a wooden structural section. Floor, wall and ceiling form a lattice ring that rests on concrete walls. The wooden structure is made of 162 different porticos that go from a square section to a 5-sided one, which is the one attached to the rehabilitated dryer. This structure is made up of pieces of wood measuring 150 x 45 mm that alternate with others measuring 90 x 90 mm, in which glass of different dimensions is integrated. Apparently, the composition of the façade does not maintain any formal order, although it is closely appreciated and a structural wooden portico is observed every 95 cm.
Spanish:
Los secaderos de tabaco son construcciones agrícolas de la Vega granadina. El desarrollo de esta tipología está claramente asociado al cultivo de tabaco introducido en la agricultura de Granada a finales del S. XIX. El cultivo de tabaco adquirió más importancia durante los años 40. Después hubo una recesión progresiva, qué terminó con las crisis de la última década de los 90, cuando dejó de ser un cultivo subvencionado. Hoy en día sólo algunas zonas siguen dedicándose a esta actividad. Sin embargo, los secaderos de tabaco siguen formando parte del paisaje de Granada y son la huella más reconocible de la historia rural de la ciudad. La decadencia de la producción agrícola ha causado una progresiva ocupación y transformación del paisaje rural en urbano. Durante este largo proceso la mayoría de los secaderos has desaparecido; otros han sido absorbidos por el crecimiento del tejido urbano de modo similar al que ocupa este proyecto de rehabilitación.
En los alrededores de Granada un secadero de tabaco rehabilitado acoge la nueva Biblioteca Pública de Ogíjares. El proyecto consta de dos partes: la rehabilitación de un secadero existente y su ampliación. La normativa urbanística permitía únicamente la construcción de un volumen reversible o desmontable. El resto de los espacios necesarios para la biblioteca tendrían que disponerse por debajo de la cota del parque.
El hecho de que parte de la Biblioteca tuviese que estar enterrada mejoró el comportamiento bioclimático del edificio y redujo la presencia física del mismo minimizando su impacto medioambiental en el parque. Sin embargo, hubo que buscar soluciones creativas para iluminar naturalmente los espacios por debajo de rasante.
La sala de lectura está resuelta mediante una sección estructural de madera. Suelo, pared y techo forman un anillo entramado que apoya sobre muros de hormigón. La estructura de madera esta realizada mediante 162 pórticos diferentes que van de una sección cuadrada a una de 5 lados, que es la que se adosa al secadero rehabilitado. Esta estructura se compone de piezas de madera de 150 x 45 mm que se alternan con otras de 90 x 90 mm, en las cuales se integran vidrios de diferentes dimensiones. Aparentemente, la composición de la fachada no guarda ningún orden formal, aunque sí se aprecia ésta detenidamente se observa un pórtico de madera estructural cada 95 cm.
María Lejárraga Public Library in Granada, Spain – Property Information
design: Rubens Cortés Arquitectos – https://rubenscortes.es/
Location: Vega de Granada, Ventorrillo de Cullar Vega, province of Granada, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain
Completion date: 2011
Building levels: 3
Photography: Javier Callejas Sevilla
María Lejárraga Public Library, Granada, Spain images / information received 210424 from Rubens Cortés Arquitectos
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