Visitors Center

The new visitor centre reuses four prefabricated modules that regional goverment had acquired and used years ago as installation support to another equipment in a natural space.

In this new site it will has the character of permanent construction. To prevent the provisional aspect of containers, we designed a coating, in the form of lattice, ribbons of treated wood of pine, outwardly covering the whole.

Facts:
Owner: Junta de Andalucía (Regional Goverment)
Date of completion: 2015
Cost: 250.000 €
Architecs: Manuel Gómez Viveros, Santiago Matute Díez (proyect), Ayerbe Recco Arquitectos (construction management)
Collaborator: Narciso Iscar Oliver, Technical architec
Constructor: Tragsa
Phographs: © 2015 Ayerbe Recco Arquitectos

The programme is simple in line with less than two hundred square meters of the building. Access is by a covered porch, then goes to the space dedicated to reception and shop, and through it, to the exhibition and interpretive room. A small core of toilets is annex to the porch. The entrance ramp, slightly oversized, tries to bring a larger scale to the small building and create a link with the environment, also functionally, to incorporate a volume of wood as waiting bench.