Designed in collaboration with Francisco Gómez

Location: Baena, Córdoba, Spain

Status: built.

Year: 2008 (competition)-2013

Awards 

First Prize (competition),

Félix Hernández Prize 2014: Special Mention

AV Yearbook 2015: selected among 24 best projects in Spain

Developer: Regional Government

Collaborators :Francisco Sepúlveda

Matheus Mehler

Ariane Chiaranda

Francisco Duarte

Ignacio Quijano

Rafael Espejo

Photo: Jesús Granada and Baum

The building is located on a very steep hillside, in which it integrates itself as a landscape element facing the old town. The project creates a façade to the main street from which three volume emerge towards the landscape. These volumes adapt to the geometry of the natural environment that surrounds them, and open themselves to the landscape of Baena like “ojos que miran” (staring eyes). A series of terraces in between generate a sightseeing garden for elderly people, where they will play sports or practice gardening. An architectural object to be seen and to look from.

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