Award / Auszeichnung | 03/2011
Fassa Bortolo International Prize for Sustainable Architecture 2011
Villa Romana La Olmeda
ES-34116 Pedrosa de la Vega, Palencia
Projects by Professionals: Shortlisted
Architektur
Projektdaten
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Gebäudetyp:
Museen, Ausstellungsbauten
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Projektgröße:
keine Angabe
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Status:
Realisiert
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Termine:
Fertigstellung: 01/2009
Projektbeschreibung
The project consists in the protection of an important archaeological find, a Roman Villa of the 4th century a.c. discovered in 1968. In this intervention archaeology is confronted to modernity, and the building is confronted to nature. The magnificent mosaics, hidden for centuries under a rural landscape, are the aim of this museum. The program includes the construction of a roof for the excavations, the exhibition of the mosaics and a study centre for archaeologists. The space of the rooms is built up with a translucent perimeter of metal mesh as a frame for the mosaics that do not interfere with the wide metallic roof that covers the area. These concepts wish to make visitors aware of the unitary character that these fragments of the past had.
The integration of new architecture in the landscape is also an aim of this project, The relation between architecture and open landscape, between the large sized building and the hidden geometry of nature required special sensibility and the building is dimensioned regarding the scale of the nearby groups of poplars.
The extensive occupation of the site and the need to avoid altering it during the construction work, in addition to its location in a rural environment, recommended the use of a prefabricated modular system. The dimensions of the rhomboidal elements ease their transportation and facilitate the on-site assembly of full arches that, with twenty-five meter spans, were raised to their final position and fixed with screws.
The translucent facade in polycarbonate provides homogenous lighting to the interior. A raised floor made of wooden slats with transparent railings joins all the archaeological zones. The outline of the itinerary gets narrow and expands depending on the width of the mosaics to be observed, with a disposition thought for an open display. From the roof hang a series of steel meshes that restore the position of the villa’s original walls, favouring the views of the mosaics in differentiated ambits and showing the villa’s original layout.
Sustainability is achieved by the own concept of the building. Cost was tight and both structure and construction are finishing’s and conditioning. Conditioned areas are only 4% of the total volume. The main air volume of the villa is shaded from the intense summer sun by the double perforated façade that filters light as tree leaves and branches do. And so artificial light is reduced to the essential above the mosaics and public facilities. The cor-ten steel freestanding panels bear the patina of time and permit a natural maintenance of polycarbonate façade and roof. Two ventilated layers that isolate the non air-conditioned interior towards the extreme continental temperatures, compose vaults. Finally water from rain and snow on the large area of the roof, is conducted to the perimeter to the green slope that embraces the building and to the central patio, where the ancient roman pipes eighteen centuries later work again.
The integration of new architecture in the landscape is also an aim of this project, The relation between architecture and open landscape, between the large sized building and the hidden geometry of nature required special sensibility and the building is dimensioned regarding the scale of the nearby groups of poplars.
The extensive occupation of the site and the need to avoid altering it during the construction work, in addition to its location in a rural environment, recommended the use of a prefabricated modular system. The dimensions of the rhomboidal elements ease their transportation and facilitate the on-site assembly of full arches that, with twenty-five meter spans, were raised to their final position and fixed with screws.
The translucent facade in polycarbonate provides homogenous lighting to the interior. A raised floor made of wooden slats with transparent railings joins all the archaeological zones. The outline of the itinerary gets narrow and expands depending on the width of the mosaics to be observed, with a disposition thought for an open display. From the roof hang a series of steel meshes that restore the position of the villa’s original walls, favouring the views of the mosaics in differentiated ambits and showing the villa’s original layout.
Sustainability is achieved by the own concept of the building. Cost was tight and both structure and construction are finishing’s and conditioning. Conditioned areas are only 4% of the total volume. The main air volume of the villa is shaded from the intense summer sun by the double perforated façade that filters light as tree leaves and branches do. And so artificial light is reduced to the essential above the mosaics and public facilities. The cor-ten steel freestanding panels bear the patina of time and permit a natural maintenance of polycarbonate façade and roof. Two ventilated layers that isolate the non air-conditioned interior towards the extreme continental temperatures, compose vaults. Finally water from rain and snow on the large area of the roof, is conducted to the perimeter to the green slope that embraces the building and to the central patio, where the ancient roman pipes eighteen centuries later work again.