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The building will be "austere and multifunctional", highlights the rector |
The Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) has today awarded the awards of the ideas competition for the new headquarters of its Higher Technical School of Architecture and Building (ETSAE), whose winning projects have been presented by their authors and are exposed in the classroom of Ideation of the ETSAE until June 15.
The new building that will be built from the end of this year instead of the workshops and the library will be "austere and multifunctional", according to the UPCT rector, Alejandro Díaz, underlining that "the Financial sustainability was a fundamental premise of the project ", as well as" doing it well, through a contest of ideas to which more than 60 projects were presented ", he recalled.
Precisely, the call for an open competition has been explicitly praised during the ceremony by the Dean of the College of Architects, Rafael Pardo Prefasi, and the vice president of the Association of Quantity Surveyors, José Bautista.
"We needed this building because now we are disseminated in five", has argued the director of the School of Architecture and Building, Carlos Parra.
The project "responds to the just and necessary desire of the ETSAE to have a new headquarters where to develop their training and research", added the rector.
The winning design, whose author, the prestigious Emilio Tuñón, has explained to the dozens of students who have packed the ETSAE degree room, has three heights, integrates a mixed structure of prefabricated concrete and glass enclosures and creates a public space on the upper deck, providing a square in height.
This building will house all the classrooms, workshops and laboratories of the School.
It will also host the CRAI-Library, the Campus cafeteria, an assembly hall and various work rooms.
"It will be the lung of the Campus of Alfonso XIII" and an "emblematic building for Cartagena", in words, respectively, of the Rector and the General Director of Universities, Juan Monzó.
Tuñón will complete his performance with a rehabilitation of the current building of the School of Architecture and Building, which will house all administrative services and offices.
The work will be financed with FEDER funds of the European Union and own funds of the UPCT and contributions from the CARM.
The total investment is close to six million euros.
The second prize went to the Pereda Pérez studio and the third prize to the architect Luis Martínez Santamaría.
Source: UPCT
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