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The architect and director of the rehabilitation project of the former Seamen Training Barracks (home of the Faculty of Business of the UPCT), José Manuel Chacón, yesterday gave a lecture and a guided tour of the building for pupils Senior University, attended by over 100 people.
During his lecture, José Manuel Chacón was particularly serious in the history of the building, remembering that it was originally a prison inmates.
He noted that "the challenge was to reverse the use of a building designed to detain, imprison and punish the man, quite the opposite, in an open space where students are educated in freedom."
He also referred to the technical solutions adopted to provide the building with the best conditions for university life, but noted that "the building designed in 1775 has great adaptability to different uses."
Finally noted that the building's location, right in the center of the mouth of the harbor, "is probably the most privileged of the Region of Murcia, for its potential landscape."
Later, they visited some of the units of the building, where students observed, among others, the novelty of the awnings that cover the central courtyard of the building.
Chacon added that "this allows most activities during the year, which added to other architectural elements distributed through this space, artificial turf, fountain, orange trees, palm trees, furniture and cafeteria, the place to raise the status of public square."
Source: UPCT
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