Musac Building Leon, Northwest Spanish Art Centre, Building Project Design, Property Images
MUSAC Leon – Arts Building
Musac Building León, north west Spain design by Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos: Development
25 Mar 2010
MUSAC in León
Location: León, Province of León, northwest Spain.
Design: Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos
On a vast urban plan, MUSAC draws the scenario for art with the same optimistic attitude used by the Roman surveyors to sketch their cities in the landscape.
In contrast to other types of spaces which, in their museum facet, focus on the exhibition of frozen historic collections, MUSAC is a living space that opens its doors to the wide-ranging manifestations of contemporary art. This is an art centre that constructs a set of chessboards on which the action is the protagonist of the space; a structure that develops from an open system, formed by fabric of squares and rhombi, and permitting the construction of a secret geography of memory.
MUSAC is a new space for culture, regarded as something that visualises the connections between man and nature.
A cluster of chained but independent rooms permit exhibitions of differing sizes and types. Each of the jaggedly shaped rooms constructs a continuous yet spatially differentiated area that opens onto the other rooms and courtyards, providing longitudinal, transversal and diagonal views. Five hundred prefab beams enclose a series of spaces that feature systematic repetition and formal expressiveness.
Outside, the public space takes on a concave shape to hold the activities and encounters, embraced by large coloured glass in homage to the city as the place for interpersonal relationships. Inside, a large area of continuous, different spaces, spattered with courtyards and large skylights, shapes an expressive system that speaks to us of the interest shared by architecture and art: the contemporary manifestation of the variable and the perennial, of equality and difference, of universality and transience, an echo of our own diversity and equality as people.
In its size, as a single storey building with white concrete walls and large coloured glazing seen from the outside, MUSAC strives to be a space where art is at ease and helps to erase the boundaries between private and public, between work and leisure and ultimately, between art and life.
The Musac Building, Leon – Building Information
Location: Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, León, Spain
Architects: Luis M. Mansilla y Emilio Tuñón
Client: Gesturcal S.A., Junta de Castilla y León
Collaborators: Luis Díaz-Mauriño, Ainoa Prats, Andrés Regueiro, Jaime Gimeno, Matilde Peralta, Clara Moneo, Teresa Cruz, Oscar F. Aguayo, Gregory Peñate, Katrien Vertenten y Ricardo Lorenzana.
Principal engineerings: J.G. Asociados, Alfonso Gómez Gaite
Construction manager: Luis M. Mansilla, Emilio Tuñón y Andrés Regueiro
Civil engineers: Santiago Hernán, Juan Carlos Corona y Arcadio Conde
Design project date: 2001
Work completed date: 2004
Built area: 10.000 m²
Construction company: Musac de León UTE (FCC/Teconsa)
Musac Building Leon images / information from Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos
Location: Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, León, Spain, southwestern Europe
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