Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos monographic Exhibition ‘Architecture of Synthesis’ at Carlos V Palace in the Alhambra, Granada

PROJECT REPORT

To state that architecture is linked to many other disciplines is as obvious as it is true. Other visual arts, building techniques, urban or environmental problems, social conflicts and economic circumstances converge in architecture, which is why the architect must constantly weigh up the impact that each one of these variables will have on his end product.

This influential nature, which is the main feature of architecture, is in turn at the root of many of its problems. In fact, often one of the aforementioned aspects becomes excessively larger than the rest, and it is not strange to find architectures that favour one of the points of the spectrum. The history of the site, technical or structural aspects, and the assimilation of the urban or the landscape, to name but a few, have almost monopolised a large part of architectural production in different periods during our career as architects.

Nevertheless, we believe that architecture only reaches its zenith when its synthetic character prevails: success is just guaranteed by an agreement between form, construction and use, in other words, a question of ultimately reaching a different and independent reality through the accurate synthesis of all the other disciplines.

As architects, we have always had a respect for the capacity for integration and synthesis of architecture, and so our main goal has been to reach this unitary value. The majority of our projects involve searching for the moment when confusion and ambiguity fade into the background and the elegance of solutions seems to be their inevitability.

We hope that this aim is evident in the documents displayed in this exhibition, and we would very much like for visitors to share this feeling.

MAIN DATA

Client: Ministry of Public Works and Transports of Andalucía Government
Address: C/ Real de la Alhambra, s/n. 18009 Granada, Spain
Typology: Exhibitions
Status: Built

DATES

Design of project: 2002
Construction: 2003
Implementation: 2003

SURFACES
Solar: : 4.045 m²
Main building: 261 m²
Total: 261 m²

TECHNICAL TEAM
Architects:

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos

Collaborators:

Francisco Sánchez, Magdalena Torres, María Arboledas Cique, Santiago Copado

Interiorismo:

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos

Lightning design:

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos

Model:

Jacinto Gómez, Juan de Dios, Luis Montiel, Queipo Maquetas

Photography:

Alfonso Cruz, Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos

Survey:

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos

Contractors:

Gielissen Interiors

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