Edificio de servicios generales para la Universidad de Extremadura, Mérida, Spain (1999-2001)

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• Fonds: Ábalos&Herreros fonds, 1920-2009
•    Series: Architectural projects, 1953-2009
•      Project: Edificio de servicios generales para la Universidad de Extremadura, Mérida, Spain (1999-2001), 1999, 2001

People

• Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)
• Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
• Iñaki Abalos (architect)
• Juan Herreros (architect)
• Ángel Jaramillo Sánchez (architect)
• Uriel Fogué (collaborator)
• Renata Sentkiewicz (collaborator)
• Jacob Hense (collaborator)
• OMA, Agustí Obiol y Luis Moya (structural engineering firm)
• Abalos & Herreros (role unspecified)
• Javier Manso (role unspecified)
• Maria Ángelez López (role unspecified)
• Miguel Lázaro (surveyor)
• Extremadura (Spain). Consejería de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología (client)

Title

Edificio de servicios generales para la Universidad de Extremadura, Mérida, Spain (1999-2001)

Dates of creation

1999, 2001

Level of archival description

Project

Extent and Medium

• 91 printouts
• 12 photographic materials
• 3 reprographic copies

Scope and Content

The project series documents the design and construction of the general services building for the Universidad de Extremadura. In 1999, Abalos & Herreros in collaboration with Fomento won first prize at a competition held for enterprises. The firm identified this project as number 117.

“Giving the hard climatic conditions, the building is wrapped in an artificial and natural dual filter of adjustable lattices surrounded by a ring a trees (Ginkos Bilobas) […] On the roof, two turrets house relaxation rooms for the teaching staff, rooms that open onto a garden surrounded by a training track, thus creating an open-air area with views over the lowlands of the [River] Guadiana and the city” (ARCH270971).

In the documentation, the project is often referred to as “Edificio administrativo y de nuevas titulaciones de la Universidad de Extremadura” or “Administration building and new graduate facilities for the University of Extremadura”.

The firm worked with Ángel Jaramillo, Uriel Fogué, Renata Sentkiewicz, Jacob Hense and Obiol y Moya for the account of the Consejería de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología, Junta de Extremadura.

Documenting the project are presentation and working drawings, and photographic materials.

Reference Number

AP164.S1.1999.D4

Arrangement

Materials in this project series were kept in their original order.

Location

Mérida Spain

Language of material

Spanish

Related units of description

• Note that there are additional design development and presentation drawings, and 254 photographic materials related to this project arranged in series AP164.S2 and AP164.S3. See files ARCH277413, ARCH278445, ARCH278460, ARCH278485, ARCH268498, ARCH268541, ARCH268546, ARCH268723, ARCH268725, ARCH268880, ARCH270962, ARCH270963, ARCH270966, ARCH270971, ARCH270973, ARCH270974, ARCH270975, ARCH270976, ARCH270977, ARCH270979, ARCH271331, ARCH274204, and ARCH274217. Other related material is also found in project series AP164.S1.1999.D8, AP164.S1.1999.D9, and AP164.S1.2003.D13.

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  • Reference Number: ARCH267307
  • Title: Site plan (alignments and volumes), access floor, sections and elevations
  • Dates of creation: July 1999
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Stage and Purpose:

  • presentation drawing (proposal)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 2 electrophotographic prints, 1 collage (electrophotographic prints with adhesive tape)

  Dimensions:

  sheets: 91,3 × 64,2 cm

  Location:

  Mérida Spain

  Credit line:

  Abalos & Herreros fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Iñaki Ábalos et Juan Herreros/
  Gift of Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
  

  Folder Number:

  164-020-002

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  • Reference Number: ARCH275366
  • Title: Working drawings and views of the site, Edificio de servicios generales para la Universidad de Extremadura, Mérida, Spain
  • Dates of creation: 1999, 2001
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
  • Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)

  Description:

  Portfolio's title: 117, Edificio administrativo y nuevas titulaciones - Univ. Extremadura, Merida

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 File

  Extent and Medium:

  • 91 printouts, 12 chromogenic colour prints (including 2 photomontages), 3 reprographic copies

  Dimensions:

  portfolio: 36,7 × 51,5 × 1,8 cm

  Physical Description:

  - Some plans are folded.

  Inscription:

  inscribed and labelled

  Location:

  Mérida Spain

  Credit line:

  Abalos & Herreros fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Iñaki Ábalos et Juan Herreros/
  Gift of Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros