Cyber centre Macarena Tres Huertas

The Social Cyber Centre Macarena Tres Huertas competition was organized within the process frame by administrative decentralization and progressive establishment of the so called tele-administration. Off which the city government (EMVISESA) firmly aims to make available its advantages to all citizens. This implicitly demanded a new spatial medium to provide the local inhabitants with the necessary equipment for computing and information technologies.

Chance, necessity and environmental adaptation.
Almost as it happened with Darwingss evolution theory, chance and necessity converged (the demands of City Government and our research) interceded by local determinations: the surrounding characteristics and the restrained economic conditions.

The district Macarena Tres Huertas is characterized by its high density (eight-floor buildings) dwellings blocks supported by pilotis that leave open spaces on the ground floor. This allows for visual transparency and free circulation among the gardens, thus avoiding its perception as an opaque and stagnant space.

Therefore the new Macarena Social - CyberCentre sits in this place, generating visual and physical movement in order to optimize the accessibility to the surroundings paths and open areas.

The ground floor is freed from the programme in order to create a wi-fi plaza below the building. A small access garden, which together with a porch linked to a cafeteria and a multipurpose room, are offered as a neighbourhood wi-fi meeting and leisure room. Over these spaces, arises a volume lined with red lacquered sheets, where computer labs, workshops and offices are placed.

ARCHITECTS/AUTHORS: MEDIOMUNDO arquitectos
MARTA PELEGRÍN+FERNANDO PÉREZ
PROGRAMME: SOCIALCYBERCENTRE
SITE: José Díaz Street. Sevilla
COMPETITION DATE: 2009
RECOGNIZIONS: 1º PRICE
PHASES: 2009 COMPETITION, 2009 EXECUTING PROJECTS, 2010 CONSTRUCTION
contractor: EUROCON S. L. construcciones: CATHEGORY SOCIAL FACILITY
SUPERFICIE: 410 m2
PROMOTOR : Sevilla City Government

Co-Designer Architect :Mario Ortega Gómez (MOG- Arquitectos )
Other contributions: José Antonio Lubiano (cost control) Tedeco Ingenieros (Structure Calculation), Elías Pérez Lema (Installations)
Fabio Orizia Pérez, Raúl Elías Bramón, Silvia Casitas
Consultants: Fabio Orizia Pérez, Raúl Elías Bramón, Silvia Casitas Montero, Ana López Ortego, Harold Guyaux (office team)
Translation: Vincent Morales.

Cyber centre Macarena Tres Huertas by MARTA PELEGRN in Spain won the WA Award Cycle 18. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.