Architects: Muñoz Miranda Architects
Location: Guardia Civil Guardia Civil Puesto
de Murtas, Calle del Atalayón, 18490Murtas, Granada, SpainArchitect In Charge: Alejandro
Muñoz Miranda, Jesús M. Muñoz MirandaCivil Engineer: Pedro
A. González GarridoArea: 82.0 sqmYear: 2014
From thearchitect. A lot
that does not exist. A pine forest along the hillside at the top of Murtas. An
existing retaining wall constructed in an Alpujarra´s vernacular way, using
local rough stones. The program seeks a room to hold a wake over. A large stone
lintel beam supported by a large HEB creates an access space threshold. Once
inside, you think of a concave space (cavus-cave) that connects earth with sky.
Two concave rooms, one public and one more private. The light as an ontological
reflection of each space. In the public room a greater amount of light
surrounds and envelops, in the innermost chamber fleeting light slides and
moves. The midday sun forms an eclipse as continuous ring drawn together by
direct and projected light, where land (material light projected onto the
curved wall) and sky (immaterial direct light / clarity) engage in that
particular magic moment to let out the soul in its ascent to heaven by the time window of the eclipse generated daily.
