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The Governing Board has given its approval today to the award, through a negotiated procedure, of the 'Drafting service for the basic project of the entire building and the execution project for the construction management of the first phase of the building of the former Provincial Prison of Murcia'.

The contract has fallen to the IH Architects studio and has a price of 222,000 euros, of which 12,000 correspond to the first prize awarded after the contest of ideas.

In this way, they begin to compute the deadlines for the final delivery of the projects, being three months the time for the presentation of the basic and two months for the delivery of the execution project.

The first of them will establish the homogeneity between the two phases: the first, which affects the head of the building, and the second, which includes the back of it.

According to the forecasts, the execution project of phase 1 will be tendered in summer so that the works can be contracted in September, so the works of recovery of the property can begin before the end of the year.

The winning project of the first prize of the ideas contest, 'Muros etéreos', from the IH Arquitectos studio and whose authorship corresponds to Manuel Hernández Jiménez and Alejandro Ibáñez Benzal, will serve as the basis for the drafting of the basic execution project, which has a deadline three months

The proposal of IH Architects is fundamentally about opening the building to the city and connecting it with it, seeking the recovery of the property and the adjacent spaces, with a visual connection and real entrance to the existing courtyards and the creation of permeable elements that replace the enclosure wall.

The proposal includes skylights that provide luminosity, a reconstructed panopticon and a historical memory area where some of the existing cells are maintained.

Prima mainly cultural uses, with a workshop area and establishes multipurpose uses, respecting the architecture of this building of the first order.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia