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The Architects' Association welcomes from today until Friday the exhibition with the winning proposals of the ideas contest.

José Ballesta: "The spaces of the Old Prison can be used at different times of the day and by people of any age group, achieving a high social profitability that opens this space to the city".

The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the councilor for Development, Roque Ortiz, the president of the Association of Architects of the Region, Rafael Pardo Prefasi, and the finalist architects of the preliminary project for the rehabilitation and putting into use of the Old Prison , presented today the three award-winning proposals of the contest, which will be exhibited at the College of Architects where they can be visited until next Friday.

"We have about two and a half years defining and defending a city project for Murcia, a luminous, participatory and transparent project that is respectful of the past, but that projects itself into the future and returns to Murcia what is theirs", said the mayor, who noted that "the spirit of the award-winning architectural solutions fits that city project that we want for Murcia."

Thus, the principles that govern these drafts are that "the spaces of the Old Prison be used at any time of the day and by people of any age group, reaching a high social profitability that opens this space to the city," said José Ballesta , who valued that "these are realistic proposals and with a viable subsequent execution and management, as well as an adjusted and assumable budget".

In this regard, he added that "these principles also govern other major projects of transformation of the city that Murcia will soon be able to see and enjoy: in a few days we will begin the pedestrianization of Alfonso X El Sabio, which connects from the geographical point of view with the Old Prison.

With respect to 'Murcia Río', the first gardens and contact spaces between El Malecón and El Segura are already underway and in execution.

The master plan for the recovery project of the San Esteban field is in its terminal phase and the Committee of Experts has already been set up and is interacting with the professionals to provide this project with all the quality and excellence ".

For his part, Pardo Prefasi stressed that the final projects are "very valuable solutions that will enrich the city of Murcia" and stressed that "the ideas contests provide transparency and allow any architect, including the youngest, can be presented, facilitating access under equal conditions ", so the president of COAMU wanted to" thank the City of Murcia that has opted for quality and transparency. "

The winning project of the first prize of the ideas contest, 'Muros etéreos', of the IH architects 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 next step will be to contract the execution project, giving the final form to the intervention that will be carried out in the building and that will be enriched with the proposals of the City Council, through a program of needs and uses open to the participation of groups of the area of culture and knowledge.

This afternoon the exhibition of the awarded proposals opens

The official opening of the exhibition with the winning proposals will take place this afternoon at 8:00 pm, at the College of Architects, "an organization that has watched over the pursuit of excellence in the development of this project to transform the city," he said. José Ballesta

The exhibition can be visited until next Friday.

Three interesting and successful approaches

By unanimous vote of the jury, the 'Ethereal Walls' of Manuel Hernández and Alejandro Ibáñez have received the first prize, worth 12,000 euros.

The second prize went to the project 'Todos a la Jail' by Murcia architects Francisco Javier Zueco Sánchez, Lorenzo Tomás, Francisco Javier Zueco Royo and María Dolores Martínez (6,000 euros).

Finally, the third selected proposal has been 'The crystal cell' of the architect Carlos Campos, of Valencia, and Emilio Sánchez, of Castilla La Mancha (3,000 euros).

The proposal of IH Architects is fundamentally about revealing the building to the city and connecting it with it.

Without losing sight of what has been a prison building, the project seeks the recovery of the building and adjacent spaces, with a visual connection and real entry to existing courtyards and the creation of permeable elements that replace the enclosing wall.

It proposes skylights that provide luminosity, a reconstructed panopticon and an area of ​​historical memory where some of the existing cells are kept rehabilitated.

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

The proposal 'Everyone in prison', has been described by the jury as "an interesting project with good ordering of the building and correct solution to the panopticon, although it does not maintain in its integrity the fundamental elements of the building with grade 2. It realizes a contemporary intervention of great formal force in the central staircase that configures and defines the interior space.

At the same time it proposes a very clean and flexible functional distribution proposing cultural uses.

The proposal includes "patios that provide illumination to the interior of the main body, with a subtle exterior presence, reconstructing the central dome with its original shape".

The jury highlights "the very successful integration with the environment by opening the wall with an urban solution of great interest that matches the contemporary formal solution with the existing closure factory and makes a proposal for the treatment of the urban environment that connects the exterior spaces".

Finally, 'The crystal cell' presents "an interesting architectural solution with adequate interior layout and configuration of the spaces", offers a current architecture and adds value to the building as a great opportunity for the city.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia