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The Mayor presented the rehabilitation plan and urban integration of the property, in which the citizen and expert involvement is an essential tool.
The Department of Culture has designed a comprehensive consultation program that will culminate with the publication of the final project will convert the old building into a space of social, cultural and recreational.
A participatory process that will include meetings with professional associations, business associations and the third sector, universities, roundtables and mediated visits, concluding with a contest of ideas and choice of the final project is opened
It has begun the countdown to open the Old City Jail.
But it will not be done anyway.
The aim is not only to enable a knowledgeable building and container activity, but also as a new urban space by removing the perimeter fence and incorporating their yards into the urban fabric.
The Mayor, Miguel Angel House, this morning the rehabilitation plan and urban integration of the property and its transformation into center of art and culture, in which civic and professional involvement is an essential tool.
The goal is to turn it into an "area of ​​social, cultural and recreational character", respecting the facade and structure, and put to meet "the demands and cultural activities of the city," said House.
In addition to meeting the needs of the neighborhood in which it is located, the project aspires to be a center of culture for the city of Murcia and its environment.
The Town Hall, owned since autumn 2013- can provide multiple use and to select a successful extensive consultation with professional bodies, trade associations and third sector, universities, etc. open
concluding with a contest of ideas.
Among the possibilities of transformation of the former prison are, among others,
- Creation of a new cultural model;
a mall culture where culture and leisure coexist without consumption.
- Promote awareness, access and training the public in relation to the current and contemporary art in its various manifestations emerging and being a vehicle for social communication.
- Being a multidisciplinary infrastructure.
- Provide multidisciplinary workshops, dedicated to music, film, literature, performing arts, visual arts, etc., organize open to artistic and creative experimentation exhibitions cycles,
- Create a space dedicated to the exhibition and research of video art, sounds and contemporary music and the media.
- Create a new library and documentation center.
- Create a space dedicated to own productions: residences (local, national and international artists) and workspaces.
- Addressing those new artistic expressions and difficult to spread that are out of traditional commercial circuits.
To determine which priority order is given to the building, the Department of Culture has designed a model citizen and professional involvement that has already begun this month and will culminate with the publication of the project.
The first of the three phases correspond to the exploratory level.
Already launched a website (www.lacarcelvieja.es) and in the coming days meetings with universities, professional, business and third sector of all cultural and creative sectors associations will be held, and be prepared document consultation for citizens.
Then there will be the descriptive phase, in which the following steps will be taken:
- Form a committee of choice of projects
- Create different tables of participation and working roundtables.
or Roundtable historical heritage in the city center.
or Roundtable.
Recycle City.
Occupying urban skeletons.
or table creation.
Collective architectures.
Network of people and groups interested in the participatory development of the urban environment.
Roundtable or cultural managers.
or Roundtable on site.
o Creation of networking between different universities and users.
or visits to the Old Jail mediated (inscriptions on the website).
- Development of the third report
- Form a proposal by the other users from the various advisory nodes.
It starts after the third and final phase, which will end with the opening of a contest of ideas and publication of the final project.
Keep the outside and bring inside
The proposed integration and rehabilitation Jail will follow current architectural trends, while respecting its previous character-at maintaining its volumetric image composition and externally, although it was adapted for a dual purpose: the urban integration of the set of continuity and the necessary space, equipment and technical adequacy of the interior space to carry out various activities.
Thus, the reform involves the intervention both inside and outside the building.
One of the main objectives of urban planning is the incorporation of outside space Jail the adjoining urban space by eliminating the perimeter fencing.
As a result an area of ​​about 1,800 square meters and two elevated tanks will be incorporated.
Architecturally, the actions to be performed is the comprehensive rehabilitation of the building while maintaining its volume and composition of facades, so that the original image and character of the set is maintained, while inside it is possible resorting to empty and proceed to new more suitable to the new uses spatial distribution.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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