Architects: Losada García Arquitectos
Area: 1220 m²
Year: 2015
Photography: Miguel de Guzmán
Lead Architects: Ramiro Losada, Alberto Garcia
Collaborators: Lucía Bentué, Toni Gelabert, Adriana Marina Melchor Quesada
Construction Engineering: Óscar González
Structure and Facilities: Valladares
Contractor: Dragados
Structure: Reco SL
MEP, HVAC, Sanitation, Plumbing, and PCI: Render Industrial Group SL
Client: City Navalmoral de la Mata and Cáceres Provincial Council
City: Navalmoral de la Mata
Country: Spain
Cultural Center La Gota – Tobacco Museum designed by Losada García Arquitectos in Navalmoral de la Mata, Cáceres, has transformed the urban landscapes by integrating exhibition spaces with local cultural identity. Completed in 2015, this hybrid building serves as a new urban center, featuring temporary spaces, a permanent exhibition for painter Sofia Feliu, and a Tobacco Museum.
The Cutural Center La Gota aims to creates a new urban focus in Navalmora, showcasing the town’s identity. The name originates from an old building on the same site from the 1930s, designed to address child malnutrition through the “Drop of Milk” initiative.
The building features exhibition spaces, a permanent display for painter Sofia Feliu, and a Tobacco Museum. The design draws inspiration from the tobacco plant’s structure, promoting equality and diversity. The building’s core support vertical communication, with floors appearing as plants of equal size and shape but varied heights and characters.
Inside, the building replicates the light atmosphere of tobacco drying structure with a ceramic fabric inspired by traditional bricks. Light filters through facade openings, creating a dematerialized appearance with refined geometries.
The post-tensioned structure allows large spans and reduced slab edges, enhancing concrete bearing capacity and reducing deformation and cracking, thereby increasing lifespan and efficiency.
The five floors are staggered, creating the effect of boxes stacked upon each other.
The facade consists of a double skin with a glass wall and ceramic fabric named FLEXBRICK, creating a thermal space hat regulates heat and directs views. This facade resembles traditional tobacco drying buildings.
A green wall extends from the Tobacco Museum to the exterior, featuring regional vegetation and providing cooling in summer, leading to energy savings. The building’s design creates a public square between it and an adjacent structure, flanked by the green wall and ceramic mesh.
The facade is an industrialized flexible ceramic system covering the building with patterns created by varying light and darkness. The system uses braided steel bars with ceramic pieces, providing flexibility and variability.
The ceramic facade forms modules that compose an outer drawing, contemporary to traditional tobacco drying buildings.
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Address: Antonio M’ Concha Street, Navalmoral de la Mata, Cáceres 10300, Spain
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