Museum Memory in Granada by Alberto Campo Baeza

A building that grows around an elliptical courtyard inspired by the Palace of Charles V, and is the base of a vertical bright display that will speak to the city. This is the proposal of Alberto Campo Baeza, an architect who said to want “the most beautiful building” for the Museum of the Memory of Andalusiain Granada.
Conceived as the largest cultural center of the city, the Museum of the Memory of Andalusia has 15 000 m2 and is located near the headquarters of the Caja Granada, his promoter of the new museum. The museum is in line with central headquarters building of the savings bank, a project already completed by the architect Alberto Campo Baeza and completed in 2001. The aim of Campo Baeza has been to establish a dialogue both buildings, but each develops its own personality.
In this case, the proposed building is a “podium” of 3 floors it occupies horizontally a lot of very hilly, matching his top-floor building with the headquarters of Caja Granada. All construction is organized around a central courtyard elliptical, bypassed by a ramp that connects the three levels and creates an interesting tension in space. The dimensions of the elliptical courtyard were taken from the courtyard of the Palacio de Carlos V at the Alhambra.
And to crown the project, as if a door to the city is involved, a large vertical rises to the same height and width to the main building Caja Granada. This vertical wall is covered entirely with large plasma screens that will project images on the highway around Granada, in the form of neon signs inspired by the famous Times Square in New York or Picadilly Circus in London. The new building, quiet in his ways, wants to reflect and communicate a cultural message in the language of the new millennium in which we are immersed.