Mansilla + Tunon: community centre, Lalin, Spain.Mansilla + Tunon's new community centre for the Galician town of Lalin combines a range of municipal functions, from town hall and social work offices, to a library and exhibition space. Aiming to demystify de·mys·ti·fy tr.v. de·mys·ti·fied, de·mys·ti·fy·ing, de·mys·ti·fies To make less mysterious; clarify: an autobiography that demystified the career of an eminent physician. the working of local bureaucracy and encourage public access, the form of the building is consciously anti-monumental, a loose agglomeration ag·glom·er·a·tion n. 1. The act or process of gathering into a mass. 2. A confused or jumbled mass: of circular and cylindrical volumes, clustered around a central roughly circular patio courtyard. In plan it bears a strong resemblance to a complex soap bubble soap bubble An adjective referring to a dilated, smooth-contoured cyst-like or ballooned, occasionally loculated space(s). See Physaliferous Bone radiology An expansile, often eccentric, vaguely trabeculated space with a thin, sclerotic, sharply defined margin, or coloured clouds, with volumes merging and melding into one another. It must be hoped that the social and civic ambitions of making municipal services This article or section deals primarily with the United Kingdom and does not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. more accessible to the public can match the undoubtedly outgoing, touchy-feely quality of the architecture. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This fluid, organic informality marks a new phase of evolution in the work of Mansilla + Tunon. Schooled in the offices of Rafael Moneo José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born May 9, 1937) is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) from which he received his architectural degree in 1961. , their earlier work, such as the Art Museum in Castellon (AR June 2002) and a new music theatre in Leon (AR May 2003), had its roots in traditional Iberian architecture tempered by a decidedly Modernist restraint. This departure from the partnership's more familiar sobriety clearly heralds a more playful, whimsical whim·si·cal adj. 1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary. 2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality. approach, but knowing their concern with materials and how things are made, the built outcome should be no less intriguing. C. S. |
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