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    The module and the system: functional grids at the Hidrola complex in Escombreras
    (CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2023) García Martínez, Pedro; Vela Castillo, José; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    This paper presents a detailed analysis of a building as unique as it is unknown or forgotten: the thermal power station built by Hidroeléctrica Española in Escombreras,Cartagena,in the mid-1950s,designed by the architect Fernando Urrutia and the engineer Carlos Jaureguizar. And it does so from a double point of view: on the one hand,by contextualising the building within the industrial and architectural context of the time,to which it responds with a perfect modernity that is at the same time pragmatic and monumental. On the other hand,by focusing on a meticulous constructive,geometric and aesthetic analysis of perhaps its most unique element,the very ingenious functional grid (as the architect calls it) that defines its facades with a prefabricated modular skin that gives it a unique personality and a disturbing contemporaneity. © 2023 CSIC. Este es un artículo de acceso abierto distribuido bajo los términos de la licencia de uso y distribución Creative Commons Reconocimiento 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0).