Publication: The module and the system: functional grids at the Hidrola complex in Escombreras
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2023
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CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
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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).
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escombreras; Fernando Urrutia; functional grid; Power plant
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Martinez, P. G., & Castillo, J. V. (2023). The module and the system: functional grids at the Hidrola complex in Escombreras. INFORMES DE LA CONSTRUCCION, 75(572).