Prototype of Churches, Pamplona
Vaillo + Irigaray  

Prototype of Churches, Pamplona

Vaillo + Irigaray  


Antonio Vaillo and Juan Luis Irigaray’s proposal has been selected as winner of the competition called by the Pamplona City Hall to build two churches for the city with a prototype that is inspired in the building traditions from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries – when the small churches crowning the mountains of the different towns of Navarre shared similar characteristics such as the crossed-shaped plan, the half-hexagon shaped apse or the porticos in the south entrances. This time, however, the team has designed a contemporary prototype structured by a sequence of buttresses which are made with bricks from the local quarries. These pieces vanish in the cornfield due to their similar color, creating a space with a single image both in the interior and in the exterior...[+]


Prototipo de iglesias, Pamplona
Prototype of Churches, Pamplona

ArquitectosArchitects
Antonio Vaillo i Daniel, Juan Luis Irigaray Huarte, D. Galar, J. Vélaz

Colaboradores Collaborators
J. Gil, L. Astrain, I. Beguiristain, A. Izkue, J. C. de la Iglesia, A. Álvarez, O. Martínez, I. Franco

ConsultoresConsultants
J. Visiers (aparejador quantity surveyor), R. Escrivá (estructura structural engineering) —Opera Ingeniería—, M. Zabalza (maquetas models) —DECONA—, Cementos Portland Valderrivas (hormigón concrete)