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Amann Cnovas Maruri

PROJECT FACTS

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| Roof, covering the ruins
p
| View from street, illuminated at dusk

Roof over a Roman Site

Cartagena
This building is essentially a cover protecting the remains of a Roman settlement on the
Molinete Park archeological site in Cartagena. The intervention unifies all the remains in
a single space. The cover also generates a new urban faade in the partition wall. The inner
layer is built with a modular system of corrugated multiwall translucent polycarbonate
sheets. The outer layer, constructed with perforated steel plates, gives a uniform exterior
appearance. Besides the steel structure, the building set includes an elevated walkway
parallel to the street, accessible to disabled visitors. It is a very light structure suspected
from steel beams. Conceived as a translucent cloud with a faceted, partially visible geometry, it makes up the street faade and allows a view of the ruins from three meters high
as this high path set out an overall vision of the Roman remains.

Address: Molinete Park, Cartagena, Spain. Client: Cartagena Puerto de Culturas. Completion: 2011.
Size: 1,847 m 2 . Main materials: steel, polycarbonate sheets. Setting: urban.

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R oof o v er a roman s i te , C arta g ena

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| Walkway, around the ruins
s
| Detail, translucent roof

g
| Site plan
s
| G eneral view