AWARDS:
-2021 Competition for the Refurbishment and Extension of the Town Hall of Marchena as nZEB building. First prize
SITUATION: Plaza del Ayuntamiento nº1, Marchena, Sevilla. >>Open in GOOGLE MAPS
DATES: competition (2021), project (2021-2022)
CLIENT: Marchena City Council
ARCHITECTS: José Antonio Carbajal Navarro, Nicolás Carbajal Ballell and Rodrigo Carbajal Ballell
COLLABORATING ARCHITECTS: Fernando Moreno Humanes and José Anelo Romero
BUILDING SURVEYORS: Jesús Bozzo Fernández de Tirso
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Enrique Machuca Tortajada
SERVICES ENGINEER: Manuel Sibón Molinero and Miguel Sibón Roldán
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
–Neutra Nº 19. Neutra – Revista del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Sevilla, 2024. ISSN: 11381507. Dep. Legal: SE-2115-97
The Town Hall of Marchena is a two-storey building with a small semi-basement, identified by the presence of the bell tower and the clock. It presides over the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. The building is not free-standing, but connected, forming the northern vertex of the square by means of an arcade or passageway that extends into a colonnade on this built-up front, used for housing and retail spaces in the ground floor. The first of the extensions to the town hall is planned for that ground floor, in a space previously occupied by a bank, to mitigate the significant lack of surface area and comfort of its workspaces. A second extension with a new built volume is planned for calle Coullaut Valera, on a free area provided by the pavement and the removal of the current transformer substation, which will be relocated inside the building.
The rearrangement of its interior spaces allows for the creation of a lobby in the central section, which connects the two access levels (from the square and from the aforementioned Calle Coullaut Valera). This ground floor is completed with the most frequented public service areas and the Treasury, Contracting and Intervention areas. A double-boarding lift connects the two levels of the ground floor, the first floor and the semi-basement, making the building fully accessible. The first floor houses the Assembly Hall, the offices of the Mayor’s Office, a meeting multi-purpose room and offices for the political groups. On the other hand, the ground floor extension will be used for the Town Planning area, while the new volume on the back street will house the Human Resources section and, on the first floor, the Secretary’s Office.
The new built volume forms a white prism of greater height than the existing building. Both its design and the design of the contacts with the refurbished one aim to clearly identify the new construction and the continuity of the ledges of the existing volumes.
Finally, a modification of the building’s access from the square is proposed, creating a podium that will house the masts for the institutional flags and will allow accessibility from the square itself and from Licenciado Luis Camacho Carrasco street by means of ramps.