Spanish practice Andres Jaque Arquitectos has designed a great renovation in Plasencia. He transformed an old and abandoned seminary into a residence for former priests and students.
The renovated site is currently comprised of 21 individual flats, 6 double flats, 4 handicapped adapted common baths, 3 technical premises, 2 visit rooms, 2 medical attention rooms, 2 special attention rooms, 1 residence for nuns, 1 chapel, 1 oratory, 1 morgue, 1 parking, 1 dining room, 1 kitchen, 1 vestibule, 1 games room, 1 gymnasium, 1 library, and 1 gurugú, laundry.
To redesign the site, Andres based the renovation project upon the Catholic Church structures, which was defined by historically territory superposing two occupation structures:
1. – Ideological structure, tree vertexed at the Vatican.
2. – Points of direct action, bishopric-nodes in an interconnected network.
This implantation pattern has ruled both social relationships and territory insertion of the individual members of the Church.
