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Entwurf • Design Zooco Estudio, ES-Santander
Bauherr • Client privat
Standort • Location ES-Santander
Nutzfläche • Floor space 570 m 2
Fotos • Photos David Zarzoso
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 126

MUSEUM RESTAURANT

IN SANTANDER

1 Neues Restaurant • New restaurant Where Romans once settled and merchants later traded
2 Verglastes Atrium, Bestand •
3 Glazed atrium, existing building with the New World, today it is mainly the Spanish who
3 Erschließung, Bestand • enjoy a seaside holiday. But research and culture are not
Staircase, existing building
4 Neue Restaurant-Terrasse • neglected in Santander on the Spanish north coast! Zooco
New restaurant terrace
5 Café, Bestand • Café, existing building Estudio has turned a former viewing platform into a great
6 Café-Terrasse, Bestand • dining room with the potential to be the new centre of
Café terrace, existing building
attraction for the Maritime Museum and the city.

W hether internationally renowned or regionally popular, the
6 sea has played a vital role for local residents throughout the
centuries. One reason why the first maritime research station was
established here as early as 1886. In 1972, the provincial government
and the Santander Oceanographic Laboratory finally joined forces
to realize the Museo Marítimo del Cantábrico. Since then, the aim
of the Cantabrian Maritime Museum has been to provide an inno-
4 5 vative prestigious location for research and also to shed light on the
history of the relationship between man and the sea in Santander
with a museum exhibition and aquariums covering over 3,000 square
metres. Completed and inaugurated in 1981 according to the plans of
architects Ángel Hernández Morales and Vicente Roig Forné, the buil-
ding complex on the seafront promenade included a public viewing
platform with an impressive paraboloid concrete roof structure. As
part of a museum extension in 2003, this was converted into a fourth
exhibition floor by means of a glass construction, which allows visu-
al contact with the exhibition floors below via a central atrium. On
this basis, 20 years later Zooco Estudio converted the building into
a museum restaurant. This involved the creation of a new volume
whose square morphology is the result of the addition of four triangles
that complete the paraboloids of the original building. In order to
2 3 visually bring the impressive concrete structure to the fore, the plan-
ners decided to work with few materials and a minimalist spectrum of
natural colours. Fixed wooden seating niches and sideboards as well
as eye-catching spherical luminaires inevitably direct the guest’s gaze
to the parabolic membrane, which seems to float weightlessly around
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the atrium. Unobtrusive wooden furniture, large-format tiles, translu-
cent curtains and ceiling areas clad with narrow wooden mouldings
also create a discreetly designed framework for the qualities of the old
building stock. The new restaurant thus offers a successful interplay
between architecture, upscale gastronomy and panoramic views of
Grundriss • Floor plan the Bay of Biscay.

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