The task in Arévalo is to design a new museum space for the Adrastus Collection, which comprises around 600 works with a special focus on the most important artists of the 21st century. At the same time there is a wish to revitalize the surrounding city and use it actively as a part of the new museum space.
Arévalo has a several historic buildings worthy of protection, including a church which has also been renovated, and Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is therefore working to create a link among the historic buildings.
By means of a series of simple cubic volumes that make up the new exhibition spaces and a garden developed through several levels, the new and the old are interwoven.
With a view to the preservation of the density and scale of the historic municipality, the public will move among close spaces and open urban squares. The new museum spaces are designed in a material that lies close to the expression of the existing town, and will, thus, appear as a unified complex. Thanks to its simple and more stringent form, the new spaces will, at the same time stand out from the existing ones, emphasizing the historic landmarks.
