Architecture in bloom: Losada García Arquitectos’ Cultural Center La Gota

Losada García Arquitectos's Cultural Center La Gota
Losada García Arquitectos's Cultural Center La Gota offers visitors the opportunity to explore the Cáceres region's tobacco growing history whilst interacting with the works of Spanish artist Sofia Feliu
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A new art gallery in Spain's Cáceres region intertwines a blossoming contemporary art scene with the area's rich tobacco growing history.

Cultural Center La Gota is a new exhibition space, which sits on the former site of a 1930s building. Designed by local architects Losada García Arquitectos, the gallery combines a permanent collection by Spanish artist Sofia Feliu with temporary event spaces and a museum dedicated to tobacco production.

The gallery consists of five blocks, stacked one on top of the other with each cuboid protruding at a distinctive angle from the one below to resemble the structure of a tobacco plant. Balconies have been included on each floor, allowing visitors to view the city from a variety of perspectives.

At the centre of the structure sits a bright green staircase, which ascends through the levels, leading the visitor on a journey through white walled rooms filled with agricultural machinery, paintings and sculptures.

Each room is constructed from glass and encased in a checkered pattern of clay tiles, lending the building a woven appearance, allowing a dappled light into the gallery space as well as helping to illuminate the structure at night.

The glass allows in heat as well as light, a potential problem were it not for an expanse of green foliage on one of the exterior walls. Consisting of tobacco plants and other shrubbery, the vegetation ensures that the temperature does not soar too high during the blistering Spanish summer.

The gallery consists of five blocks on left and Balcony on right

Pictured left: The gallery consists of five blocks, stacked one on top of the other with each cuboid protruding at a distinctive angle from the one below. Right: balconies have been included on each floor, allowing visitors to view the city from a variety of perspectives

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Sunlight filters through the cermaic tiles, creating a dappled effect

Sunlight filters through the cermaic tiles, creating a dappled effect

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The gallery's stark white interior allows the view beyond the ceramic tiles to take centre stage

The gallery's stark white interior allows the view beyond the ceramic tiles to take centre stage

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An expanse of green foliage on one of the exterior walls

An expanse of green foliage, consisting of tobacco plants and other shrubbery, on one of the exterior walls ensures that the temperature does not soar too high

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Glass encased in a checkered pattern of clay tiles

Each room is constructed from glass and encased in a checkered pattern of clay tiles

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A view from one of the gallery's numerous, expansive balconies

A view from one of the gallery's numerous, expansive balconies

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INFORMATION
For more information, visit Losada García Arquitectos’ website

ADDRESS

Cultural Center La Gota
Navalmoral de la Mata
Cáceres, Spain

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