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架构师提供的文本描述。几十年前，在西班牙建设一个重要的基础设施时，照顾者通常都有自己的生活区。在我们的例子中，这是一个水力发电厂，仍在运行。然而，这些住宅已被遗弃，并已被毁。该项目包括定义一个将取代这些废墟的解释中心，并对周围地区进行翻修。这是一个在已经受到干预的自然环境中工作的机会。

Text description provided by the architects. Decades ago, when building an important infrastructure in Spain, it was usual to include living quarters for the caretakers. In our case, it was a hydroelectric power plant, still in operation. However, the dwellings had been abandoned and had fell into ruin. The project consisted in the definition of an interpretation centre that would take the place of those ruins, and the refurbishment of the surrounding area. It was an opportunity for working in a natural setting that had already been intervened on.

 Master Plan

卡尼翁河是一个天然的峡谷。它有几公里长，是塞古拉河通过塞拉德拉帕雷拉河造成的，因为它不耐烦地想早点到达齐扎镇。当然，它是狭窄和迷雾的，它的一些侧壁是超过100米高。但是在每个峡谷的自然价值之上，在这个地区我们也有许多更有价值的元素：丰富多样的动物群，令人惊讶的洞穴，壮观的洞穴绘画，当地的植被等等。我们的中心必须被想象成获取所有这些知识的接入点，一个组织人们如何接触各种经验的地方。

The Cañón de Almadenes is a natural gorge. It is several kilometers long, and was created by the River Segura through the Sierra de la Palera, in its impatience in getting earlier to the town of Cieza. It is of course narrow and misterious, and some of its side walls are over a hundred meters high. But over the natural values of every gorge, in the area we also have many more valuable elements: abundant and diverse fauna, surprising chasms, spectacular cave paintings, indigenous vegetation, and much more. Our centre must be imagined as an access point to all that knowledge, a place to organize how people got in contact with that diversity of experiences.

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我们在2006年的第一份投标书中标，但我们继续提出其他备选方案，这些备选方案将允许更大程度的一体化，宣传更多的环境意识，或导致更温和的干预。我们进行了多年的最后工程和所有建筑工程，直到最近才把这些话写在纸上。直到我们终于能够理解我们拒绝的是什么：我们不想让访客成为故事的轴心、参照物或主要角色。我们打算开发一种架构，它传递了自然、地理及其多重代理的相关性，其中访问者将是另一个演员，或者是一个探险家。只要有可能，一位激动的探险家。

We won the 2006 tender with our first proposal, but we continued suggesting other options that would allow for a greater integration, that communicated more environmental awareness, or resulted in a gentler intervention. We carried out the final project and all the construction work for years, without having committed these words to paper until very recently. Until we were finally able to understand what we were rejecting: we didn't want the visitor to be the axis, the reference or the main role of the story. We intended to develop an architecture that transmitted the relevance of nature, geography and their multiple agents, where the visitor would be one more actor, or an explorer. And wherever possible, a thrilled explorer.

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这样，功能空间就会被分散，漫游成为一项地质任务，我们用当地的绿色攀缘植物轻轻地覆盖，有时我们不得不横向进入中心的服务-我们也配备了这些服务。

In this way, functional spaces get dispersed, and wandering becomes a geological imperative that we cover lightly with local green climbing plants, and that sometimes we have to transverse to access the centre's services —which we also equipped.

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这只是干预措施的一小部分：另一部分是西班牙将其建成第一座净能源为零的公共建筑的努力。2009年，欧洲议会同意，从2019年开始开发的每一栋建筑都应通过可再生能源系统和提高能源效率，生产同样数量的能源。现实情况是，在实现这一目标方面没有取得足够的进展。无论如何，Almadenes包含了所有必要的能源系统，在典型的一年中，平衡应该是零。它也有必要的资源来完全管理其用水需求。

This is just a fraction of the intervention: the other part is the effort made to turn it into the first public building with zero net energy in Spain. In 2009 the European Parliament agreed that every building developed from 2019 on should produce the same amount of energy it consumes, through renewable energy systems and increased energy efficiency. The reality is that there is not enough progress towards this objective.  In any case, Almadenes includes all the necessary energy systems, and combined, in a typical year, the balance should be zero. It also has the necessary resources to completely manage its water needs. 

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Architects Ad-hoc msl

Location 30530 Cieza, Murcia, Spain

Category Visitor Center

Architects in charge Juan Antonio Sánchez Morales, Miguel Mesa del Castillo Clavel y Joaquín Contreras García (arquitectos) + Laura Ortín Jiménez y Riccardo Crespi

Project Year 2015

Photography David Frutos Ruiz