The Renovation of Benavente Town Hall by José Juan Barba

This is a Benavente town hall renovation by José Juan Barba. This is a Neotuscan-style structure that consists of a façade and a portico. The intervention revolves around very few materials and two pieces proposed in the project. They are a red curtain and the new staircase. The staircase is only comprehensible while using it, going up and down it and penetrating it from the lift. Its flows vary not only in accordance with the program to which it responds but also to its obvious exposure to the changing light from the east and west.

The curtain was designed based on two memories. The most evident one is a reinterpretation of one of the least-known pieces of the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe. The curtain envelops a space for meetings and decision-making for the local governing body and a space of contradictions.