María de la Paz Díaz y Bárbara Martínez, alumnas de la Universidad de Navarra, ganan un concurso para la exposición de las campanas restauradas de la Catedral de Pamplona
María de la Paz Díaz and Bárbara Martínez, students of the University of Navarra, win a contest for the exhibition of the restored bells of the Cathedral of Pamplona.
La conference room de las campanas', proposal winner, will open its doors to the public on June 25 in the Cathedral's Patio del Arcedianato.
The proposal 'La conference room de las campanas', made by the students of the School of Architecture María de la Paz Díaz and Bárbara Martínez, has been the winner of the ideas competition organized by the Fundación Caja Madrid for the exhibition of the restored bells of the Cathedral of Pamplona.
This initiative was addressed to the students of the specialist program in Rehabilitation and Restoration of Architecture (RRA) of the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra and is part of the project Cultural of the Restoration of the Façade of the Cathedral of Pamplona.
The restored pieces will be exhibited in the Patio del Arcedianato of the Cathedral from June 25, once the bronzes have been transferred from the workshops in Valencia, where they are currently located, to the capital of Navarre. As reported by the promoters of the initiative during the awards ceremony submission -presided over by the Mayoress of Pamplona, Yolanda Barcina-, they will remain there until they are taken up to the towers at the end of the work on the façade in 2011.
The works to be exhibited are the ten bells of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from the towers of the facade of the cathedral that, since their departure from Pamplona in October 2009, have been being restored in specialized workshops in Nördlingen (Germany) and Massanassa (Valencia).
Original and viable work
The contest has valued the exhibition design , the originality of speech, its communicative and informative capacity as well as its economic viability, taking into account that the total cost of its execution is valued at the maximum amount of 30,000 euros.
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| The participants in the contest together with the mayor of Pamplona, Yolanda Barcina, and the other authorities who presided over the awards ceremony submission . |
| Photo: Manuel Castells |
The second award went to project 'Domino', presented by the students Ángel María Zugasti, Ester Martín and María Barrera. Likewise, the initiative 'Bronze', carried out by the same authors of the winning work , obtained the third prize accredited specialization.
The jury was chaired by Leopoldo Gil, professor of the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra and architect of the department of Culture and Tourism of the Institución Príncipe de Viana. The other members were Mariano González Presencio, director of the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra; Javier Aizpún, diocesan delegate of Cultural Heritage of Pamplona; Gabriel Morate Martín, director of the Spanish Historical Heritage Conservation Program of the Caja Madrid Foundation; Francesc Llop i Bayó, anthropologist and advisor of the restoration of the bells; Verónica Quintanilla and Joaquín Torres, directors of the restoration work on the façade of the Cathedral of Pamplona; Ana Almagro, architect of the Conservation of Historical Heritage Program of the Caja Madrid Foundation; and Teresa Blanco, of the Caja Madrid Foundation.