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ODISEO:
GASTRONOMICAL AND LEISURE
CENTER
Murcia, 2020/2021 

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Design of the Year XIII Premios Porcelanosa 2022

Category Design of the Year

Special Prize 2022 XIII Premios Porcelanosa 2022

Category Design of the Year

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Odiseo is the result of the desire to create a big urban leisure complex, which wants to become a reference, not only for the city of Murcia, but for the entire south east region of Spain. Covering a total built area of 15,500 m2, the building houses two restaurants, a nightclub, a performance hall, a casino and a sports bar, as well as two parking levels undeground.

Located in one of the main entrances to the city, surrounded by high-speed roads (where the landscape is dominated by the billboards and logos of shopping malls and other businesses), the building seeks to make itself visible without appealing for external sign poles, becoming a colossal totem that houses air and vegetation, designed to be appreciated in motion and from a 360-degree angle.

On the other hand, and assuming the essence of the main use of the building (a leisure center), the project pursues the user experience as a fundamental objective: from the purely sensorial (comfort, the sound of water, reflections, textures) to the psychological (curiosity, amazement, expectation, surprise, smile ...).

Based on these guides, the building is made up externally by a two-level plinth, slightly shifted from each other, generating a large terrace on its roof, where a pavilion for a restaurant is placed. Above this appears the “totem” (a large latticework of metal tubes supporting the sign that crowns the building) and a raised terrace crossed by a cantilevered pool on both sides, which, by leaning only on two central concrete cores, overhangs up to 22 meters. A challenging and complex structural design, where singular resources become conventional, is ultimately used to generate an elevated forest: water features, vegetation, shade, ventilation... combine to create an ecosystem that defends the building from the strong climate of one of sunniest cities in Europe, very focused on tourism.

Inside, an extremely careful design generates independent worlds, juxtaposed with each other, led by the restaurant space. Taking the Mediterranean as a starting point (which also guides its kitchen) and Greek mythology as its most essential representation, an accumulation of textures (woods, gold and bronze, natural fibers, velvets, artisan ceramics...), blended under deeply warm lighting, transmit to the user different perceptions of the beauty of this concept.

The construction, financed exclusively with private money, has counted to a large extent on local talent and workers, based on a spirit of economic responsibility with the small city in which it is located, badly hit by the previous crisis. Architecture, communication and nature overlap to give character and livability to a previously inhospitable and charmless area of the city, creating an urban oasis with a domesticated climate open to all citizens.
 

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Design Credits:


Partners in Charge: Manuel Clavel Rojo / Luis Clavel Sainz
 

Project Director: Diego Victoria García

 

Team: Cristina Jódar Pérez, David Hernández Conesa, Luis Muñoz García, Juan Pedro Boluda Sánchez, Javier Zueco Sánchez, Ana Fernández Martínez, Rafael de Giles González, David Gil Delgado, Joaquín Pérez Vicente, Tatiana Poggi, Adrián Riquelme Martínez, Ginés Sabater Arnaldos, Elena García Jiménez, Nieves Clemente García de Alcaraz, Diego J. García López García, Ricardo Carcelén González, Ana Abellán Márquez, Cristina Rodrigo de la Casa.


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Collaborators: Qube Ingeniería (Iago González Quelle), Quanto Ingeniería S.L.P. (Pedro J. Martínez Hernández y Ginés E. Mayor Méndez)

Construction Managers: David Hernández Conesa y Javier Muñoz Ruiz

Project Management: OTARIN ESTUDIO S.L.P.

Contractor: TECOPSA S.A.


Ownership: Orenes Grupo

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Photos by David Frutos (BISimages)

Videos by Gonzalo Ballester

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