© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

In collaboration with Pablo Fernández Lorenzo, Pablo Redondo Díez, Alfonso González Gaisán and Francisco Blanco Velasco

To build with air, the abiding dream of every architect:
Facing the cathedral and following the outline of the former convent’s kitchen garden, we erect a strong stone wall box open to the sky. Its walls and floors entirely made of stone. The very same stone as the Cathedral. A real Hortus Conclusus. In the corner facing the cathedral, a massive stone measuring 250×150x50, a veritable Cornerstone. And chiselled on that stone:
HIC LAPIS ANGULARIS MAIO MMXII POSITO
Within the stone box, a glass box, only glass. Like a greenhouse. With a double facade similar to a Trombe wall. The external skin of the facade is made of glass, each single sheet measuring 600×300x12 and all joined together simply with structural silicone and hardly anything else. As if entirely made of air.

© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

The trihedral upper angles of the box are made completely with glass, thus even further accentuating the effect of transparency. Precisely what Mies was looking for in his Friedrichstrasse tower. The trihedron built with air, a true Glass Corner. And engraved in acid on the glass:
HOC VITRUM ANGULARIS MAIO MMXII POSITO
The stone box made from Memory. With its Cornerstone deeply rooted in the soil.

© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

The glass box made for the Future. With its Glass Corner blending into the sky.
To build with air, the abiding dream of every architect.

© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Javier Callejas Sevilla . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Alberto Campo Baeza . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Alberto Campo Baeza . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Alberto Campo Baeza . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Alberto Campo Baeza . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Alberto Campo Baeza . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Alberto Campo Baeza . Published on September 14, 2012.

© Alberto Campo Baeza . Published on September 14, 2012.