The Village Museum (Muzeul Satului)

The Village Museum, is located in Bucharest,Romania. Despite his lack of celebrity, it's one of the biggest and the oldest outdoors museum in Europe.
The creation of the National Village Museum was a goal for an intensive and sustained research coordinated by Dimitrie Gusti .
Between 1936-1940,the museum had a surface of 6.5 ha, and 33 of the sites were authentic,transferred from different  villages located all over the country.
The surface tends to reproduce the map of Romania, by grouping the monuments of architecture and popular technique on the criterion of geographical proximity of villages of origin, in areas representing major historical provinces of the country. The museum has today over 100,000 m2, and contains 272 authentic peasant farms and houses from all over Romania.
If you ever visit Bucharest, this museum should be on your map. It's an excellent location for taking photographs, make some sketches or just walking on the Herastrau lake shore while finding out something more about the traditional architecture.

Santa Ana and San Joaquin Church

Santa Ana and San Joaquín Church by RGRM Arquitectos

Architects: RGRM Arquitectos
Location: Roquetas, Almería, Spain
Project Architects: Juan José Ruiz Martín, Dolores Victoria Ruiz Garrido
Area: 1,888 sqm
Photographs: Jesús Granada

Collaborators: Jesús Granada, Andrés Salmerón
Technical Architect: José Manuel Lobo Rull
Budget: 1.200.000 euros
Contractor: Ferrovial, Agroman, S.A.
Client: Obispado De Almería
Cost: 635.29 euros/m2
Liturgical Furnishings: Silestone. COSENTINO
Natural Stone: TINO

People and place, place and people and light and sea…

The commission was to substitute the old church of El Puerto, a modest building that had welcomed the parishioners of this area of the city for 30 years, and which the people of the neighborhood understood as their parish. Understanding the link between parishioners and the sea and to translate it into the project has been a starting point for the project, to create an understanding between people and the architecture.

Rooting architecture in the places it belongs, this is an approach we defend. The identity of the place giving shape to the architecture.

The sea of the sailors that we have known personally and who year after year take the Virgin and Saint Anne in procession, the light from Almeria, white, everything generates a palpable whole in our work, to create links and complicities with the new building.

The program is simple: a meeting and celebration space for at least 400 people, classrooms for catechesis, meeting rooms for the parish and a home for the pastor. The plan is laid out from a continuous wall that folds on itself to form the central nave. It houses the sacristy and rectory, and becomes the bell tower. The chapels are grouped within a stone volume, an intimate area, wrapped by the outer wall. The nave, fractured by a crack, is flooded with light. It is this axis that “pulls” the altar to the streets in a gesture of calling. When the door is opened, the altar is seen from the square, powered by the light axis.

Source: archdaily.com

Churches from Spain

   A small number of churches from Spain. I was there last year, in Valencia, and besides all other attractions, the architecture of all the buildings amazed me and my girlfriend.

Here are only three churches, a very small number, but enough to realise that Spain it's a country you should visit, mainly for it's architecture.

Church of San Cipriano

 

Church of San Esteban (Fresno del Torote)

Church of San Pedro Apóstol

 

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