Calasparra
Architects: MACH
Location: Calasparra, Murcia, Spain
Year: 2022 – 2025
Status: Built Project – 1st Prize National Competition
Program: Calasparra City Council
Client: Public
Photographer: Del Rio Bani

The project for the new Calasparra Town Hall is located in the town’s urban center, surrounded by a large open space that functions both as a parking area and as the weekly market square, along Avenida Primero de Mayo, next to the dome in Plaza Emilio Pérez Piñero, which pays tribute to the engineer and inventor native to Calasparra.

The building is organized through a clear strategy of spatial, structural, and functional order that enables an efficient resolution of the current program while ensuring its capacity for future adaptation. The floors are structured around a central spine that organizes circulation and brings together the vertical communication cores and all building services, allowing the perimeter to remain free and generating open, flexible, and easily transformable spaces.

The structure, made of a distinctive red concrete, defines the character of the building. Placed along the perimeter, it has been designed to allow the future expansion of the complex by up to three additional floors, through the introduction of lighter construction systems in the upper levels. Its robustness establishes a clear institutional identity and a strong architectural presence.

The façade is conceived as a large dress that wraps around and embraces the structure, creating a continuous relationship between interior and exterior. Its materiality reflects the colors of the region through a Cartagena red or crimson tone, emphasizing the public and representative nature of the building while establishing a symbolic connection with the identity and material tradition of the Region of Murcia. The building becomes both an observer of the everyday life of the town and an urban background that frames and accompanies the activities of Calasparra.