Covered for a year, the Casa Viturro It was overshadowed between the buildings and the urbanism of the Lugo Square and Compostela Street. Until now. The works To fix the facade of this centenary building, one of the best examples of the Coruña modernist architecture, they are starting to finish and the scaffolding already give way to the view of a key building in the modern history of the city.
Because, in addition to its exquisite formula modernist And its fantastic location at the A Coruña shopping center, the Viturro house has a Historical milestone: Be the first city building that had an elevator.
Created by Julio Galán In number 8 of Compostela Street, this historic building, which began its construction in 1910, shows the splendor that the scaffolding for their reform hid during the last months in one of the most unique buildings of A Coruña. Its construction, doing corner, allowed the Asturian architect to develop a building with large volumes on the fronts and auctions, very much of the style of the great constructions of the Paris From the beginning of the 20th century, it reflects the article “The domestic interiors of Julio Galán Carvajal in A Coruña (1901-1911) by Isabel Barro Rey.
To facilitate the acousse To the homes, the architect then designed a building of wide stairs and large rests illuminated by glass clarboyas, in addition to placing that first elevator that was seen in A Coruña to save its four heights (three floors, plus the attic).
Isabel Barro Rey points out that “for Julio Galán, his stay in A Coruña was ten years of intense professional activity in which he had the opportunity to acquire a complete training as an architect and to experiment with the European currents of the architecture of his time. In his coruña homes the search for an architecture capable of integrating traditional trades, theories about comfort and ornament and the most modern artistic currents are appreciated. It was possible thanks to a favorable economic, cultural and social situation;
Because the Asturian architect found a city in full economic bonanza and urban expansion, which gave rise to its Modernist architectural character Even present at many points of A Coruña, such as Casa Rey, also from Galán, the Arambillet building, which designed with Antonio López Hernández or the property of the number 11 of San Nicolás de Ricardo Boán and Callejas.
Alonso Viturro, president of the neighborhood communityhe acknowledged in The Galician ideal that the reform was more complicated than expected. “The instruction is that we recover the original colors of the facade but there is very little documentation, there is no clear record of what they were,” he explained in November, hoping that after Christmas the canvase building could already be stripped, something for which they have finally had to wait until this month of May.
