The new building of the Castilian administration is located opposite the monument of Romanesque architecture - the Samora Cathedral (founded in the 12th century), and was built of the same stone of pale coral color. The polygonal open "box" contains a glass 2-storey building of the same complex silhouette. Several trees are planted in the space formed between the thick-walled box and the glass volume.
The irregular shape of the building is "cut out" in accordance with the difficult conditions of the old urban development: a small and complex plot of land on which the regional administration office is located - the former monastery garden. Rare openings in the stone walls "frame" the views of the cathedral and the surrounding area. The walls and roof of the building are completely made of transparent glass, the panels of which are connected with silicone. However, daily and seasonal temperature drops should not affect the microclimate of the building: glass "envelops" the building twice and allows maintaining a constant temperature inside with the help of a ventilated facade. Thus, officials will work in a kind of "greenhouse" with a constant comfortable temperature.
This "greenhouse" was inspired by the famous project of the "glass skyscraper" on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1921). The star-shaped prototype is similar to the construction of Campo Baeza not only in the transparency of the walls, but also in the complexity of the building's silhouette.
