- (506) 2224-4191 / (506) 2224-0028
- info@iabse2024.com
The Legislative Assembly Building is an 80-meter-high building that has 18 floors above ground level and four basement floors, located in the city of San José, capital of Costa Rica.
The building began construction on March 7, 2018 and was formally completed in October 2020. It is located between Central Avenue, Central Avenue and 15th Street, on the south side of the Supreme Election Tribunal.
As with the previous building, its location on the Cuesta de Moras sector of Central Avenue means that the legislative body is colloquially called "Cuesta de Moras".
The change of headquarters occurs after more than 60 years of being in a building that had been estimated to be provisional.
Solar panels to save electrical energy and a rainwater collection system that will be used to irrigate the gardens and sanitary services, are part of the Legislative Assembly building.
The building has a central patio where four pre-Columbian spheres are located and an automated system for taking advantage of the wind, which together with windows on the west side, would avoid the permanent use of air conditioning.
We will visit the National Theater of Costa Rica, declared historical heritage since 1965, Meritorious Institution of the Arts and National Symbol of Historical Architectural Heritage since 2018. We will enter through the front door, the most ornate and elegant part of the 127-year-old lobby. We will then walk through the back and hidden spaces of dressing rooms and the stage. We will go down to the bowels of the TNCR to see "the machine" that allows you to go up and down the lunette sector.
This mechanism – still in operation – allows the lunette to be leveled with the stage and is one of the 4 theaters in the world that still has this system in operation. Finally, we will visit the works of the new metal stage that allowed the loom of the historic stage to be unloaded and that is still operated as it did in the nineteenth century. This metal stage was built 100% bolted and segmented to avoid on-site welding. With BIM models, it was possible to model the historic and new structure to avoid collisions and facilitate the complex installation.
NOTE:
This visit requires going up and down steps, there is no wheelchair accessibility.
© 2024 All Rights Reserved
