PEMÁN Y FRANCO Arquitectos / SEBASTIÁN Arquitectos

Owner: Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem

Collaborators: Alejandro Alda, Andrés Jiménez, Victor Calvo, Alberto Gutiérrez Martín, Pedro Balaguer, Miriam Monterde

Graphic designers: Samuel Aznar, Miguel Frago 12 Caracteres

Master carpenters: Lorenzo Abelló, Marcos Abelló

Awards: Selected EU Mies Award 2025, Premio ASCER 2025, Premio Gala Aragonesa de la Edificiación, Accésit Garcia Mercadal Award

Builder: ALBAS TIERZ

Te last interventions in the Monastery of Santa Maria de Sijena consist of the museographic works in the eats and north nave. A series of elements are proposed that complete the services necessary for its use as an exhibition hall, both the utilitarian services and the exhibition cabinets themselves. The museographic tour evokes the organization of the old cells, placing the showcases transversally according to the rhythms of the structure, and acquiring an appropriate size and respectful of the scale of the nave itself. The integration of these last two layers is carried out in a discreet, toned, and harmonious way, with contemporary reminiscences of the elements of the monastery collected in the historical prints and photographs, such as the latticework, the benches and furniture, manifesting a certain character of reversibility through the sincere use of simple and austere materials, but worked and presented in a dignified way.