Saint George’s church and parish complex in Pamplona

Abstract

This church, located in Pamplona, ​​is the result of a contest promoted by the Archdiocese of Pamplona and Tudela, at a time in 2000 where this plausible policy of competitions to obtain religious buildings of certain relevance and interest was reborn. And as history has taught us, it is the best formula to obtain optimal results. It was a contest convened with clear and sensible bases, with a well-known and solvent jury, with reasonable conditions and with an absolute naturalness. I say this because the bidding documents for this church -which is neither a simple nor a small building- would be about ten pages, compared to other contests to which we are accustomed, promoted by the Administration, which have one hundred and fifty pages, and which really, when you finish the contest you have not yet understood the specifications. With this, I want to encourage the ecclesiastical curia to continue with this policy - which will rescue it - because we think it is the best tool to grow the heritage of religious architecture in our country.

The program that we were asked for was a parish church: a temple with a capacity for four hundred people and a daily chapel for one hundred people. In turn, a parish center that had rooms for various uses, as well as the offices and catechism rooms needed in this type of sets. The program was a very simple, very clear thing. We introduced ourselves and we got to it.