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The new Administration Square was born in the process of recovering a vehicular road as a square in whose surroundings there are several patrimonial buildings, being two of them the most important government buildings in the city, it is so that the positivist conception of the space as empty, it is substituted by the will of carrying out a space with contents.
Having the ingredients of a historical square (monument, patrimonial buildings, urban furniture), the expansion of the old Sucre Square was projected, modifying the historical referral on transferring the monument to the intersection of the two space axes that the four blocks form. In this case the project affects to the encircling factors, working on the contained space with the pre-existent elements and with the pavement that connects the references whose increased importance is given back to the monument.
The Administration square, contrary to the new contemporary squares, feeds on the preceding one from an accumulation of meanings, and the classification of the functions, being this way a" new historical square."
In the search of a historical stratification, the reference to the original layout of the old Sucre square, whose traces were erased between the years 30 and 40 of the last century, was considered as important inside the script as it is it the monument.
To rescue the ellipse of the square’s original perimeter, the pavement was once again resorted to; a stripe of red marble draws the geometric figure that contains in its interior a rustic porphyry of connotations rather historical that contrasts notably with the rest of the floors. This perimeter is reinforced in three dimensions with the presence of pedestals and vases, also references of the original.
In the center of the ellipse is the trace of the old base of the monument, which is divided in four parts by two marble stripes; one in longitudinal axis of the ellipse and the other in its traverse axis.