Europerfil, present in the city of the culture of Santiago de Compostela

Europerfil, with more than four decades of experience in the sector of the metallic enclosure, has become the partner of confidence of the professionals of the architecture and construction for carrying out this great cultural project. He has collaborated in the construction of the city of the culture of Santiago de Compostela in which collaborated with the provision of the profile of colaborante floor of the building of the Museum of history. More than 9,000 square meters of profile Haircol 59 have been necessary for its construction.

Haircol 59 profile is characterized by its enormous possibilities of constructive, since that's done very low slab thickness and very resistant. It's the first of the skins of the building that outwardly ends with the stone of characteristic stonework in Galician lands.

The building of the Museum of history has a height of 52 m and a deck with a dizzying slope of 60 degrees that reaches the ground. This type of cover so inclined has been a major challenge because of its technical difficulty and execution.

The proposal to carry out this project, was the one presented by the American architect Peter Eisenman to the international architecture competition organized by the Xunta de Galicia in 1999, for his conceptual uniqueness and plastic, and for its exceptional harmony with the place.

These new cultural centers with more than 265,000 square meters are located in the Gaiás mount, a small hill to the East of Santiago with an approximate surface of 70 hectares, an area of outstanding landscape values constituting an exceptional viewpoint over the citythey serve as places of study and research, forums of debate and exhibition of the most representative samples of the art field, at the time that will host conferences, seminars, lectures and screenings, using techniques and modern media. Mount Gaiás is bordered by the Sar River to the West and East by the A-9 Highway, which will be the main access to the complex, and will have various facilities: a library and archives of Galicia, a Museum of the Galician historya new technology building, a music theatre, a building of central services and administration, and towers in memory to the architect of New York, Hejduk, disappeared in 2002.

This ambitious project, conducted by Peter Eisenman, symbolizes the five most emblematic streets of the Spanish pilgrimage, in which the American architect has wanted to make a replica of the five streets in the Centre of the city leading up to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.

The design of this emblematic building complex, emerges from a superposition of three layers of information: the urban plant of the medieval Santiago, the topographic map of Mount Gaiás and a Cartesian grid. A three-dimensional mesh generated by computer from these plots set up a curved surface that falls on top of the Hill. In this mantle in several parts, background and figure, full and empty melt in an ambiguous and paradoxical composition which seems to connect the two ends: the spontaneity of the medieval city and absolute rationalism of the computer, creating a spontaneous but artificial formthe culture and the city.

This year will be inaugurated the first phase, and the work is scheduled to end in 2012.