Burgos Cathedral, located in Spain, is a 13th-century building. However, the temple is a living architecture that has continuously expanded and is enriched with new performances.

The intervention also opens a new access in a historic door that had remained closed for too long, recovered through the care and cleaning of the historical vault of the San Fernando room.

The vaulted room of San Fernando has an area of 260 m2.

The cathedral updates its services to national and international visitors. It has been designed understanding this space at the service of the reception that makes this store a contemporary extension of the Cathedral.

Here, a foreign visitor or citizen of Burgos can access the purchase of a souvenir of the World Heritage monument.

The new space contains a general information point, a tickets sale shop, the reception of pilgrims on the road to Santiago, a store of new products and souvenirs of the cathedral, toilets and complementary services for visitors.

The store is a space with new products designed for the opening also for the citizens of Burgos.

Three main criteria were established: the spatial recovery of the vaulted space of the room, the use of traditional materials, geometries and textures, and the inclusion of sustainability technologies for indoor climatic comfort.

With stones on floors and table cards, with wood in the furniture, with the geometry of the arches and vaults, with the colour of the stained glass, the chrome Traditional forges and metal elements.

With a new heating, enhancing natural lighting and improving with artificial LEDs, and with artisanal work in the production of its furniture and architecture.

This pragmatic project for a historical space provokes surprise in the viewer and combines tradition and contemporaneity in a pedagogical view of the architecture of the Gothic cathedrals based on their elements.