The City Council takes a new step towards the implementation of the Mirador del Carmen library with the tender for its furniture and equipment.

The tender has been divided into four lots corresponding to the different areas of use of this eight-story cultural space.

The Estepona City Council has opened the tender for the contract for the supply, assembly and placement of furniture and equipment for the new Library of Contemporary Cultures to be located in the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center. This is a further step in the implementation of this important cultural space for the city, which will become a benchmark given its special characteristics and range of resources and services.

The contract has been divided into 4 lots, corresponding to the different differentiated areas that the library will have: Children’s Room, Future Room, Consultation and Research Area on floors 3 to 7, and Resonance Area. The overall base bidding budget has been set at 296,666 euros (VAT included).

The aim of this division into lots is to give continuity and harmony to each of the different areas of the library, so that the different furnishings are consistent with each other to form a whole in which colors, design, finishes, surfaces, ergonomics and interior layout are perfectly integrated.

Lot 1 corresponds to the Children’s Room, on the second floor where the administration will also be located. For this area, the installation of modular cabinets, office tables, chairs, children’s rugs and other equipment aimed at children, such as tents, children’s games, multicolored school chairs or diaper changers, in addition to the furniture for the administration service, has been planned for this area.

Lot 2 corresponds to the floor where the Future Room will be located, intended mainly for users between 14 and 18 years of age. It will be a meeting point for adolescents to do group or individual work, read or use audiovisual media. In addition to tables, chairs and cabinets, there will be a hanging seat, a ‘gamer’ stand, consultation tables, absorbent tone panels, encapsulated armchairs and poufs, among others.

Lot 3 corresponds to furniture and equipment for floors 3 to 7. The third floor will house the consultation and reading area, a space for which the installation of a bookshelf/center of interest called New Expressions, which will focus on new contemporary narratives (literature, art, music and film), is planned. There will also be two low shelves for novelties and another for specialized magazines. It will be completed with seats for reading with side tables and light points or lamps and a work and reading table 2.50 meters long by 1 meter wide with capacity for eight people, as well as a smaller one (70×70) for two people.

The fourth floor, corresponding to the documentation area, dedicated to study and research, will specialize in the sea and the environment, with access to the digital and physical catalog specialized in this area. The furniture to be supplied on this floor includes an area with the possibility of launching projects on the main screen in front of the corrugated desk that will border the staircase partition; high shelving and a silent booth; a work table three meters long by one meter wide with capacity for eight people; and a desk in the form of a bar with stools for two people.

The fifth floor, dedicated to the coworking area, will have glass structures that will be covered with wood to create independent and interconnected workstations, and a central table.

On the sixth and seventh floors, corresponding to the study and workshop area, a desk is planned against the wall of the staircase, which will surround a tree overlooking the seventh floor. This space will have three individual seats with individual trays. There will also be a tiered seating area for lectures, carpeting, poufs and side tables. The upper tier will be reserved for people with reduced mobility. Desks, tables and light points will complete the furniture in these areas, together with the neon letters that have been planned for the wall that joins the two floors in the central area.

Finally, lot 4, corresponding to the so-called Resonance Zone, designed as a multifunctional and digital floor, includes, among other equipment, a small audiovisual room, seats accompanied by three tablets (the supply of these tablets is not part of this tender) for listening to music through the center’s app, a small room for voice recording, podcast, and radio with space for 4 people; listening chairs, chairs, seats for the cinema room, vinyl covering for the cinema room and curtain for this same room.

The tender has set the different goods to be supplied as a minimum, since bidders may include in their interior design proposals the improvements they deem necessary without increasing the contract price of each of the lots.

The Estepona City Council is also in the bidding phase for the supply of all the multimedia equipment for the future Library of Contemporary Cultures, consisting of eight floors of approximately one hundred square meters each, within the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center.

The project is based on creating a transversal, innovative, close, accessible and future-oriented library, a space designed for people’s comfort and learning and not merely for storage. The purpose of this public space is to create a place for meeting, relaxation, study and research.