New Plaza: Urban Design in Arguedas, Navarre.

The renovation project has facilitated and enabled the restoration of the original entrance on the south façade, as well as the landscaping of its adjoining plaza.

The parish priest’s desire to reinstall a previously dismantled and relocated altarpiece—intended to house a reliquary and a tabernacle within the second bay of the north side aisle—prompted us to orient the new design of the south façade to facilitate the permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on special occasions.

This objective shaped the design of the entrance gates—including their security features—and dictated the installation of an additional decorative cast-iron grille.

Into this grille, we incorporated elliptical frames salvaged from the demolition works and introduced the motif of the pelican on the section facing the new plaza.

"Spiritually, the pelican symbolizes unconditional love, redemptive sacrifice, and charity. Based on the medieval legend that a mother pelican wounds her own breast to feed her chicks with her blood, it is regarded as a classic symbol of Christ giving His life for humanity and of the Eucharist."

In a strict sense, the new entrance—oriented axially toward the reliquary—transforms this new plaza into a potential "Plaza of the Blessed Sacrament," to be utilized as such under circumstances and on dates determined by the parish.