The covering of glass mosaic that clads a large part of the Universidad Laboral de Gijón, both plain and decorative, forms the largest ensemble in this material in Spain.
The architect Luis Moya designed an enormous surface area of walls and columns faced with glass mosaic, on the basis of savings in wall maintenance, thereby avoiding painting. Today, after 75 years of existence, it can be said with certainty that he made a great decision.
Throughout the length and breadth of the Universidad Laboral one can see an immense surface of walls, corridors, passageways and rooms faced with mosaics of various colours, plain and decorated, which, together with the Talavera tiles and the decorative mosaics by the designers Frances Farreras and Fernando Rivero, executed by the great mosaic maker Santiago Padrós, make Luis Moya's great architectural work shine in an extraordinary way, almost like an art gallery.
Rafael Morán Rumoroso
info@universidad-laboral-gijon.es
