The new cloister functions as a topographical link with the garden, accentuating its greenery by creating a new forest of columns that extends and connects with the museum; outside, stairs, platforms, and ramps guide visitors towards the entrance...
With the idea of recovering the ‘ensemble’ and giving the Monastery a new purpose, the proposal traces a closed perimeter creating a circulation ring around it; the extension, partially buried, connects with the gardens through the roof...
A sequential route leads to the new plaza of access, where the building, envisaged as a pergola, blurs its presence with glass facades that connect it with the Monastery and its gardens. The extension occupies the ground floor and semibasement...
The proposal reassesses the program to transform it into a coherent complex with an educational and informative potential, through a key action: giving the Monastery the Cloister Garden it is missing, a gallery around a courtyard...
The Madrid practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano have won first place in the competition to build a museum in San Felíu de Guíxols (Girona) to house part of Carmen Thyssen's art collection, joining those already existing in Madrid, Málaga,
The high-school is located on the fringes of the coastal town of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, some one hundred kilometers north of Barcelona. The peripheral context, still changing, suggested an introverted, self-absorbed solution. Two parallel branches, o
