The competition brief that set the guidelines for this project called for a generic container whose interiors would remain throughout the year at temperatures between 18 and 25 degrees Celsius. The proposal involved modifying the initial planning, making climate the building’s main point through a broader strategy: the creation of a fragmented space, defined by controlled transitions between its parts and extended to include a new park that makes the most of the materials produced by the earthworks. 

Built in several phases, the last one of which will be completed in 2019, the project involves the creation of an infrastructure capable of growing and passively addressing the climate conditions of the place. 

The result is a topography that one can cover entirely by following a sort of climate promenade that goes from a large sun-filled terrace to a shaded riverbed planted with local vegetation which contributes to passively regulating temperature.

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 In line with the project’s environmental awareness, the manipulation of the topography – the earth – is accompanied by other strategies related to water (control of humidity and recycling), air (warm breeze in the terrace and fresh air in the riverbed), and fire (management of solar radiation year-round).

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All this results in a complex that presents an open and civic character, whose appearance is defined by the deliberate roughness of its materials: reinforced concrete slabs, exposed steel profiles and frameworks, recycled wooden boards, and gravel pavements.