m@pmalgrat:
mapping the territory
We
understand the site as a representation of the Malgrat Plan and its territorial
traces. The boundary of the building represents the main infrastructures and
the principal streets while the rest of the site features the costal mountains
and the sea.
We
scale those traces to a measure that coincides with the surface of the program.
Inserting these geographical patterns gives a new identity. This mapping mechanism
allows us to understand the building as a landscape, as a new image of the
city of Malgrat, frozen in geological layers.
The
ambiguity of the unity-duality of the building has a repercussion on the formal
process that exists as a feedback between the two pieces. The roof promenade
is generated by the geometry of the superposed volume, moved with the parking
grid measure. Another similar mechanism generates the folding and holing of
the square, that links all the layers of the project. The natural traces (mountains
and sea) are completing the rest of the square. Smooth folds and dunes are
protecting and half-covering the bus parking and the lower level.
The
ramp concept is converted into the essence of the building, a sequential trip
that resolves the program in three blocks and two roof slabs made of cement.
We think it is important to amplify the communication and the flow in a multicultural
furnishings. The cement roof links different spaces and activities. The project
represents different flowing spaces over a continuous surface.
