10/19/2011

PAC – Personal Activities Capsule

150% competition. Fundación Caja de Arquitectos grants, 2008.


With 150% the foundation proposed to work on an existing city to find new solutions in order to increase the population but saving the city ground.

The answer to that is the CAP or PAC, Personal Activities Capsule, a cube that lives like a good parasite in the existing buildings of Santa Catalina, a neighbourhood of Palma de Mallorca.






10/10/2011

Municipal Archive and History Museum in Sallent (VII – park)


Master thesis. July, 2008.

18 Sallent_Park

On a lower level from the basement of the building, but 3 meters up from the Riereta, there is a piece of land that can be connected to the village streets with a staircase. Then, the Park of the Riereta is created.


The piece of land is in fact the remains of the city walls. It was the limit of the village of Sallent before 1912, when the Torres i Amat school was created.


Opening this space to the population would be a way to rediscover existing stone structures, but it also would improve pedestrian mobility.





The most important points for distributing the park are the Archive and Museum building on the west side and an historical stone structure with an unknown use on the east.


It’s also important the study of the existing trees and plants, in order to get a new garden but with the typical vegetation of the zone.



20 Sallent_Park, pavillion

The stone volume on the east side of the park is transformed into an open pavilion for exhibiting sculptures on its ground floor. Its roof can be used for concerts, theatre, cinema… and also as an entrance to the park.