Visible des del Castell i el Pont, l’edifici vol ser reconeixible per la capacitat de donar resposta als diferents àmbits on se situa, a mig camí entre el parc i la ciutat. L’edifici es fragmenta per obtenir un perímetre necessari per a la disposició del programa, al mateix temps que permet travessar-lo facilitant els recorreguts en diagonal i establint relacions des del parc cap a l’Avinguda i des de la ciutat cap al nou recinte firal. Aquesta planta permet configurar una bona disposició del programa establint crugies òptimes per a cadascun dels usos, reduint la circulació interior i generant espais de relació. L’element separador, de gruix variable, serveix de transició, conté espais servidors i afavoreix l’absorció acústica. A l’exterior, el revestiment modular, a base de pannells de formigó arquitectònic de gran format, garanteix la continuïtat de la textura de la façana al mateix temps que adequa el seu tractament a cadascuna de les orientacions i les necessitats dels usuaris.

The site The new police station is located on the outskirts of the neighborhood in a zone reserved for council buildings. The proposal is placed in a pre-existing grove of magnificent beech trees that determine the main decisions for the project. The main building mass is concentrated at the north end of the site, in the unoccupied area, while the car park is organized around the grove. The remainder of the site forms a green cushion that separates the building from the road becoming a transition space for the visitors. The building The building is separated from the street by no more than a wooded garden. There are no railings to bar the public. The police should be seen to be accessible and friendly. A compact, horizontal, abstract and introverted volume is proposed due to the requirements of high-security, use and flexibility of the program. The public entrance is formed by raising the head at one of the ends of the building forming a large access porch. The staff entrance is placed at the opposite end of the main facade. The materiality Once inside everything changes. A system of double height spaces and patios organize the private zones and flood the interior with light. The color white becomes the main player. Its texture changes to differentiate the different walls: textured concrete for the exterior, polished stone on the floor, white brick and wood for the walls, perfect white for the ceiling...

LOCATION The building is located at the confluence of two streets of very different character and section, but of great importance for Vilafranca: on the one hand, Pelegrina Avenue, which is the bypass of the town, with a fast-track section, a large traffic density and few pedestrians; on the other, the Igualada road, as a great promenade that connects with the centre of Vilafranca. The new outpatients clinic understands and responds to the place through a clear, clean and articulated volumetry: a low body that grows in the corner, at the meeting of the streets, marking the entrance to the building and becoming the new door to the city. PROGRAM The building is projected from the void, the patios articulate the volumetry and the spaces, guaranteeing the perfect illumination of all the spaces and favouring the privacy that a healthcare building requires. The articulation of the patios achieves domestic and human proportions of the waiting rooms, the steps and the rest of the spaces for relationships, favouring a comfortable use with quality visual and lighting relations. The lower body incorporates the entire program for public use, leaving the most private parts on the upper floors of the entrance volume. MATERIALITY The materials used also respond to a double scale: on the one hand, the precast concrete pieces give the volume its character as a public building, as a new access door to the city; that contrasts with the interior, white, clean and bright, where the materiality is the light itself, which floods the spaces through large windows framing the relationships between the interior and the exterior. The glass and the windows move in and out in these large sheet metal frames, establishing different spatial relationships with the exterior and with the patios, which guarantee the intimacy and privacy of the consulting rooms and waiting rooms.

The fair is a small town. The stands, with their noise and diversity, are the dwellings; while, due to its scale and monomateriality, the common places are associated with the forum, representative of the monumental. The common spaces of the BBC are projected with a logic of circular economy, zero cost and zero waste. This prevents more than 25,000m2 of material from becoming waste after 72 hours. The use of two materials respecting their standard measurements prioritises the use of resources (0 cost, 0 waste): the 150gr geotextile in rolls of 2.20m x 200m in length, generates a sequence of catenaries that accommodates common uses, and after the fair it rolls up to be employed in construction; beams from the collection of the Sagrada Família are stacked in levels to configure furniture, returning to said work after the fair. A game of dualities is involved: traction vs. compression, stacking vs. hanging, light vs. heavy, transparent vs. opaque, space vs. furniture… Light cave and solid cabin dialogue in a kind of dichotomy.

A compact, austere building that gives prominence to the structure as an expression of its presence in the territory. A sequence of porticoes perpendicular to the street and the landscape project asymmetrical overhangs that enhance the transparency between the two parts of the territory, constructing a plane 7 metres above the ground that seems to float above the fields. A neutral and modular element that will easily allow for future extensions. The double scale of a portico embedded in another portico, like a Russian doll, resolves the coexistence between the domesticity required by the fireman who lives in the park and the size of the lorries that live in the garage. A single gesture that systematises and unites. The industrialisation demanded in the competition to build the Park in the shortest possible time is resolved by means of elements made in the workshop and assembled on site. A laminated timber skeleton forms the double pillars (to give slenderness) and the beams braced by these pillars. Wooden sandwich panels modulate the façade in a checkerboard pattern that shades the relationship between interior and exterior according to their uses. A construction based on the efficiency of materials, where no waste is produced due to its industrialisation and where CO2 is fixed through the use of wood - a material symbol of the 21st century and an ideal choice due to its low conductivity compared to, for example, steel. The material is structure, protection and enclosure at the same time.

El Centro Social El Roser se desarrolla en el edificio de la antigua prisión preventiva de Reus, edificio catalogado como BCIL (Bien Cultural de Interés Local) y perteneciente al Inventario del Patrimonio Arquitectónico de Cataluña. El equipamiento supone un programa innovador en España. Consta de un refugio para personas sin hogar, un comedor social y un espacio comunitario, concentrando, de este modo, la totalidad de los servicios sociales de la ciudad, característica que lo convierte en la primera instalación integral de este tipo. La propuesta es la transformación de una transformación. La prisión, construida en el año 1929, había sido transformada en escuela en 1979. Esta intervención previa se aprovecha para llevar a cabo un proyecto en el cual los distintos estratos temporales dialogan entre sí, llevando a cabo un proceso de selección que muestra las capas constructivas ocultas y sus distintas transformaciones, poniéndolas en valor. El proyecto respeta y recupera la edificación original, descubriendo su estructura y la tipología constructiva de la época, oculta hasta ahora, con la intención de evocar una imagen de austeridad. La intervención trabaja a diferentes escalas. Por un lado, se establece una dialéctica entre los nuevos elementos, de carácter más etéreo, ligero y tectónico, contrastando con la composición y los materiales minerales estereotómicos de la estructura existente, más pesada. Por otro lado, a la geometría de la planta en "H", que rodea dos patios, se le realizan unas nuevas aberturas transversales que, a través de las visuales, la permeabilizan a modo "palladiano", eliminando la estanqueidad de los espacios. Se replantea así la lectura, el funcionamiento y los recorridos del edificio en su interior, al mismo tiempo que se hace también a nivel urbano, alterando la relación con su entorno inmediato. Mientras que a la prisión original se accedía desde la vía principal a través de un portal monumental con un mínimo espacio de acera, en la propuesta se elimina el muro que limitaba el patio del edificio penitenciario, convirtiéndolo en un espacio público abierto cedido a la ciudad, que permite al transeúnte tomar conciencia del equipamiento a través de la continuidad de sus fachadas. Una estructura esbelta de acero se convierte en un gesto que recuerda el muro ahora ausente, al mismo tiempo que cose tres períodos históricos diferentes. A su vez, la conservación del portal monumental da testimonio del muro desaparecido y realza el valor patrimonial del equipamiento. En otra escala más doméstica, los elementos como ventanas, núcleos húmedos, etc. se introducen por tangencia reforzando la idea de palimpsesto.