Can Ginestar is an old farmhouse, now in the centre of Sant Just Desvern, which has been working as a civic centre for years.
If the farmhouse is a piece to be preserved and valued, the garden that surrounds it is also a reference for Sant Just and the years accumulated on its vegetation have given its trees a unique value.
The library, which could be located in any part of the north garden (and which the urban planning proposed as an isolated piece), would form part of the equipment of this civic centre.
This northern part of the garden is much less used than the rest, due to its slope, orientation and poor accessibility, but it is signified by the presence of large trees.
The project aims to respect the trees and consequently the topography of the land, so that the façade in the garden is moved forward or backward to establish distances and relationships with the trees.
On the contrary, the rear façade uses the boundary with respect to the street as the back of the library and is proposed in continuity with the beautiful and undulating existing wall, which ends with a space open to the natural territory.
The library (facing the garden) is treated as a glazed gallery that seeks visual contact in extension with the large trees. The gallery is resolved with light elements that distance themselves from the massive image of the farmhouse and can be understood as its formal counterpoint.
