The main idea of the project is to work with the space and the place in which the new building is inserted. The new building had to enhance the existing modernist buildings such as the Convent of Valldonzella from 1910, the building where the old Science Museum was located from 1909, and a small neighbourhood of old constructions of single-family homes. It also had to create a meeting point in the neighbourhood where some university buildings are located.
Despite the size of the building (50,000 m2, ten times larger than the modernist building), it was not to adopt an excessive presence in the district or disfigure the urban environment. The building is therefore located below ground level, takes advantage of the natural slope of the land and creates a public square, Ciència Square, and just below there is the large exhibition hall delimited by two large longitudinal skylights which allow you to have a reference to the outside from the underground spaces.
In this way, the modernist building, once restored, regains the prominence of the space by presiding over Ciència Square, and the neighbourhood improves the quality of its urban spaces.
