The town council promoted an ambitious revitalisation operation in Les Roquetes neighbourhood through the construction of new municipal offices and sheltered housing. With this material, it wanted to revitalise the activity in the area and give continuity to two different and confronting urban fabrics, one on a slope and self-built during the 60s, and another in plan and formed by a more recent extension and with a different type of real estate development that gave it a different scale.
The project opted for the creation of a generous square that was defined by a continuous building that embraced it and that contained all the required program. Located on a steep slope, it sought horizontality, managed to avoid the access ramps to the underground car park that always break the ground plan, generating undefined and dark areas, and planted as many bananas as possible.
The town hall building was very attentive to the many virtues of the neighbouring self-constructions, especially to their extraordinary richness in the transitions between exterior and interior, usually based on sequences with a great deal of patios, terraces, pergolas, trees or plants. All this influenced different themes and especially the way of entering, which was proposed through a half-hidden courtyard, protected by a large tree and treated as a generous hall from which any room could be accessed.
From its gestures in plan so that it was seen from the two main streets that penetrated the adjacent fabrics to the treatment of its volumetry chopped in some areas or treated with more emphasis in others, its general appearance was born from the will to give maximum continuity to the two tissues and to preside over and give meaning to the square.
