jaen+santabarbara arquitectos

The place where the equipment will be installed is a municipal lot surrounded by large residential and mass leisure buildings (with strong occupancy difference between winter and summer). An architectural environment with undistinguished buildings, including some unfinished, resulting from the "urban explosion" that as a curse, quickly spread all the areas of the coast from the 1960s. An anonymous site, waiting for an event that somehow can articulate senses, becoming a starting point for a more desirable urban organization, but above all, taking into account natural and landscape possibilities that lie in such a privileged position. It is necessary, almost urgent, that the environment acquires significance in the coincidence between specificity and representation.

To generate a site to install in. And a whole urban planning criteria that regulates with the building erection. They do it together, urban space and building, to generate a new place, with all its accesses and connections, learning from what exists. Ethics needs to transform a non-place in a place.