Exterior view

Rather than occupying the site as a closed object, the proposal releases ground to construct a vegetated public plaza that acts as an interface between city and architecture. This void is not residual, but foundational: a civic threshold where shade, vegetation, and human scale generate a climatic and perceptual transition. The plaza extends the Palmeral into the urban fabric, dissolving the boundary between nature and city, and establishing a new civic center grounded in permanence and everyday use.

Upon this open plane rests a dense yet excavated architecture, a horizontal mass carved by patios, cuts, and voids that introduce light and ventilation in a controlled manner. The project is defined not by the addition of volumes, but by the precision of the void. As in the agricultural landscape that inspires it, architecture is organized around what is allowed to pass through: air, shadow, movement. The building breathes, filters, and regulates, producing a gradual and sensorial spatial experience.

Exterior view

At its core, a clear internal geometry organizes the program: a T-shaped structure that arranges the auditoriums around a shared stage. This decision transforms functional efficiency into a spatial principle, enabling multiple configurations without compromising the coherence of the whole. The architecture thus becomes inherently adaptable—capable of accommodating different scales and uses—while remaining grounded in order and formal economy.

Circulation is conceived as an interior topography, a continuous system of ramps, stairs, and platforms that wrap around the main volumes and construct a dynamic experience of the building. Far from secondary elements, these paths become public architecture: spaces of encounter, pause, and perception. Movement becomes part of the narrative, and the building reveals itself through displacement.

View of the cafe

Light, as in the Palmeral, is never direct. It is filtered, reflected, and fragmented. Skylights, double skins, and vertical voids produce a calibrated illumination in which shadow becomes architectural matter. The resulting atmosphere avoids spectacle in favor of luminous calm, reinforcing the character of the place. Here, shadow does not conceal; it defines.

Materiality follows this same logic of belonging and abstraction. A clear duality is established between the heavy and the light, the opaque and the permeable, evoking the relationship between trunk and canopy. The bases and enclosed volumes are built with high thermal-mass materials, earthy tones, and mineral textures, anchoring the building to ground and climate. In contrast, circulation structures and filtering elements adopt lighter metallic materials in muted green hues, engaging with vegetation and shifting light.