WEAVING CONTINUITY

Our building serves as a hub of connections that bridges the fragmentation present around Parc de Charles and Ciutadella Park. We wanted to encourage interaction among the public through our circulation while also addressing the necessity of an enclosed archive space. The proposal not only physically bridges the neighborhood together, but also socioculturally. The nature of the program demands a system of classification and a weaving

3rd YEAR - SPRING 2022

of public and private spaces to encourage areas for interaction while maintaining the required standards of security. On the exterior, our facade displays an aggregation of diverse elements borrowed from the surrounding context of Barcelona, including references to transportation systems and nature from the nearby parks. It’s meant to express the convergence of artifacts and identities on the building’s interior and invert that organizational system to the building’s exterior.

The aluminum on the facade represents the interconnected network of artifacts on the interior and their organizational system.

In terms of massing, the form is organized by two datums that converge in the atrium. Artifacts, Workers, and visitors all enter through different points of the building, but moments of interaction are woven together at the intersection of these axes. The public entrance will allow guests to view portions of the storage area when entering, and then encourage circulation along the horizontal axis to view exhibition spaces.