Situation and location

The project for the community center of San Bernabé offers a building-street, which tries and transmits civic values inherent to the urban structure of the neighborhood. Thus, the specific uses of the functional program are located in dispersed volumes, arranged along a guideline, configuring a street that function as such, and that is the heart of the project.

Exteriors

This building-Street is conceived as a framework for the relationship and the expression of individuals and the community so that it will be getting stronger as the citizens start to discover it and living freely in it too. Besides, it attempts to bind with the web of existing neighborhood streets, prolonging, therefore, their most common routes and giving priority to pedestrians over the traffic. This street built within, acts like the backbone of the built bodies that house the functional program of the community center and responds to an urban vision as a whole, in this sense its journey is punctuated by three spaces of quite a length which may be called squares, each one of them linked to an adjacent activity.

On the other hand, the whole project is conceived as a bioclimatic infrastructure which tries to obtain its levels of comfort by combining the local natural resources, both climatic and material ones, leaving the contribution of conventional machinery as a complementary provision to meet only extreme heat spikes throughout the year.

Sustainability and circular economy