Business School (University of Alicante)

The enclosure towards the interior is made of glass and pivoting wooden slats that promote intense visual relations between the parts and a warm and differentiated atmosphere. The result is a sort of central cloister, open and closed, above and below ground level which, crossed by a bridge and permeable at up to six different points, is presented as a dynamic but serene space, with its own identity but in an intense relationship with the public space to which it opens.

The partitioning of the interior is resolved in such a way as to allow, through transparency, the continuous presence of the central courtyard. The final image of the building is one of purported cleanliness, the formal abstraction is reinforced by the suspension of the building above the ground and it is the construction that marks the lines of its execution on the façades as the only graphic elements on it.

The image of the Business School building reinforces the idea developed in its conception, the formal result being the direct result of the idea developed and the programme incorporated. The plain cloths, the pure forms, the essential geometry, the neutral colours, testify to the value of abstraction as a language.