Murcia Artillery Barracks Car Park

Initially, the commission consisted only of fixing the upper part of a space that was to be used as a car park. As the project progressed, we felt that there were two essential facts we had to work with: light and ventilation. And we thought that these elements should be natural, and not achieved by mechanical processes, which we considered more sustainable, and more ethically coherent.

This was the start of the project. The eggs that were made on the surface and that allowed for this light and ventilation became increasingly important. This increase in dimensions brought together what was happening above and what was happening below, which therefore activated the entire section of the project. It was no longer just what was above on the surface, or what was below on the subsoil, but also the relationships between those parts.

The development of the project in this direction made it increasingly explicit that this surface could be a special place. So we thought that this emerging space could be understood as an urban space on the edge of the city, a place that would establish itself in a very interesting way as an artificial green space as well as an urban space, and as an urban space that could be the access to the natural green space of the future Parque del Oeste. This mix of urban and natural was very interesting.