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Street view of the library’s white façade with green window frames among the houses of Nerja’s old town
Entrance plaza with stepped seating Library interior opening onto a planted courtyard Reading room with timber bookshelves and a view of the sea

Concept design

Section through the library and axonometric view within the old town

Palette

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Nerja

Public library competition

An investigation into the contemporary uses of a library, rethinking spaces with the flexibility needed for future developments. The connection with the public space was also key, conceived as part of the project itself and resolved through a vernacular and bioclimatic filter.

The metabolic nature of the project is cut off at the ends of the plan, where it meets a transparent yet rectangular membrane.

An exercise in juxtaposition in front of the first cornerstone, the nucleus of laboratories, reminding us that stem cells, like life itself, function in a continuous dichotomy between the technical and the relaxed, between praxis and poiesis — and that both are merged under the same roof.

Location
Calle Iglesia, Nerja, Málaga, Spain
Type
Competition entry
Architecture portfolio