Collage Building

The Collage Building –Teresa Pàmies Cultural Centre– is an architecture of proximity, connected with the urban landscape and the social necessities of Barcelona.

The project works as a vertical city organized by horizontal layers, each one related with the others through perforations and voids. The building assembles different facilities: a nursery, a youth center, a library, a community center and an auditorium.

These five programs need a close relationship with the outside, but they have to share the same ground floor. The latter becomes a social place, permeable and active, which connects the surrounding city with the building and the public garden with the interior block.

The result is a collage of different parts, a promenade of urban episodes.