The new Cultural Center and Library of Legnano is located on the edge of the Falcone Borsellino Public Park, bordering the urbanized fabric, located to the northwest, within the former industrial area "Cantoni". The Legnano library, because of the formal characteristics that define it and the location in which it is located, is identified as an urban building, at the same time as a pavilion of the park itself.Towards the park, the building builds its limits and gives it a new identity. It defines itself towards the park, as a counterpoint to the city front, an open, light and immaterial architecture, reflecting the park and making it its own at the same time.The interior space synthesizes the volumetric, structural and distributive components, proposing a spatial sequence that allows users to have an overview of the interior even though it is functionally divided.This synthesis takes place through four elements: the compact form, the division of the space in the center through the connecting cores and the service that become structural elements, the double height of the space after the entrance that allows a transversal look and finally the glazed courtyard system that shapes the spaces allowing visual continuity despite the functional division.

The project is drawn up as large outlook onto the campus, and the whole organization and arrangement of uses are indebted to this idea. The users will be able to enjoy views of the campus and its buildings from this raised platform containing the swimming pools.The access to the pool through the most elevated area allows to accommodate the main functions in a single floor. The complementary ones – dressing rooms and sanitation services - are organized following an L-shape. All of them within an itinerary conceived in material terms as a slightly opaque one, defined by the smaller scale of the uses therein contained. Embraced by these are the poolside spaces, glazed and open onto the campus, “floating” beyond the structural and functional limits imposed. The ends of this platform, whose interior contains areas for resting after exercise, are cantilevering volumes (spanning approximately eight meters) that seem to escape the base anchored to the ground so that the users may feel as if they were flying.This light platform of water that hovers over its surroundings contrasts with its strong, solid granite base. This base endows the swimming pools with facades, aside from accommodating the systems and other necessary services. From the exterior, it is perceived not only as the facade of the building, but as a pre-existing base of topographical nature that is anchored to the subsoil, so defining the raised outlook character of the public level. The other central argument of the project is the roof. The large outlook has a clear, powerful and attractive roof, of large spans and an internal geometry in accordance with the existing deep beams. A roof that allows to generate rich spaces and light nuances – the roof has a skylight – that enhance the overall image of the complex. During the project design a special attention was paid to the water space that was to be generated, it had to be efficient but also appealing and sensual. In this sense the roof plays an essential role.

The project is located in front of the University Hospital of the University of Navarra, separated by a road with a lot of traffic and in an area that is elevated with respect to the remaining campus, which looks southwards. From this spot one can see almost the entire complex.The program includes offices for three different departments that are part of the University but function autonomously, and that attend frequent visits from students but also from people not connected to the University (hospital clients, for instance). The size of the plot encouraged to design a linear building. In the interior, the three departments are structured as independently built “volumes” articulated by double-height landscaped spaces that perform as access and information areas. The facade is glazed, but it tries to gather certain “materiality” with the construction of a wooden framework that gives the enclosure a certain “body”. To muffle the noise from the nearby road and reduce the level of warming of the south facade, the wooden facade is covered with one of glass, so generating a space that helps to control temperature. The desired result is a rational building representative of the values of “modernity” and “efficiency” that the University stands for.

A school complex in an area of new buildings outside Pamplona. An area where the urban design has given priority to the park not only as a mechanism putting order to the housing development, thereby ruling out any other urban structure fictitiously imposed on a new core with no preexisting constructions nor continuities with the existing city, but also as something that has brought facilities together in one place, as in a university ‘campus’. So the park is given a true urban role, with functional contents supporting and justifying it. A school complex, hence, that rises not on a lot, but on an already laid out park that ‘amiably’ allows a new building in it; a building, in fact, that far from being inhibited, will come to be another element in the park landscape.Moreover, the park, the views, the light, communication with the outside… all perfectly relate to the school, the children. The project is structured and organized in an open way.Two units – for preschool and primary school – are set apart and facing each other, joined by wooden footbridges that connect with and lead to the sport facilities at the center. They differ in form but are structured similarly. The first to be carried out is the preschool unit, where a large linear element contains the circulation and access elements and presents itself opaquely to the immediate environment of dwellings, and a comb, of linear or square elements depending on function, opens on to the park, incorporating through its routes and glass a view of it and the perception of light.Through concrete, the linear communication elements present themselves to the outside as opaque. Glass, white sheet metal, and white ceramic shape the ‘combs’ containing classrooms, the library, the sport gymnasium, dining rooms, etc.