Polytechnical Institute Salesianos Pamplona, Sarriguren, Spain | 2020, Carlos Garmendia, Spain

Architects: Carlos Garmendia, Álvaro Cordero, Pedro Garmendia, Iñaki Tanco, Imanol García de Albéniz, Daniel Azpilicueta
Client: Polytechnical Institute Salesianos Pamplona
Photographer: Pedro Pegenaute

The project addresses two complicated issues. On the one hand, it organizes a highly complex program mostly originated from functional diversity, and on the other hand, it is an answer to an uncertain and difficult urban context.

The new building location is a result of this context. It responds to the needs of the existing city and attends to its future development. Thus, the building complex has been designed to minimize its impact by fading out when approaching the city, a soft connection with the city boundary.

A project organized through a sequence of voids that break, cut, and shape the general volume, organizing pedestrian flows, solving the height difference of the site, and allowing a new dialogue with the urban context. A design process that bridges the scale differences in order to integrate the new building with the surroundings and generate within it countless diverse spaces that enrich its own use.