Environmental Education Centre by CrystalZoo

Description of project by its architects

The complex, with a multifunctional character, looks for dispelling seasonal tourism through a continuous cultural offer based on the idealization of the field.

We are based on making more human the terraced terrains, we bury our architecture in them, protecting the olive trees, vegetation that draws our intervention, highlighting only a building whose architecture drinks from the reflection of vernacular buildings and their materials. We reinterpret the “Riu- Rau”, a characteristic building of this area. The arches have been deformed and are placed in response to external incitements, such as views or sunlight. The roof becomes a folded sheet of bright colours, instilling optimism. In this way, the CEM is contextualized in its location thanks to the insertion of outdoor landscapes in the interior design.

The global project is the sum of three actions separated in time and developed in several phases, where the premise of each one was acting as a link with the other one and joining the existing landscape, creating an inseparable and perfectly connected complex.