PILARIN BAYES LIBRARY IN VIC (BARCELONA) | BCQ arquitectura barcelona, slp

A friendly building is proposed, which unfolds around a garden open to the city.

The articulation of the volumes responds to the desire to create differentiated spaces within the new library: rooms of a domestic dimension that ensure the comfort and tranquility of the users. All reading rooms in the area of knowledge are oriented to the garden.

Citizens will see, from the Passeig de la Generalitat St., a new garden and an open library, whose interior activity will be perfectly visible from the street.

It is proposed that in the garden there are ten large trees, one for each one of the victims of the 1991 terrorist attack*. Thus, the garden is, above all, the commemorative space that pays tribute to the victims of terrorism, but it is also a space that can be used by library users as a space for relaxation and rest, to read in the shade of trees. Its slight inclination towards the interior causes that the plant -1 obtains excellent lighting conditions besides having an access independent of the main access.

The garden also serves to convert the library into a particularly sustainable building. Indeed, the microclimate created by the deciduous trees, together with the mechanisms of environmental control of the façade, significantly reduces the energy consumption of the building, using passive means that do not imply any technological sophistication.