New building for a library, archive and radio station is a winning proposal by Sumo Arquitectes and Taller 9s for Ajuntament d'Argentona designed in 2020. It is located in Argentona Spain in an old town setting. Its scale is medium with a surface of 4495 sqm an estimated budget of 6.270.000 € and a ratio of 1.395 €/sqm. Key materials are glass concrete and wood. Graph collaborated as visualizer.

The new building is inserted in an existing void in the heart of the old town, a sensitive place from an urban and heritage point of view. The building is structured according to the rhythm of the historical plot of ‘cases de cos’ and the volumetry adapts to the existing partitions and urban gaps, and generates a new urban axis, following the traces of an ancient mine, where the entries to the building are solved. A double-skinned façade is also modulated according to the pre-existing urban rhythm, and dialogues through ceramic material and earthy tones with the nearby buildings and with the neighboring ‘Puig i Cadafalch’ house. A new courtyard to the west becomes a bioclimatic garden that visually extends the library and provides it with natural ventilation and good lighting.

2675-T9S-ES-2020 — Posted in 2020 — Explore more projects on cultural cultural center education and library — Climate: mediterranean and temperate — Coordinates: 41.555118, 2.400638 — Team: Sumo Arquitectes (Jordi Pagès, Marc Camallonga, Pasqual Bendicho), Taller 9s (Oriol Cusidó, Irene Marzo) — Consultant: Arguijo, Joan Olona, MAFO — Views: 2.911