location: Plaça d’Europa. Es Pujols. Formentera. SPAIN
promoter: Consell Insular de Formentera
Architect: Marià Castelló Martínez
building engineer: Xico Ribas + Héctor Martínez
structure: Ferran Juan
collaborators: Sonia Iben Jellal, Marga Ferrer, Guillermo Arnau, Carmen Navas-
Parejo, Alberto Climent
builder: VIAS y Construcciones
project: 2009
end of work: 2012
surface: 3018 m2
photography: Estudi Es Pujol de s’Era
The intervention aims to provide 136 parking spaces to the coastal area of the
village of Es Pujols, which concentrates the major part of tourism on the
island of Formentera.
In order to release the pressure of road traffic for pedestrians in the entire
area of the Plaza de Europa, it has been developed a building of 3018 m2
completely buried whose cover forms a public space.
The simple geometry of the plant helps to optimize the use of the surface and
only altered by an annex of facilities, whose facade is the result of the
creation of the access ramp at the middle of the northeastern end of the
building. Behind this unique building facade are located the control center,
bathroom, water deposit and fire fightihng facilities.
Inside, the regular program of the isotropy functional and structural system
have only an exception on the insertion of a longitudinal patio which absorbs
the regulatory needs of natural ventilation, while visually connecting the
parking level with the public space of the Plaza de Europa. This longitudinal
section also represents an important source of natural light and houses inside
the evacuation elements and vegetation that bring to mind the existing
indigenous pine forest before the urbanization of the area.
Thus the user, after parking the vehicle, intuitively directs himself towards
this central court guided by natural lighting, and from there, goes to the
upper plaza through the stairs or the elevators. Also at the core of the
elevator it has been placed a cash machine located in the central section of
the yard.
In the realization of the building clearly dominates one material: concrete,
put in work in different ways: in situ (slab foundation), prefabricated
(pillars, wrought special auction items, planters and retaining walls), in
small slabs (pavement ramp) and a composite panel (facing the elevator core and
part of the facade of access).
The resulting interior space is of great constructive simplicity and sincerity,
reversing a general harmony. The structure is also partly enclosure and left
visible. The facilities have been studied to relate to the structural grid and
allowed to view, to appreciate its beauty.
The natural ventilation strategy through the longitudinal courtyard and have
opted for LED lighting zoned, optimize energy efficiency and reduce maintenance
costs.
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