Project designed in collaboration with Jordi Queralt i Suau, architect.

The project for the new Library and Archive in Llançà has the will of becoming a new center and meeting point for the town. Laying the building in a closed shape to the north allows to create a large urban space protected from the main winds and a large porch facing south, which gives shelter and shadow an at the same time becomes a meeting point and the main hall of the building.

The hall of the building, which crosses it from north to south, becomes a thin limit between inside and outside spaces so the entrance to the building is done in a natural way, making the access to knowledge and culture easier for the citizens. This constant visual relationship between the inside and outside is enforced by laying the library spaces around a courtyard. This courtyard gives natural light and ventilation to the building and improves the quality of the spaces. The volume of the archives is placed above the entrance level and gives a symbolic character to the building, because all the users are going to walk beneath it at the moment of getting into the hall. The exhibition room and the multipurpose room are provided of sliding walls so they can modify their sizes depending of the requirements of the events. Both of them are linked to the hall, so they could be opened to it if necessary. The new building for the Library and Archive of Llançà sets up as a symbol of the knowledge, at the town entrance, shaping the street with the Europa avenue, creating a big square and becoming a new cultural reference for the entire town.