REHABILITATION SQUARE AND MARKET "PERE GARAU" IN PALMA DE MALLORCA

Date: 2009

Location: Square Pere Garau. Palma de Mallorca

Category:  Square and public market. 

Area: 7.756,00 m2.

Organizing Company: City council of Palma de Mallorca

Studio: Adolfo Pérez López  | Fco Javier Pérez Martín

Features:  Urban rehabilitation.

The action rearranges the site as a permeable space and passable in all directions allowing business meetings creating new spaces based on the diversity of uses.
Nature hides and appears in the urban space giving scale to the surrounding buildings and in turn hides the street of artisans. Nature hides, hidden nature leading to a sustainable environment.

The proposed new urban area with a performance intended to order it easily with the construction of two rotational parts which supports the new "Street Craft" saving the old market building allowing commercial activity in the works.

The architectural gesture SPACE DOUBLES existing computer with a variety of uses so that commercial stations coexist with folkloric handicrafts trade generating a space for meetings to revitalize the commercial economy of the area.