Three projects located in el Retiro park in Madrid…

As we get immersed in el Retiro and walk trough its paths, we find ourselves surrounded by the trees, water, light and air… These three projects are proposed as transition elements between nature and the monument which they are located next to

- PROJECT 1: An outdoors bath space in front of the Crystal Palace
- PROJECT 2: A building that brings back the ancient entrance to the Astronomical Observatory and tries to connect the Earth with the stars
- PROJECT 3: A dock and a Canoe School which completes the symmetry of the Alfonso XII’s Monument


1. OUTDOORS BATH

The bathing areas float over the water hanging from a light bridge that links the park’s paths. We can cross the bridge and continue our road through the trees or have a bath and enjoy the nature surrounding us.
A platform in front of the Crystal Palace and a few metal boxes which contain hot, tempered or cold water, or even steam…

2. SUN AND MOON’S PLACE

A building brings back the entrance to the Astronomical Observatory to its front… it prepares us to glance up to the sky…
The road starts on the Street and continues to the top of the hill…

If we get inside we discover a new world created to observe the Sun and the Moon…

exhibition halls that make people fall in love with outer space…
...The Sun gets trough the building as a light beam…
… a concrete beam projects its shadow as if it was a clock…
… Moon craters and stars spill over the walls…
… the sky penetrates the rooms…

… arriving finally to the Earth-Sun-Moon movement, a space that brings us to the front of the Observatory.

3. DOCK AND CANOE SCHOOL

A place that connects people with water, a transition between walking and sailing... Trees and air pass through the columns and the crystal boxes…
People, water, boats and canoes flow around... Different activities live together and take place at booth sides of the Alfonso XII’s monument located in the Royal Lake.

Three spaces that try to fit in the environment and work as transitions between paths, trees and water… or even between Earth and stars