The project attempts to express, with an architectural gesture, the beauty of the geography of Algeciras: the bay, The Rock and the Straits of Gibraltar, the proximity of Ceuta and Africa, the oak forests that surround the city… For this we propose a construction that, from one single body, splits into two towers from one great public viewing platform. This body opens strategic holes in the most notable topographical accidents, establishing a physical relationship with them, while the section is organized as a building-up of privacy which increases with height. The programme feeds itself from this relationship with the physical medium: a museum of the Bay of Algeciras and the Straits of Gibraltar make the base of a publicly managed Industrial hotel that is meant to promote new industries and businesses that are linked to the the port’s activity. On top of it, there is a sports club that is dedicated to physical culture. A group of residential or professional lofts crown the whole. A mixed façade is envisaged, with strips of glass alternating with others that are made of recycled cellular polycarbonate, which protects ventilated wall cavities or end translucent areas. When it forms a wall cavity, this element protects a sheet of natural cork that serves as insulation in such a way that the whole acquires an ambiguous and evanescent presence, transparent and translucent -with the associated nocturnal effects- but also natural and artificial, tectonic and immaterial, a conglomeration whose image wants to represent the sensibility of contemporary society towards the city and the land.
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