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PUERTO POLLENÇA (MALLORCA)
Competition equipment of public spaces in Puerto Pollença (Mallorca North). This Project was presented in 1986.
In colaboration with the architects

Enric Miralles, Carme Pinós, Pedro Bonet, J. A. Cortés

Notes

The cut produced by the new road is the beginning of our project...

On both sides the land and vegetation rebuild an artificial...

This intervention transforms us into spectators of a landscape that was previously under our feet

Here begins our work.


1 - From the city build a new profile that landscaping the silhouettes of the mountains. From the road pass through this garden tells a special area of the town.

2 - A new ground in a phased and continuous double tiers defined streets for games:

Ideally the covers could be anywhere on these streets, we chose a pace that gives us: a small square at the beginning. The sports pavilion and pool in the urban area are a continuation of a profile built ... define alternate placement locations ideportivo game outdoors...

The lateral passage is the place defined by these activities and their profiled gardens...

Since this step a mast light the playing area, playing the maximum length of the place and in a lower level the lights go ...

Lamps, fruit trees, banks are with us ... to the playground less conventional water sources, cover shows, pergola ...

At the intersection a restricted passage of vehicles is allowed.

3 - We arrived at the place defined by the presence of this old canal surrounded by pine trees that brings us closer to the beach. AIII an outdoor place, a great room: a box of surprises, one side can be opened completely, workshops, bar, library, nursing home, clinic ...

They are something like an ideal community.

Not a park, a place ...

is how the urban structure is shown in its ultimate limit ...

we are privileged spectators outside our limits ...

Inside, a succession of images successively fragmented. It is not a building complex: a land in which we buried, covered to give rise to these activities so far not had to put ...

The aim here broken, and thinking of those we have worked to reconstruct the craft ceramic mask pretending not broken cracks but resiguiendo sutures with gold thread.