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1 Slab 4 All Garden
Generic and specific: the parking lot and pedestrian access of the Albufera d’Es Grau Natural Park Interpretation Center in Menorca, built from one concrete slab that becomes pavement or bench.
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The initial proposal posed a unique generic solution: the realisation of all the elements of the parking lot and the pedestrian accesses with one single piece, a reinforced concrete slab made ‘in situ’, able to become either pavement or bench.
In the end, some specific situations could not be solved by the global rule: the pavement of the main entrance and the parking lot became exceptions to the general rule. In front of the main door a big irregular concrete doormat welcomes visitors from three different accesses, and in the parking area coloured asphalt surfaces allow, through controlled perforations, a natural ‘invasion’ of the hard surfaces.
Project facts
- Dates
- 2002 – 2008
- Client
- Consell Insular de Menorca; Govern de les Illes Balears
- Gross area
- 5.380 m²
- Coauthors
- Jesús Cardona
- Pictures
- Ferran Vizoso
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