Casal Ses Veles
CASAL SES VELES
Duch-Piza Arquitectos
ARCHITECTS
Duch-Piza Arquitectos
CATEGORY
Library
LOCATION
Palma, Spain
YEAR
2009
PHOTOGRAPHS
Jaime Sicilia
Text description provided by architect.
Equipment which includes a community centre, a library and a sports track. In ground floor, a multipurpose room opens to a double height porch, contained within the building´s volume. The entrance, at the corner of two streets, directly confronts this gap.
A stair, at the side of the porch, provides access to the first floor, in which there are multi-purpose rooms and to the second, in which there is the library, occupying the entire floor and showing itself to the exterior as a suspended volume.
The curved section of the roof gives form to a skylight along the library, letting natural light bounce in and providing a uniform illumination. The outer face is prolonged, protecting as a great veil the rear facade of the building.
