EMPÚRIES

RECEPTION BUILDING OF THE EMPÚRIES MONUMENTAL COMPLEX. GIRONA

The program foresees a service building with ticket sales, multipurpose room, shop, cafeteria-restaurant and services. The area where the new building is planned is located in the extreme southeast of the ancient Roman city, in front of the current public parking lot and overlooking the whole of Neapolis.

A building is designed that uses the existing difference in level between the upper level of the road and the lower level of the esplanade to build a single underground floor with a flat grass cover, thus reducing the visual impact of the new construction.

The architecture of the new building does not aim to emulate or integrate with the strong architectures present in Empúries but, on the contrary, proposes a building that is part of the gardens that surround these ruins, therefore a “natural” geometry is proposed. in continuity with the existing topography.