Isidor Macabich Street & Square
Sta Eulària des Riu
The intervention is born from the municipal will to continue the transformation of the urban center of Santa Eulalia del Río in favor of pedestrians and merchants, with the renovation of the square and the street of Isidor Macabich. The aim was to recover a degraded public space, which presently belonged mainly to cars.
The first objective of the project is the replacement of the vehicles by people, recovering the public space of the square as a place of meeting and social interaction. The project shapes an open and versatile central space, delimited by three perimeter subspaces: a historic garden that hosts the canyon and the sculpture of the peasant woman, a playful space with water fountains and a space of rest and leisure in the shade of the newly planted trees.
Likewise, the traffic of the area is pacified, being reduced to one direction going up from the sea, promoting a new commercial axis that links with a series of pedestrian routes in the city center. The project incorporates a series of literary quotes by Isidor Macabich at different points along the way.
| Location | Santa Eulària des Riu, Ibiza |
| Year | 1st Prize competition 2013 |
| Completion date | 2018 |
| Surface | 5.660 m² |
| Budget | 1.943.470 € |
| Promoter | Ajuntament de Santa Eulària des Riu |
| Constructor | Hnos. Parrot S.A. |
| Team | Co-author Dani Roig Riera, architect. Toledo–Villareal, quantity surveyor. Roig Marí, facilities engineering. |
| Publications | HIC arquitectura. BETA arquitectura. Plataforma arquitectura. |
St Pere de Ribes Town Hall
The origin of the town hall building goes back to the year 1727, when the municipality acquired the land to build a hospital. This was finally built in 1804. In 1833 it was used as a town hall and in 1891-93 the construction works were carried out by the architect Bonaventura Pollés Vivó, giving result to the current appearance of the building in its noblest parts.
The scope of action encompasses three buildings: the town hall building, the Can Riba building and the annex building
The first two buildings were vacanted in the summer of 2012. The reason for the eviction was the affectation of the wooden structure of the main building by a plague of termites and woodworm.
To the right of the town hall building there is a third municipal building, called annex building, which is still partially in use on its second floor. This was not part of the initial commission, but was incorporated during the execution of the project.
The construction works are divided into three phases. The first phase is the one that is finished and in operation. This phase is the main one since the first and second floor of the the town hall building, have been refurbished and its surface expanded on the ground floor towards the west, the result of the demolition of Can Riba. It is worth mentioning the reinforcement of the structure and the new spatial distribution as highlighted interventions. A new vertical core is created inside the main volume, which solves its different levels, as well as the ones of the annex building.
The second phase consists in the renovation of the annex building (former Peace Court) and the second floor of the town hall building for administrative uses.
The third phase consists in the urbanization of the new plaza in the back of the building, providing a new access through the north face.
| Location | Sant Pere de Ribes |
| Year | 1st Prize competition 2013 |
| Completion date | 2018 |
| Surface | 1.765 m² |
| Budget | 2.319.227 € |
| Promoter | Ajuntament de Sant Pere de Ribes |
| Constructor | Cots i Claret / Closa–Alegret SA |
| Team | Mária Canel, Pilar Torres, architecture. Bernuz-Fernandez, structure engineering. Proisotec, facilities engineering. Toledo-Villareal & Eva Villa, quantity surveyor. Manel Gómez, site security control. Ferran Valls, rendering. Rehabilit SL, moisture and wood control. |