David Baena, professor of Construction at the ESARQ - School of Architecture at UIC Barcelona, along with the rest of the team at BCQ, has been chosen to design Vic's new library on the site of the former Civil Guard headquarters.
Their design, submitted under the motto "Trees, books, fog and memory", was selected by a panel as part of the call for tenders organised by the Vic City Council, to which 56 designs were initially submitted.
The project proposes a building that unfolds into a garden which opens up to the city, with volumes arranged in such a way as to create distinct spaces inside the new library, following a desire to integrate the building into its immediate urban surroundings.
Citizens will see a new garden and an open library, the activity inside being perfectly visible from the street.
Under the proposal, the garden, in addition to serving as a place of rest and relaxation for library users, will be a memory garden, a commemorative space with ten large trees dedicated to the ten victims of the 1991 terrorist attack.
The first stone of the new building will be laid in late 2018.
