LA MAR UPM (2020-2021)

La Mar consists of a museum of the sea, a building without expositions or exhibition rooms located in the island of Tabarca, Spain.

The museum of the sea is an opportunity to get to know better the island and the ecosystem that surrounds it. A place where you can feel, smell and hear the sea... A space between walls and under a roof, where there are no rooms or exhibitions, but where the magnificent sea is being represented.

An irregular shape located at the southern end of the plain, a route where the scarcity of openings makes the viewer remain almost dark, an infinite corridor enclosing a courtyard that hides a portion of the island, from which you can not see the sea, but you can feel it. Each opening is a strategy. A moving painting.

Underground plan

Concrete is the only material, creating a contrast that impacts with the natural colours of the place and the lightness of the sea, while respecting the brutality of the rocks and the wall. The building adapts to the topography, taking advantage of the unevenness of the land to generate a slope along the route and a double height. In this, it is where a shop and a restaurant are hidden below the rocks.