Pamplona Square 

Originally isolated in a large area of more than 6,000 m2, the mansion was short-lived as a residence and, at the end of the 1950s, it was occupied by the Institute of Theoretical Physics, a research foundation, which built a series of small buildings there without any guiding criteria.

What the project proposes at the moment is the introduction of a commercial tower of significant proportions – 18,000m2 – associating it with the redesign of the very concept of this scientific research center and the preserved building, with two main objectives in mind: unity, integration between its segments and balance of the whole.

Emphasizing the originally existing access, the project defines a long axis of penetration into the area that, while allowing the integration of the dissociated segments of the plot, articulates the urban roads that delimit it, Silvia and Pamplona Streets, also articulating, in its path, the set of buildings to be implanted and the open spaces. This is an orderly layout of great importance for the overall structure of the new environment.

The Research Center occupies the heart of the plot, delimiting the open spaces there. Next to the right-hand side, at a lower level than the main access and the level at which the pre-existing residence was built, and with only 3 floors, it operates as a plastically significant plan on the scale of the square.
The theater, on the other hand, was built in a recess of the plot, independent from all the other buildings, and its expression is essentially from the central squares.

Due to its different formal characteristics, it tends to attract plastic perception in the central area of the plot without, however, establishing any formal link with the pre-existing building. As mentioned above, it relates directly to the Research Center on the lower level defined by the lowered square.