Lleialtat Santsenca Civic Centre in Barcelona, Spain.

This project had three starting points: an understanding of the historic value of Lleialtat Santsenca (1928), an old working class cooperative in the Sants district; detailed knowing about the building’s (physical) state in order to maintain as much material as possible; and sensitivity to the collaborative process involved in the building’s recovery, launched in 2009 by neighbourhood organizations.

To this end, four basic objectives were defined: first, to make the most of everything that could be used from the original building; second, to define an operation strategy and the essential actions, either conservationist or additive, which would facilitate the recovery and enhanced the potential use of all the spaces; third, to enter an intense -and tense, if necessary- dialogue with the context; and fourth, to draft a sustainable proposal for work on both the pre-existing material and the new aspects.

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