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The colonnade-relief on the west facade serves the dual purpose of shading the interior and accentuating its public character towards the pocket square through its depth and expression.
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A flexible commercial program should be retrofitted into a former bank building presiding over a pocket square directly adjacent to Plaza Colón in Madrid.
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Despite its coherent appearance, the four facades differentiate themselves by reacting to their boundary conditions. To improve pedestrian interaction, we moved the entrance from the plaza to the street.
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The small relative size was seen as an opportunity to activate the roof as extension of public space, creating an attractive urban device that would allow the building to play a greater role in the urban ecology.