ParcBit Trade Centre, Menorca

As a response to the conditions of the lot and the program a compact building is proposed, with a single hall and a staircase core for each phase developed around a patio, a space with similar features and dimensions to Alaior’s historic core.

The entrance is placed at the southwest corner, where the building bursts generating an exterior porch with double height that visually communicates public space, the hall and the central patio. The common services take up the body of the west façade, open to the square, the interior patio and connect directly with the hall, The horizontal circulation space, articulated from each floor’s hall, has been treated like a central street with natural lighting, crossed views over the patio and expansions in the presence of the hall and the staircases.