IMPLUVIUM is big roof made of wood that is built on top of the stony base of a former market demolished after a recent fire.
The roof is an autonomous element that, together with four boxes arising from the floor and containing the servant spaces, conform the needed infrastructure that allows multiple events to happen, both spontaneously and programmed, under the same ceiling.
The plan is a square structured around an open-air courtyard, and the interior space is polarized by it, answering to subtle variations in its organization, creating specificity for each area within the continuous space.
A platform is opened to the city on the South side of the building. The operation in section allows the introduction of a mezzanine around the periphery that takes advantage of the natural light, offering areas with more privacy and reaching the maximum built area permitted in the site.
The variety of particular situations, IN and BY the courtyard, AROUND the space or IN FRONT OF the building, generates a great flexibility of use without loosing the specificity of the different scenarios.
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