TABACALERA   

La Tabacalera, the tobacco factory, is an iconic building in Tarragona that, despite the intense activity of its past, is today empty and awaiting new uses. In 2017, the municipality of Tarragona launched a competition in search of strategies for shaping the city’s new cultural hub.

The scale of the intervention, similar to the British Museum in London, required projecting the proposal over 30 years. The first phases, however, already shift the common city axes and foster connection with the river, following its flow and locating the museum on the north face of the plot. The building is progressively incorporating other uses and widening the permeability of the plot in the east – west direction.