SCAR, Site for the Culture, Arts and Residential in Tarragona

SCAR as an acronym of Site for the Culture, Arts and Residential, but also as the healing process of an urban wound. Searching the recovery of an structure and the context landscapes, instead of considering it as the program of a building.

SCAR will become a new point of reference for the Old Town and the city, and the activity and flow of people will help to suture the two urban environments. A joint program, sum of public facilities of general interest with residences and private homes. Working as a new part of the urbanism, not as a closed piece. Take back the Old Town grain. The program delimits scale-controlled public spaces. From a big single space, we go to a sequence of three squares with different features and surrounded by activity. Seeking to integrate into the neighbourhood and its historical dynamics, as well as the maximum comfort for the users. This new focus of attraction, will energize the connections with the environment and reactivate the surrounding streets. SCAR is developed distributing the program in relation with the different needs of each activity. An skirting of public programs in relation with the streets. Parking and warehouses in the underground part, and residential part in the highest levels. Learning from the mistakes. Outside totalitarian solutions, trying to learn from the mistakes that have led us here, we propose a phase-by-step construction. Sum of different promoters over time. A progressive solution that grows adapting to the needs, will end up forming the totality of the SCAR.