Bahía de Algeciras Campus Library / OOOA

Text description provided by the architects. Initially, the client's premise of leveraging the site's existing slope to place a semi-basement parking lot largely conditioned the layout of the new building, forcing it to accept a future party wall on its longest side with an adjacent municipal property. Furthermore, the massive functional program required—which is completed with a floor of classrooms—would ultimately deplete the available open space and bring the building excessively close to the university's departmental building.