The Intervention in the Domingo Gascón Square transforms a space formerly occupied by the municipal market back into its old condition as an open, public area. This also manages to house a public, recreational and semi-buried equipment of multiples uses.

From the beginning, the project was conceived as the possibility of making the “underground” visible, a construction devised as a radical manifestation of Madrid’s outskirts youthful spirit in general, and of Rivas´ youth groups in particular.

Recycling old public buildings to adapt them to new programmes attain here their maximum expression. The objective is to transform the old Town Hall, with all its municipal areas, in the new Youth Center. This entails transforming an inherited, rigid area, therefore conflicting with what a youth department programme in Madrid’s outskirts needs.