Building on the unique historic center of Palma de Mallorca is to recognize the opportunity, find the appropriate character of the city. The streets there show homogeneous, timeless, and carefully measured attributes preserved. Their openings range from vain exchanging private and public. The courts thrill, these centers apparently casual, always generous, nothing immediate. The tones, stone and light. The gift of subtle transparencies that intertwine its walls.

Our mission was to transform an old building from the forties, lateral appendage of the former convent of San Francisco, to the new headquarters of the Archive of the Kingdom of Mallorca. Respecting the body of the main street facade, listed by part of the careful sequence of monumental historical fronts, we were allowed to demolish everything from inside volume, surrounded by a perimeter of a highly fragmented building. An action so delicate and precise because of the dense surrounding occupation.

Build an Archive is to locate a treasure. Hosting the documentary history of the place, which must be protected, guarded, to be consulted, studied. Therefore, within areas must be accommodated for public use, but also attentively, it must be carefully conditioned to provide a safe, numerous documentaries container deposits.

Consequently, internal distribution is given by the logical sequence of accesses and routes. From the main street, and adapting the historical vertical elevation of three levels, areas of direct occupation of the public and staff are provided. Cultural and assembly applications on the ground floor.