Teruelzilla Outdoor

Teruel, Spain. 2013. CLIENT: Ayuntamiento de Teruel

In Teruel, about 300km east of Madrid, a dilapidated market and square were transformed into a subterranean leisure activity space. Users can access the volume at the city’s central square, where it breaks through the ground with an open mouth. Below lies a fiery red liar made largely of steel and concrete.

‘This big buried volume pushes away the earth’s surface, cracking it to produce a new urban topography,’ says Carmelo Rodríguez of PKMN architectures, which collaborated with Mi5 architects on the project.