Salt Hall

The salt pans flood. The hall stands above them on concrete piers, so the ground stays as it is and the building reads as a visitor.

The site in Aveiro set the terms before we drew anything. Flat land, bright light and salt in the air. Everything exposed had to cope with all three.

One long gallery, a workshop and a café share a single mono-pitch roof that rises toward the water.

We worked from a 1:50 model for most of the design stage and kept it on site through construction. Where the model and the drawings disagreed, the model usually won.