Punt dansa seeks to recover the idea of a model dance school, specifically in Banyoles, and to create a point of connection between dance and its cultural environment by combining two needs: on the one hand, having a suitable space for this art and, on the other, reviving a unique space that was dead until now.
The project designs the school on the ground floor and the surroundings of the building. A preliminary project has been made for parking, administration and an annexe apartment in the basement and on the first floor.
The school is characterised by the treatment of the building and the spaces, at all times enhancing the natural setting and opening up to the outside (the lake on the west façade). The linearity and visual effects boost this idea from the moment you enter the school (always through the east façade). Everything has been planned taking functionality into account and the spaces are treated ambiguously, with an austere and delicate language in which white, wood and transparency dominate. As important elements, a second façade and an internal core connect and harmonise the parts of the building, while a large fixed piece of furniture governs the school floor and stores and hides mobile mirror partition walls that create the different dance hall space options, the main weak point of present schools.
