A group of architecture proposals for the island of Tabarca, exploring how inhabitants can become active agents in the design and transformation of their built environment.

Academic architecture project / ETSAM / 2021 / Enrique Sanz-Gadea

Persones a Tabarca brings together five architectural interventions situated on the Spanish island of Tabarca. The project approaches the island as a compact social and territorial condition, where architecture is understood less as a finished object and more as a framework for use, appropriation and collective transformation.

The proposal studies how small architectures can support changing forms of inhabitation while remaining connected to the specific atmosphere, scale and material presence of the island. Each intervention works as part of a wider reading of Tabarca, linking domestic, civic and infrastructural situations through a shared architectural language.

Rather than separating the user from the design process, the project explores how people can participate in the construction, occupation and gradual adaptation of the spaces they inhabit.

Plan drawing of Tabarca
Territorial plan of Tabarca and its immediate coastal condition.
Tabarca project image 1
Project view from the first series of architectural studies.
Tabarca project image 2
Spatial study for inhabitation and collective use.
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Architectural fragment developed as part of the island proposal.
Tabarca project image 4
Sequence of drawings and images describing the project atmosphere.
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Proposal study for one of the architectural interventions.
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Further development of the Tabarca project series.
Umbraculum plan
Plan study for one of the related structures developed within the project.
Umbraculum project image
Material and spatial test associated with the Umbraculum intervention.