Our proposal focuses on the necessary recovery of the landscape and ecological-environmental values of the former San Rafael Salt Flats. For this, the building comprising the Museum, Library, and Water Garden becomes a large constructed salt flat, a landscape-building that avoids stridency with the environment, highlighting such exceptional qualities of the area, as its privileged position facing the Bay of Almería. The metaphor of the salt flat is adopted, where a sheet of water presides over the roof of the building buried in a slight topography like a desert dune. A large water-covered roof, which provides the museum complex with unity and is perforated to generate a large courtyard full of light, the Water Garden.
