With the implementation of this infrastructure in the environment of the marshes of Barbate two fundamental intentions were pursued, to address on the one hand the question of scale and on the other to approach a place. The building adjusts its scale by reinforcing the horizontality, seeking an appropriate landscape relationship with the natural environment, and incorporating both the memory in its roofs of the traditional salting sheds that still today occupy part of the visual references of the place. The access is built by delimiting the space on arrival, turning it into a small public space, a place for the development of activities with a more intimate character. This wooded area that introduces us with small dunes that change with the intensity of the winds, gives continuity to the interior void from which it is accessed, providing the appropriate identity and recognition of the public and open character of the building.

The different uses of the program orbit around this first access and control area, optimizing the routes and transition surfaces. The built pieces, in a continuous and measured relationship with the different areas open to the exterior, are conceived with different degrees of permeability and intimacy, allowing generous depths and registers of the whole set. The west end houses the changing rooms, administration, control and a sports hall, articulated around the lobby and the courtyard that filters and projects us back to the outside, while on the east side is located the volume of the pool vessels, built as an open space, illuminated with the warmth of its walls and beams dyed white that allow to save the large lights of the pavilion.

The materiality of the building is committed to recovering the use of traditional materials of the area, such as lime mortar in natural color. Texture and opacity of the flush walls with the tension of the glass that, depending on the incidence of light, nuance the entry of light into the interior.