The Solar is located in one of Guadalajara´s most cultural boulevard (Chapultepec´s avenue). By day it is a commercial and corporate zone, whilst by night lots of bars and coffee shops give the area different life. The concept is precisely to enhance the current non-stop transformation of people and activities, by providing a program that attracts people with different interests and most importantly: a program that remarks the pass of time day and night. In addition, it was important to provide a "multi-purpose" public square but due to limited size of solar, the only solution was to cover the indoor program with the outdoor program, just like a handkerchief extended on the volumes containing the indoor activities whilst outside, all over the building slabs and slopes, outdoor programs would take place.

          How to make this utopia possible is the aim of this project; the dualism of in and out, open but sheltered, building but park, etc. The best way to explain this, is imagining a building from above, where only the roofs could be seen, and the free space and relationship that it creates with the overview of the streets around it. So in order to keep as much “free roof/public space” as possible, the roof of the building is a continuous ramp or slope, under which all the inner program is contained. It is like a “Lego” construction covered by a handkerchief. The vertical fluxes are inside, and from the outer ramp, one can access them at any level. The indoor programs in multiple levels contain the library, parking place, offices, research and documentary center, the gallery, the two auditoriums and the services, whilst the open air scenes, terraces, coffees and bars are basically the epidermis of the building.