Design Studio: Daniel Gómez Magide, Eduardo Dipre Mazza, Miguel Ángel Díaz González
Project name: Muimenta Multifunctional Community Center
Location: Carballeda de Avia, Ourense, Spain 
Dimensions: 214 square meters

The project by architects Daniel Gómez Magide, Eduardo Dipre Mazza and Miguel Ángel Díaz González is part of a strategy to boost the economy of the rural ecosystem of Muimenta, a Galician village threatened by depopulation, through widespread initiatives to enhance services and rehabilitate productive land and buildings. The intervention carefully reinterprets the site’s terraced topography and existing features to house a new civic centre adaptable to multiple uses, from professional workshops to training, from a day centre to recreational activities. Two main operations: the restoration of the two-storey building, destroyed by fire in 2018, serving as a link between the different levels of the site, and the construction of a new pavilion at an intermediate level, featuring a wooden portico and tiled roof, set against a historic stone wall and serving as a reception area. Inside, the fluid and flexible spaces feature structural and finishing elements in light wood that interact with the textural patterns of the existing stone surfaces, creating a new, recognizable layer of historic stratification. The project is complemented by the restoration of historic structures — the traditional raised granary, the wells and the boundary wall — as well as consolidation and landscaping work carried out using reclaimed materials from the site, through a circular process that further anchors the project in its context.