The invisible impact
IED Barcelona – Student: Alicia Sirera
Academic year
2024/2025
Climate change and pollution, poor air quality, mental stress, and artificial light are some of the causes of the everyday skin problems faced by our current society. To counteract this, the student designs a skin regeneration center with a holistic approach located on the former site of the Gustavo Gili publishing house.
The proposal combines architectural strategies like air filtration, natural materials, and thoughtful plant selection with therapeutic programs that activate the senses and promote dermal rest. Every plant, texture, and volume is designed to relieve the most aggressive urban factors: pollution, stress, noise, and artificiality.
A layered path is created to guide users through a process of cleansing, breathing, and reconnection with the essential. It becomes a place that heals through environment rather than product, through shared experience rather than clinical space. Architecture becomes skin.
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