“Estación Goya” Green Mobility Hub, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Competition, First Prize, 2026
with Miguel de la Ossa

The intervention in the former Goya Gas Station represents a new opportunity for Vitoria-Gasteiz: to return to the city a jewel of its industrial architectural heritage and transform it into a green mobility hub and tourist information center that promotes the city’s contemporary values. The proposal seeks to restore and give a second life to this heritage asset through a reasonable and coherent construction strategy that respects the historic building in all its complexity and spatial richness, while engaging in dialogue with it through a contemporary, honest, and sustainable architectural language.

The project embraces the building’s typology: it understands how the building originally functioned, what made it unique, and the dynamics it generated, and it reproduces those same logics through a new program. The open-plan ground floor once again becomes the covered plaza that welcomes visitors upon arrival; the open reception area functions like the original attendant’s booth, guiding and welcoming users; the ramp once again becomes the building’s circulation route; and the skylight once again illuminates work that requires precision. The new building is, in essence, the same building as always—renewed and reopened to the city.

This is a low-impact intervention, with controlled costs and construction times, reflecting contemporary values of reducing resource consumption, reuse, and recycling, while turning the construction process itself into a public and educational act. The proposal highlights the building’s most distinctive spaces—the ramp, the open-plan floors, the skylight, and the attendant’s booth—and returns them to the city through a new program that transforms the building into a place for everyone. Ultimately, it is a Hiri Tailerra: a workshop for building the city.