Ca l’Altisent Library: urban furniture to activate a public square
Intervention in the square of Ca l’Altisent Library, in Sant Climent de Llobregat, using 3D printed concrete planters, pots and a seating piece.
An intervention in a key space for the town’s cultural life
The project is located in the square of Ca l’Altisent Library, next to the Sant Climent de Llobregat Town Hall. It is a local public space linked to cultural activity, civic encounter and the everyday use of the town centre.
The intervention incorporates 3D printed concrete urban furniture to reinforce the square as a place to stay. The planters and pots introduce vegetation, organize circulation and add scale; the CADI chair creates a direct invitation to pause and remain in the space.
Compared with a conventional solution, Aridditive’s pieces provide a recognizable material language: contemporary geometries, the ribbed texture of 3D printing and a robust presence capable of integrating into public space without losing identity.
Vegetation, stay and human scale
Urban furniture for a more inhabitable square
The intervention combines planters, pots and seating to transform the square into a friendlier, greener space prepared for people to stay.
An intervention explained from the municipality itself
The intervention at Ca l’Altisent Library is part of a broader vision on how to improve local public spaces through design, innovation and new forms of manufacturing.
In this conversation, Roger Uceda from Aridditive and Jordi Pérez Condeminas, Mayor of Sant Climent de Llobregat, explain the value of the project and the role of 3D printed urban furniture in transforming everyday spaces.
Pieces that organize the space without imposing themselves
The distribution of the pieces accompanies the square’s natural circulation and creates small situations of use: waiting areas, meeting points, planted spaces and places to pause.
The pots and planters add volume and vegetation, while the CADI chair introduces a more direct scale in relation to the body. The intervention does not seek to fill the square, but to activate its use through precise, durable and recognizable elements.
In material terms, 3D concrete printing makes it possible to manufacture singular geometries without molds, maintaining a continuous texture that reinforces the identity of each piece and its link to the digital fabrication process.
AXIS, FLOR and CADI
The intervention combines planters, pots and seating to address vegetation, spatial organization and staying within a single urban landscape intervention.
AXIS pot
Four AXIS units incorporated as vegetation, rhythm and spatial delimitation elements. Their radial geometry adds presence without blocking the open reading of the square.
FLOR planter
Two FLOR planters introduce larger-scale vegetation and reinforce the relationship between nature, public space and digital fabrication.
CADI chair
A seating piece with a sculptural presence, conceived to invite people to pause and create a more direct relationship between the user and the public space.
FLOR · Scale variation
The FLOR family makes it possible to work with different scales, capacities and compositions, adapting to the needs of each urban space.
From piece selection to space activation
A contained-scale project, but highly representative of how 3D concrete printing can be incorporated into real urban interventions.
Reading the place
Analysis of the library context, existing circulation and areas with potential for staying, vegetation and encounter.
Piece selection
Combination of AXIS, FLOR and CADI to balance vegetation, spatial organization and everyday use in the square.
3D manufacturing
Production through 3D concrete printing, making the layer-by-layer texture visible as part of the project’s identity.
Urban installation
Placement of the pieces to activate the space without transforming it invasively, reinforcing its character as a public square.
What Ca l’Altisent Library demonstrates
A local urban intervention showing how well-placed small pieces can transform the experience of a public space.
A friendlier public space
The pieces create places to pause, meet and stay, bringing a more human scale to the library surroundings.
Integrated vegetation
The planters and pots introduce nature into the square, helping organize the space and enrich its urban reading.
Material identity
3D printed concrete provides robustness, durability and a recognizable texture, consistent with a new generation of urban furniture.
A square equipped to stay, meet and share
The result is a discreet but transformative intervention: the pieces do not act as isolated objects, but as a small urban infrastructure that supports the daily use of the square.
Ca l’Altisent Library therefore becomes a representative case of 3D concrete printing applied to urban landscape, urban furniture and public facilities. An intervention where design, vegetation, digital fabrication and public space work in the same direction.
Ca l’Altisent Library · Sant Climent de Llobregat
The intervention is located in the square of Ca l’Altisent Library, next to the Sant Climent de Llobregat Town Hall. A local public space where 3D printed concrete urban furniture helps strengthen encounter, staying and everyday use.
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