On the 175th anniversary of the Public Library of the State in Girona, Lluís Moran, architect, and Lourdes Reyes Camps, librarian and philologist, present the building and its architectural and cultural characteristics. At the end, a visit is made to the Palau Montaner building.

Lourdes Reyes Camps, librarian in a family saga with this vocation. Also a philologist by training.

Teacher at the school of librarians-faculty of librarianship for 20 years in the public library area and manager in the same field for 17 years. Within this facet is where she relates to the BPG, from when she was service coordinator for 3 years and later director for 5, at the time when the center had to start the transfer and the opening to the new headquarters This project is the one he has enjoyed the most in his professional career. A present.

He currently works at the Directorate of Training Services of the Provincial Council of Barcelona.

Lluís Moran, born in Terrassa (Barcelona). In 1998 he graduated as an Architect, at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the Vallès ETSAV.

His professional practice focuses on the development of projects and the construction management of public buildings, through constant participation in competitions, occasionally developing projects in the private sector and industrial design.

Partner of Mario Corea architecture between the years 1998-2000. Partner of Korea Moran architecture between 2000-2010. Partner of Moran + Guerrico between 2010 and 2014.

2015_ He currently develops his professional activity at the moran_arq architecture workshop in Poblenou in Barcelona. On occasion he has collaborated teaching as a professor at several universities in Spain and abroad.

Its architecture is thought of as materializing a multidisciplinary process. He is interested in the built fact (the work), the materialization of constructive detail, light and the relationship with the outside.

Among the works done, it stands out: the Moises Broggi Multipurpose Hospital. 2020-2021; the State Public Library in Girona 2009-2014; the Sabadell Indoor Athletics Stadium 2006-2010; Mollet Hospital 2005-2010; the rehabilitation of the steamer Vacarisses 2006-2010, or the CAP San Genís 2003-2007. Among the competitions with projects not carried out, it is worth noting: the second prize of the competition for the Baix Llobregat Intermodal Station (AVE) in 2008, or the first prize of the Palau de Congressos y Exposicions de Burgos, in 1998.

He is currently developing the new Teixonera external consultation building for Vall d'Hebron General Hospital.

The Public Library of the State in Girona Carles Rahola, the largest of the network of public libraries in Catalonia, is located in a central and spacious lot with a surface area of 3,100 m2 surrounded by residential buildings on one side and with to the north with the wide Avinguda Emili Grahit.

Construction of a new plant, inaugurated in 2015, multiplied by seven the surface occupied by the previous space. It is a building in the form of a cube, with a square plan, a volume of elementary geometry with a translucent glass facade and openings with transparent glass in the interior courtyards that together provide a filtered luminosity. The work of the architects Mario Corea, Lluís Moran and Sebastián Guerrico, as it gets dark and at night, the library is a light box, an urban lamp. Light, the main protagonist.