ME WE Foundation
Location: Figueres

The Speech of Muhamad Ali at Harvard University in front of all the students, was the shortest of all history, and it had incredible power:
Comprising only two syllables, Ali’s ‘ME WE Foundation’ is one of the shortest poems ever written. This poem evokes a wide array of meanings with just two simple pronouns. Pronouns.

(Gupta, SudipDas. ME WE Foundation by Muhammad Ali. In Poem Analysis. https://poemanalysis.com/muhammad- ali/me-we/. Accessed 24 January 2023.)

To be “WE,” meaning us, citizens, society, humans, living together in this spaceship, as Bucky used to call our planet Earth, it is necessary to build, to create a STRONG ME.

“ME” means authorship, meaning personality, character, uniqueness, sensibility, our indigenous powers, routed, to our neighborhood, routed to our family, and traditions.

Location

We are in the city, it is urban
We are at the edge of the city
We are in contact with nature, at the pine forest
There is archive indoors and outdoors
There is phase 1 and phase 2
There is a total of 5.000m2 site
Phase 1 is 1.500m2 program
There is urban farming
There is land art, proposal by Frederic Amat
Walking distance from Gala - Salvador Dalí Foundation
Bicycle ride on the way to Castell de Sant Ferran
Topographic panoramic view

Site Visit, Camil Cofan and Enric Ruiz Geli
Existing Site Satellite View

Conceptual Program

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