Carles Taché Art Gallery

Text description provided by architect.

A clear construction. The traditional construction of buildings such as this one has disappeared, or at least, buildings with this unity and spatial clarity are not built anymore. Nowadays, contemporary art is not hanged, it is installed.

Perhaps this is an antagonism to the constructive excess of the last century where museums of thousands of square meters have been built without a second thought.

The first impression of the old industrial enclosure called Espai Serrahima is a continuous addition of roofs, entrances, sidewalls and untidy artifacts.

We could say that the general disposition of the art gallery and the mixture between the new and the existing elements is a deliberate composition which creates a coherent family of rooms and spaces that change its scale, proportions and light quality.

The existing building is showed completely naked, while the new elements are reduced to an autonomous existence in its interior. This is the new interior order.

It is a meeting space between the visitor and the creator. The main point of the project is the absence of distractive elements.

This is a very important point for us, but also it is an important to know how to introduce other layers, such as volume, structure and materiality.

We have built a visual limit that but also a stage to act in. In the back, we find the backstage space, which includes the interior work areas, management, storage and some others exposition rooms that creates a collection of small spaces.

It is a clear space, with a regular geometry and a clear construction. The light travels through the ceiling. The heating and air conditioner facilities are exposed.

The old walls are simply painted white and the new ones are covered with plastered in order to create a calm continuity between the elements.