Estudio Herreros, SLP

Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery

CARRERAS MÚGICA CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY

Estudio Herreros

Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
© Adrià Goulà
Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
© Adrià Goulà

MAIN CONTRACTOR
Eizategui

PROJECT DIRECTORS
Juan Herreros, Jens Richter

PROJECT MANAGER
José Baldó

LOCAL ARCHITECT
E2 Arquitectura, Germán Hurtado

PROJECT TEAM
Carmen Antón, María Franco, Abraham Piñate, Víctor Lacima, Leonardo Tamargo

LIGHTING
Antón Amann

STRUCTURES
Eduardo Barrón

PHOTOGRAPHS
Adrià Goulà

AREA
900 M²

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Bilbao, Spain

CATAGORY
Cultural Architecture, Gallery

Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery

Text description provided by architect.

A former warehouse occupies the heart of a housing block in the centre of Bilbao.

The access leads through a tunnel that crosses the residential grid.

Around a grand central exhibition hall that forms the heart of the program the auxiliary spaces like storage, administration, artwork handling, meeting room, experimentation and services are distributed.

Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
© Adrià Goulà
Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
© Adrià Goulà

The architecture leans on few materials – the fair faced concrete structure, continuous industrial floors, White walls levitating over recessed skirtings, a few pieces of furniture – to build the elemental ingredients of an exhibition space –floors, walls and ceilings- leaving it to the artworks to define it.

Both natural and artificial light build the space, both rigorously adapted to each exhibition and the scenographic argument responsible for the specific personality of the project.

Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
© Adrià Goulà
Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
© Adrià Goulà

Lines of fluorescent light, the reinterpretation of the original system of skylights that are building a new industrial landscape on the roof, are enlacing the past with the future of a surprising place.

Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
© Adrià Goulà
Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery


Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
Floor Plan
Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
Roof Plan


Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
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Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
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Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
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Carreras Múgica Contemporary Art Gallery
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Estudio Herreros, SLP
T +34 911 781998
Estudio Herreros, SLP
C. de Boix y Morer, 6, Chamberí, 28003 Madrid, Spain