Renovation Building "A" Complex Fabra I Coats · Sant Andreu
Renovation Building "A" complex Fabra i Coats · Sant Andreu
Glòria Duran Torrellas
YEAR
2011
LOCATION
Barcelona, Spain
TYPE
Cultural › Cultural Center
Pavilion from 1890, 120m longitudinal plant attached to the stone wall from original closure of the building. Over it rests the sloping roof made of Moorish, brick enclosures and flattened arch openings.
The intervention enhances the richness of the original compositional elements. The recovered wall inside becomes the protagonist.
The structure of metal beams mark the modulation, the pace and quality of space. The brick recovers inside the industrial character of the ship.
Creating new light roof ventilated. The opening skylights in each module allows natural light into the interior spaces and cross ventilation.
The facilities are hidden behind a false wall divided into two bands with indirect lighting that enhance the value of the wall.
The color treatment based on neutral tones highlights the brick and stone. Gray concrete pavement and the rest of elements are white.
