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Royal Palace of Barcelona Renovation, Pedralbes BCN, Spain. With: Eulalia Serra & Pau Sola
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Reforma Palacio Real de Barcelona, Pedralbes BCN, España. Con Eulalia Serra & Pau Sola
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Public Competition: 1st place / Concurso Pubico: 1er Premio.
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| A competition
was set up to rehabilitate the Ground Floor of this emblematic Palace
in the outskirts of the city. The Palace was constructed as the local
residence for the Kings of Spain during 1929'World's Exhibition in Barcelona,
and stayed as their local habitation in the city until it was trespassed
to the local government a few years ago. It was build under an eclectically
thinking, where set designers were put to design individually each room;
it was partially transformed during the 50's, without a general agenda,
but following the idea that more expensive materials made better places. |
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| The overall proposal was to clean up all the cartoonish elements with
no historical value, and show what architecture can say. The neoclassical
scheme of the building has the charisma required and can easily be adapted
to the institutional use that the local government wants to implement
to the building. The
proposal defines several areas that will programmatically work as an ensemble,
and that can spatially be related to each other. |
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| The intervention
removes all the possible tapestries and odd paintings around the Palace,
and keeps the few valuable features to enrich key spaces; but in order
to give continuity to the ensemble of rooms, similar design strategies
are applied to all these spaces: continuous lighting or ceiling, interventions
on the connection points, or contemporary art pieces are the few elements
that are over imposed to the nude architectural structure. |
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| The project
wants to brush out unnecessary over-design applied over the years, and
let the place be want needs to be: a neutral and yet elegant envelope
to house institutional functions. |
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& solà-morales. avenir # 1 ppal 1a barcelona 08006 spain t:+(34)
93 414 37 14. f.+(34) 93 414 62 29. email: studio@ca-so.com |