MUSEO CAN FRAMIS DESIGN BY BAAS ARCHITECT
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MUSEO CAN FRAMIS DESIGN BY BAAS ARCHITECT
The new Fundación Vila Casas museum is located in the 22@ District,
an area where Barcelona City Hall has promoted a full redevelopment of a former
factory/heavy industry zone by substituting premises with light service
industries. It is now primarily a high-rise, heavily built-up area housing
service/hi-tech industries.
With "Can Framis" we aim to play on contrasts, with a surrounding garden providing a tranquil breathing space away from the hubbub of speed and time. The mainly-paved garden will have many trees and winding paths which will embellish the cloak of ivy which already covers the environs and in the future will enshroud the building and trees.
The two buildings to be preserved have little architectural worth and are currently derelict. Their main interest lies in the contrast of their location, based on the former agricultural sketches prior to the implementation of the Cerdà plan at a level of 1.5m below the current road.
The project consists in restoring the two current factory buildings and constructing a new one which will link them, coinciding with the site of another former warehouse which - as a whole - will form a courtyard, paved with stones recovered from the former factory, which will be the main entrance to the museum.
Visitors will begin on the highest level and continuously move downwards through semi-lit areas, which will then light up to showpiece the exhibited pieces.
Wood appears copiously on window frames, staircases and between the buildings, as well as on the painting support screens, in reference to the material of the canvas frames.
Outside, the lime mortar which blends with the existing stonework merges with the exposed concrete of the new buildings. The façade then becomes a collage of textures, niches and coverings which reflect the different ups-and-downs of the building throughout time.
With "Can Framis" we aim to play on contrasts, with a surrounding garden providing a tranquil breathing space away from the hubbub of speed and time. The mainly-paved garden will have many trees and winding paths which will embellish the cloak of ivy which already covers the environs and in the future will enshroud the building and trees.
The two buildings to be preserved have little architectural worth and are currently derelict. Their main interest lies in the contrast of their location, based on the former agricultural sketches prior to the implementation of the Cerdà plan at a level of 1.5m below the current road.
The project consists in restoring the two current factory buildings and constructing a new one which will link them, coinciding with the site of another former warehouse which - as a whole - will form a courtyard, paved with stones recovered from the former factory, which will be the main entrance to the museum.
Visitors will begin on the highest level and continuously move downwards through semi-lit areas, which will then light up to showpiece the exhibited pieces.
Wood appears copiously on window frames, staircases and between the buildings, as well as on the painting support screens, in reference to the material of the canvas frames.
Outside, the lime mortar which blends with the existing stonework merges with the exposed concrete of the new buildings. The façade then becomes a collage of textures, niches and coverings which reflect the different ups-and-downs of the building throughout time.
I had quoted some photographs from Francisco Nogueira for Museo Can
Framis. You may see more photographs to visit his web page too.
BAAS ARCHITECTURA
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BAAS is an
architecture and design studio set up by JORDI BADIA in 1994, made up of
professionals from different fields, to develop architectural, urban planning
and interior design projects. The office is complemented by a network of
external collaborators who work on aspects such as structural calculation,
installations, quantity surveying and landscape architecture.
The practice’s habitual fields of work are projects for public administrations
and private clients, in similar proportions. Outstanding projects include the
funeral services in Leon (AR+D Prize) and Terrassa, CH House in La Garriga (FAD
Opinion Prize), the IBERCON corporate building in Palma de Mallorca, the law
courts in Sant Boi (Catalunya Construcció Prize), Ferrer i Guàrdia School in
Granollers (FAD finalist, NORMABLOC third prize and awarded with the IV Vallès
Biennale of architecture prize), and Can Framis Museum for the Vila Casas
Foundation in Barcelona (BEAUXI finalist, awarded with the Ciutat de Barcelona
prize, FAD Opinion Prize, finalist of the 6º European Landscape prize Rosa
Barba).
The studio has recently completed two social housing; two health
centres in Salt and Badalona; Els Gorgs secondary school in Cerdanyola, Sant
Josep School in Sant Vicenç dels Horts, La Bóbila School in Cambrils and SS
house in Mallorca.
The practice is currently working on various projects, including
several apartment buildings in Barcelona and Majorica and facilities and
institutional buildings such as the town hall in Montroig del Camp, the
headquarters of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre or the new premises of The
MUHBA (Museum of History of Barcelona) in Poblenou district, Barcelona.
The office is also working on the citizens building in Palamós, the
extensive rehabilitation of Alta Diagonal office building in Barcelona and the
Silesia University’s Radio and TV department in Katowice, Poland.
BAAS has won various
awards for its buildings (FAD awards, Ciudat de Barcelona Prize 2009…) and It
has been featured in numerous specialist publications (Architectural Review, El
Croquis, A+U, Casabella, etc.). It has also been invited to present its work at
conferences around the world ((Paris, Toulouse, Ljubljana, Hong Kong, Krakow, Budapest,
Lisbon, Zagreb..).
In September 2007, BAAS was awarded the ISO 9001 quality
management standard.
