The design by Garcés de Seta Bonet Arquitectes and MARVEL maintains the existing warehouse virtually intact and adds a new building that extends the existing one and completes the program, connecting the interior of the turbine hall with the exterior spaces, with a technological skin capable of generating moving images visible from different points and scales.
"The empty Three Chimneys building displays great expressive power on its site. It is a landmark in the landscape from land, sea, and air; along with Montjuïc, it defines a vitally important stretch of coastline."
Jordi Garcés, co-founder of the Garcés de Seta Bonet Arquitectes studio.
Rendering. Catalunya Media City by Garcés de Seta Bonet and MARVEL.
Rendering. Catalunya Media City by Garcés de Seta Bonet and MARVEL.
E la nave va proposes open spaces that become places for leisure, exchange, and gatherings, equipped with green areas and elements of social interaction.
"We have designed a proposal that plays with connections and nodes: temporal, landscape, and territorial. Transverse sections will create this more porous and permeable block, allowing users and residents to pass through it to go from the city to the sea, and native vegetation will infiltrate through those interior voids. This facility will be configured as a connecting element between the coast of Barcelona and that of Maresme: for the first time, there will be an open balcony facing Badalona. The architectural elements will offer new landscape perspectives as if it were a work of Land Art."
Daria de Seta, co-founder of the Garcés de Seta Bonet Arquitectes studio.
The roof will give prominent prominence to renewable energy generation, with 4,500 m² of solar panels. This new layer will be a privileged location that will visually connect Barcelona, Sant Adrià de Besòs, and Badalona. The new facility will feature a new experience room where activities open to the public will be held, establishing itself as a metropolitan landmark and symbol of Besòs. It will incorporate significant improvements in accessibility to this area and the beach, designed not only for new visitors and users but also for residents of the surrounding neighbourhoods.
Rendering. Catalunya Media City by Garcés de Seta Bonet and MARVEL.
The project is designed to be an energy-efficient building, with a significant renewable energy output through photovoltaic panels that offset most of the energy consumed by the HVAC and lighting systems, thus contributing to the building's overall sustainability. The environmental objective of the project seeks to reduce the environmental footprint across all vectors throughout its entire lifespan. The building's design includes an integrative vision in all passive architecture concepts and seeks to reduce energy demand through bioclimatic control.
"Transforming an infrastructure that has had a significant environmental impact in the past into one that promotes the future of media collaboration, leveraging the existing structure to reduce the energy consumption of the new program, seems to us a key objective for the architecture of the future."
Jonathan Marvel, co-founder of MARVEL studio.
