The new office of the Museum of History of Barcelona (MUHBA) by BAAS Arquitectura is located in the former mechanic - metallurgist factory, built in 1920 in Poblenou.

BAAS Arquitectura's main idea was to liberate the space of the factory to obtain by this way a maximum flexibility, respecting the basilical floor, and taking advantage of the space for the zone of exhibitions with a constant tour. In the project they use the steel sheet as material of intervention and to construct the necessary elements for the adjustment of the space.

Description of the project by BAAS arquitectos

Once the old nave has been consolidated and protected, while the works are not restarted to build the new MUHBA headquarters, it was decided to open the precinct to the general public. For this reason, it has been designed a temporary bathrooms and it has been prepared an exposition that wants to be like the exposition that we will see in the future.

The project wants to solve the intervention in one easy action. It proposes a huge hanging lamp in the middle of the space, drawing a ring of light that separates the outer perimeter, that hosts a large period exposition, from the inner one, that hosts temporary exhibitions and presentations.

The lamp is a big size element to assimilate the scale of the building. It values the richness of the interior textures and the basilical section of the building.

 

Read more
Read less

More information

Label
Architect
Text
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Collaborators
Text
Jero Gutiérrez + Andreu Egido (project manager), BAAS Arquitectura + ALbert Romagosa Design Cabinet (graphic design), Rogel Castro, Joaquín Coronas, Xavier Gracia, Iñaki Gargallo, Sara Vidal.
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Area
Text
1456 sqm.
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Dates
Text
Completed in 2015.
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.
Label
Venue
Text
Carrer d'Espronceda, 142-146, Barcelona, Spain.
+ + copy Created with Sketch.
- + copy Created with Sketch.

Jordi Badia (Barcelona, 1961) graduated in architecture from the ETSAB (Barcelona School of Architecture) in 1989. Between 1989 and 1993 he practiced a professional partnership with Tonet Sunyer. In 1994 founded the BAAS architecture study, Jordi Badia combines his professional task of an architect with that of a professor at the Department of Architectural Projects at ETSAB since 2001 and at ESARQ-UIC since 2009. He also collaborates to the newspaper ARA since 2010 and is editor of the Hic Architecture since 2009. Along with Felix Arranz, he curated the Catalan and Balearic Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale 2012.

The practice is currently working on various projects, including the town hall in Montroig del Camp, the headquarters of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and 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 Radio and TV University in Katowice, Poland.

Read more
Published on: July 16, 2015
Cite: "Intervention in Oliva Artés factory by BAAS Arquitectura" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/intervention-oliva-artes-factory-baas-arquitectura> ISSN 1139-6415
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...
Loading content ...