CAM FRAMIS Museum / Jordi Badia

Nov 2009

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Project: CAN FRAMIS Museum at 22@
Location: Can Framis, 22@ District, Poble Nou, Barcelona, Spain
Architect: Jordi Badia
Project leader: Jordi Framis
Team: Daniel Guerra, Marta Vitório, Mercè Mundet, Miguel Borrell, Moisés Garcia
Collaborators
Structure: BOMA, Josep Ramón Solé
Installations: PGI engineering
Measuring and budget: FCA Forteza Carbonell Associats
Executive direction: GPO-Meritxell Bosch
Landscape: Martí Franch
Project Management: LAYETANA
Contractor: Construcciones San José
Client: Fundació Vila Casas. Layetana
Project: 2007
Construction: 2008
Area: 5.468 m2
Photography: FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

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.

Facade detail

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: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: © Fernando Guerra

: Location

: Lower level

: 1st level

: 2nd level

: Sections reference

: Section EAS2

: Section EAS3

: Section EBS3

: Section ECS2

: Section S02

: Facade detail

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Basulto , David . "CAM FRAMIS Museum / Jordi Badia" 09 Nov 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed 09 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/40219>

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theChavacano says:

he reinterpret the old building, and incorporate it into the whole design in a very clean way.

# November 9, 2009 at 16:45

oscar falcón lara says:

The exterior finish details are fascinating, and the floor plan is very unique in a normal sort of way, if that makes any sense; spaciousness and light are key here, along with a bit of the austere… the site location is well worth a mention …incredible.

# November 9, 2009 at 16:52

archilocus says:

Very museum-like but what set it apart is the connection by shape, material and interpretation of the old factory buildings to make the new building. Very neat and subtle. The part I like the least is probably the entrance where that connection seems less successful… like it anyway.

# November 9, 2009 at 17:44

l u c i a says:

i was there a few weeks ago…. is amazing!!! when you walk and you discover this beatiful building you feel much respect; the same respect as the architect felt about that old wool factory. i am totally in love.

# November 10, 2009 at 06:22

David Basulto says: