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Architects: EQUIP Xavier Claramunt
: EQUIP Xavier Claramunt, Martin Ezquerro, Pau Rodríguez, Marc Zaballa - Area: 4744 m²
- Year: 2010
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Photographs:Adrià Goula
Text description provided by the architects. The decision was taken to preserve a historic facade, despite the fact that it is not officially protected, and to insert the building between it and the party wall of the adjacent building. The new building treats the rooms as if they were shelves, using wells of the highly compact old district to afford a dramatic ambience to the common spaces, which are located below street level. The relationship of the neat and static facade, which yields a programme of conventional rooms with the other facades in the area, is imbued with a certain complexity and change. It uses a huge wrap that reflects the changing light of day on the facade of the new building.
