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Architects: FLEXOARQUITECTURA
- Area: 200 m²
- Year: 2013
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Photographs:José Hevia
In the ground floor of a XIX century building situated in the Barcelona Eixample, we are asked to refurbish an establishment that has lost its character by the addition of different construction layers through time. We understand the project as an opportunity to recover what we consider essential: the spaciousness and the industrial character of the space by the reinforcement of its materiality. The intensification of the material memory is not a nostalgic or romantic attitude. We have chosen an unprejudiced and inclusive attitude, that doesn’t discriminate between this or that, but goes for this and that, our work, then, has consisted in updating the old layers and putting them together (in "vis a vis" relation) with the new ones.
