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Emotional Heritage Installation / Flores & Prats

Benjamin Zapico — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 02:00:00 +0000

The installation "Emotional Heritage" is structured around four themes that explore the subject, and presents six projects by the Catalan architectural duo. The themes serve as a guide for visitors to navigate through the graphic material displayed on tables and containers. The four themes are:

The Morning Chapel / Flores & Prats

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0000

An island.
To be on an island and then inside a garden, allows a state of being where one's mind can drift to a peaceful place of reflection. The garden in San Giorgio has a fan structure of walks, starting from Palladio's Cloister towards the Lagoon. The Morning Chapel is along one of these long paths, and sits right before this walking line meets the water.

Sala Beckett / Flores & Prats

Valentina Villa — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 15:00:00 +0000

The project occupies the former social club "Pau i Justícia", deeply rooted in the memory of the neighbourhood Poblenou, a space where long ago neighbours had celebrated marriages, first communions and parties, which was abandoned for many years. Now its doors open again and these neighbours must recognize the spaces in their memories at the same time that the building has been adapted to the new program: a theatre and a dramaturgy school, a place to celebrate the theatrical creation.

Centro Cultural Casal Balaguer / Flores & Prats + Duch-Pizá

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 22 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Casal Balaguer is a palace of the historic center of Palma, a flood over the centuries family home, starting in 1300, then in 1500 and finally in 1700, which now loses its household to be a public building, a cultural center for the entire city. To value the times contained in the building, without taking physical distance with the historical stages that have shaped its qualities, allows us to act without departing from him: if observation do not distinguish times, the action must not have distances. We act from within it, a physical and direct thought, transforming the building with the decision to re-occupying it, giving it a new era of longer life making it more sustainable. Having drawn the building for a long time let us decide on it, and in this sense the drawing gives us the confidence to work on what was found without physical and temporal distances with the story, in a continuous time which makes new interventions get incorporated appearing to our eyes as if they had already existed. The end result is a new generation, with legacy and new things, a job that takes the strain existing and draw from it. It is a geometric metamorphosis, but also of materials, proportions and dimensions.

Mills Museum / Flores & Prats

Javier Gaete — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The new artefacts on display merely emphasise the great dimensions of the building, which is capable of assimilating giant volumes and at the same time reveal the perfection and enormous presence of the vaults. These elements appear sketching again and again the profiles of the original building, in plan and section, adopting its own geometry and repeating in the manner of an echo. For this reason, the new shapes and volumes appear as fragments of the same construction. The screens adhere to the walls and generate a reverberation of light as it penetrates the interior, an echo of the walls that retains it there next to the walls... The old openings have been transformed into small chambers that house objects on display, conferring a specific shape to this light before it is lost in the vault of the mill.

Edificio 111 / Flores & Prats

Javier Gaete — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This building of 111 social dwellings is placed in the eastern limits of Terrassa, looking onto an open landscape. The proposal turns the inside space of the block into a semi-public square, essential for the life of the building: all the inhabitants enter from the street through this central square, a place of crossing paths, a meeting place. From here you enter into the staircase vestibule and then into the flats, through a progressive sequence of scales.

Yute's / Flores & Prats

Jonathan Alarcón — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Yute’s project is an extension of an existing textile warehouse, in an industrial zone close to Barcelona called Sant Just. This is the only building with colour in an area with a subdued tone, mostly dominated by concrete. The project aimed to provide colour to give character to this place, where people come to work every day.

Microsoft Milan / Flores & Prats

Jonathan Alarcón — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

In 2007 Microsoft Italia chose to establish its headquarters in a rural landscape characterized by the seasonally shifting pattern of agricultural production. The proposal focused on the condition of agricultural fringe, an opportunity to create a transition; to create a meeting point between two technologies, working the fields and working with computers. These two realms of technology develop in parallel, with neither prevailing over the other.