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01_EXTERIOR VIEW_ WAREHOUSE A-C. CANTILEVER
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02_ EXTERIOR VIEW_ WAREHOUSE A STREET VIEW
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03_INTERIOR VIEW_STAIR 1 GROUND FLOOR AND FIRST FLOOR
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04_EXTERIOR VIEW_WAREHOUSE A-C JOINT AND ACCESS
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05_EXTERIOR VIEW_WAREHOUSE A-C JOINT AND ACCESS
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06_ INTERIOR VIEW_ CONCRETE STAIR
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site plan
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Floors plan
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Can Framis Museum for the Vila Casas Foundation
BAAS arquitectura. Barcelona, Spain
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Name of work in English
Can Framis Museum for the Vila Casas Foundation
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Name of work in original language
Museu Can Framis de la fundació Vila Casas
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2011
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Work Location
Barcelona, Spain
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Studio
BAAS arquitectura
EUmies Awards 2011 Nominees
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.
Collaborators
Structural engineering: BOMA. Josep Ram; Others: FCA Forteza Carbonell Associats.; Engineering: PGI; Technical architect: Meritxell Bosch (GPO; Landscape architect: EMF Mart; Project management: LAYETANA; Construction company: Constructora San Jos; Promoter: Fundaci; Collaborator (office): Daniel Guerra, Marta Vit; Architect: Jordi Badia, Jordi Framis
Program
Culture
Completion
2009
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. 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.