The Studio
The team’s studio is located in the factory silos over four floors connected by a spiral staircase.
Reflecting the company’s culture, the highly functional floor layout encourages team work and provides a perfect environment for individual concentration and creativity.
Ricardo Bofill’s office on the first floor is a minimalist space with 4 meters ceiling height and pristine white walls and carpet.
Furnished with RBTA designs, except for the vintage wicker Thonet chairs, the workspace is a bright and spacious open floor plan flooded with natural light and a view looking into the gardens.
The underground galleries contain the model workshop and the archive rooms.
The doors, windows and decorative elements are clear references to a cultured, historical architecture, in contrast to what might be described as the industrial vernacular of the original factory.
La Catedral
As part of the creative renewal and adaptative reuse of the cement plant, the factory hall was transformed into a conference and exhibition room, generous in size with floor to ceiling heights of 10 meters.
With slightly oxidized surfaces, the raw concrete walls preserve the industrial aesthetics and spatial quality, the memory of the structure’s former use.
The minimal architecture intervention in La Catedral is aesthetically striking and visually strong, with very few pieces designed by Taller Design: a wood and steel conference table, black leather sofa, chairs and armchairs, a steel and glass coffee table and a smaller meeting table under the huge hoppers.
The Gardens
Once the spaces had been defined, cleaned of cement, it was necessary to provide a green plinth to the remaining volumes; plants would climb walls and hang from the roofs.
The site, largely covered with grass, is bordered by groups of eucalyptus, palms, olive and prune tree, mimosas, and climbing plants that wrap the exposed concrete walls, giving the building this mysterious aspect of romantic ruin that makes it unique and unrepeatable.
The Residence
Cosmopolitan by definition, Ricardo Bofill returns always to the factory, that old industrial building that he never ceases to renew for the past forty years, enlarging and embellishing its spaces as writing the history of his life, a biography in constant evolution.
“The factory is a magic place which strange atmosphere is difficult to be perceived by a profane eye. I like the life to be perfectly programmed here, ritualised, in total contrast with my turbulent nomad life”
In the upper part of the factory Ricardo Bofill transformed a huge volume of brute cement into the main living room. It is a perfect cube with a sequence of arc windows whose regular rhythm evokes the metaphysical perspectives of De Chirico.
“Domestic, monumental, brutalist and conceptual”, that’s how Ricardo Bofill defines this room of enormous dimensions.
The kitchen-dining room located in the ground floor is the meeting point for the family. In the middle of the room, a white marble rectangular table supported on ironwork legs surrounded with Thonet chairs, seat and backrest with wickerwork. Two-sided fireplaces designed by the architect Oscar Tusquets, add warmth, charm, and ambience to the room.
With traditional Moroccan wall finish, the “pink” room on the middle floor of the house provides a smaller and more private living area. Designed by the studio, the generous rectangular dining table was made of one single piece of Alicante red marble. Same material was used for the coffee table in front of the black leather sofa. The chairs and stools are re-editions of Antonio Gaudi’s designs. A large fireplace dominates the room.
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The team’s studio is located in the factory silos over four floors connected by a spiral staircase.
Reflecting the company’s culture, the highly functional floor layout encourages team work and provides a perfect environment for individual concentration and creativity.
Ricardo Bofill’s office on the first floor is a minimalist space with 4 meters ceiling height and pristine white walls and carpet.
Furnished with RBTA designs, except for the vintage wicker Thonet chairs, the workspace is a bright and spacious open floor plan flooded with natural light and a view looking into the gardens.
The underground galleries contain the model workshop and the archive rooms.
The doors, windows and decorative elements are clear references to a cultured, historical architecture, in contrast to what might be described as the industrial vernacular of the original factory.
La Catedral
As part of the creative renewal and adaptative reuse of the cement plant, the factory hall was transformed into a conference and exhibition room, generous in size with floor to ceiling heights of 10 meters.
With slightly oxidized surfaces, the raw concrete walls preserve the industrial aesthetics and spatial quality, the memory of the structure’s former use.
The minimal architecture intervention in La Catedral is aesthetically striking and visually strong, with very few pieces designed by Taller Design: a wood and steel conference table, black leather sofa, chairs and armchairs, a steel and glass coffee table and a smaller meeting table under the huge hoppers.
The Gardens
Once the spaces had been defined, cleaned of cement, it was necessary to provide a green plinth to the remaining volumes; plants would climb walls and hang from the roofs.
The site, largely covered with grass, is bordered by groups of eucalyptus, palms, olive and prune tree, mimosas, and climbing plants that wrap the exposed concrete walls, giving the building this mysterious aspect of romantic ruin that makes it unique and unrepeatable.
The Residence
Cosmopolitan by definition, Ricardo Bofill returns always to the factory, that old industrial building that he never ceases to renew for the past forty years, enlarging and embellishing its spaces as writing the history of his life, a biography in constant evolution.
“The factory is a magic place which strange atmosphere is difficult to be perceived by a profane eye. I like the life to be perfectly programmed here, ritualised, in total contrast with my turbulent nomad life”
In the upper part of the factory Ricardo Bofill transformed a huge volume of brute cement into the main living room. It is a perfect cube with a sequence of arc windows whose regular rhythm evokes the metaphysical perspectives of De Chirico.
“Domestic, monumental, brutalist and conceptual”, that’s how Ricardo Bofill defines this room of enormous dimensions.
The kitchen-dining room located in the ground floor is the meeting point for the family. In the middle of the room, a white marble rectangular table supported on ironwork legs surrounded with Thonet chairs, seat and backrest with wickerwork. Two-sided fireplaces designed by the architect Oscar Tusquets, add warmth, charm, and ambience to the room.
With traditional Moroccan wall finish, the “pink” room on the middle floor of the house provides a smaller and more private living area. Designed by the studio, the generous rectangular dining table was made of one single piece of Alicante red marble. Same material was used for the coffee table in front of the black leather sofa. The chairs and stools are re-editions of Antonio Gaudi’s designs. A large fireplace dominates the room.
#Spain, #Adaptation , #silo , #Structural_Consolidation #Structural_Consolidation , #cathedral , #Apartments , #lighting , #interior_design , #stair , #landscape , #Offices , #studios #Restoration #Structural_Consolidation
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Awards:
2018 : Leading Culture Destination of the Year
2018: Museum of the Year
2017 : Fulton Award: Innovation in Concrete
2015: Safety awards
- South Africa’s contemporary art museum, Zeitz MOCAA, has been named ‘Leading Culture Destination of the Year’ at the 2018 Leading Culture Destinations Awards.
Dubbed as ‘The Oscars for Museums’, the awards shine a light on the world’s cultural hotspots, with cities and organisations honoured for effectively engaging in culture and tourism.
- The International Architecture Awards is the oldest, annual public celebration of global architecture organised by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd. This year’s awards celebrates over 100 new buildings from 31 nations.
- Maintaining the existing structures whilst combining it with innovatively placed new concrete substructures, selective demolition work and recycling make this building a celebration of concrete both as a historical and as a new, innovative building material.
Innovative and complex concrete placement and formwork techniques together with a variety of the latest laser-guided concrete-cutting and removal techniques were used. Newly cut and angled edges were polished to expose the original aggregate and steel reinforcement to great effect. This enabled open spaces in which the old and the new stabilising concrete work remain in contrast yet harmoniously fit together. In continuing the theme of paying homage to the silo’s industrial past, the original concrete both externally and internally was cleaned and has been retained as its most visible finish.
This unique project is a deserved joint winner of the Fulton Award in the “Innovation in Concrete” Category.
- Safety awards for V&A Waterfront’s Silo District development
2 500 000 man hours without a loss of time incident reached in recent weeks
Construction at the V&A Waterfront’s Silo District reached some impressive milestones in recent weeks: 2 500 000 man hours without a loss of time incident (LTI), and four construction safety awards for the work underway in the district.
#South_Africa , #museum , #hotel , #silo , #interior_design , #industrial , #public_space , #lighting , #structure , #concrete , #award , #stair
@revitalization
2018 : Leading Culture Destination of the Year
2018: Museum of the Year
2017 : Fulton Award: Innovation in Concrete
2015: Safety awards
- South Africa’s contemporary art museum, Zeitz MOCAA, has been named ‘Leading Culture Destination of the Year’ at the 2018 Leading Culture Destinations Awards.
Dubbed as ‘The Oscars for Museums’, the awards shine a light on the world’s cultural hotspots, with cities and organisations honoured for effectively engaging in culture and tourism.
- The International Architecture Awards is the oldest, annual public celebration of global architecture organised by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd. This year’s awards celebrates over 100 new buildings from 31 nations.
- Maintaining the existing structures whilst combining it with innovatively placed new concrete substructures, selective demolition work and recycling make this building a celebration of concrete both as a historical and as a new, innovative building material.
Innovative and complex concrete placement and formwork techniques together with a variety of the latest laser-guided concrete-cutting and removal techniques were used. Newly cut and angled edges were polished to expose the original aggregate and steel reinforcement to great effect. This enabled open spaces in which the old and the new stabilising concrete work remain in contrast yet harmoniously fit together. In continuing the theme of paying homage to the silo’s industrial past, the original concrete both externally and internally was cleaned and has been retained as its most visible finish.
This unique project is a deserved joint winner of the Fulton Award in the “Innovation in Concrete” Category.
- Safety awards for V&A Waterfront’s Silo District development
2 500 000 man hours without a loss of time incident reached in recent weeks
Construction at the V&A Waterfront’s Silo District reached some impressive milestones in recent weeks: 2 500 000 man hours without a loss of time incident (LTI), and four construction safety awards for the work underway in the district.
#South_Africa , #museum , #hotel , #silo , #interior_design , #industrial , #public_space , #lighting , #structure , #concrete , #award , #stair
@revitalization