La Carbonería Renovation / Office for Strategic Areas
Textual content material description supplied by the architects. The rehabilitation of La Carbonería owes its variety to the number of intertwined tales over a century and a half. Integrating this intangible legacy into the design has been as associated as consideration paid to its development, areas, and energy effectivity. A modest residential establishing constructed in 1864, it gained notoriety in 2008 when it was occupied and two large murals had been painted on its facade. Its pressured evacuation in 2014 made La Carbonería a graphic and political icon of Barcelona.
In 2015, the Barcelona Metropolis Council declared it a protected heritage web site as a result of the oldest standing establishing throughout the Eixample, the trendy metropolis plan conceived by Ildefonso Cerdá to extend nineteenth century Barcelona. All through its definition, there was a battle between Cerdá and the Metropolis Council on account of the latter promoted large avenues and symmetries reverse to the Cerdá Plan. The battle affected Narcís Tarragó, the distinctive promoter of La Carbonería on account of if the Metropolis Council’s plans had gone ahead, a boulevard would have modified the earlier Camino de Ronda that touched his plot. So Mr. Tarragó decided to position facades on all 4 sides of the establishing merely in case. When the great avenue was discarded, basically essentially the most spectacular facade of his establishing remained hidden and inaccessible in a yard for 150 years.
Heritage security required restoring the facades to their genuine state, along with the patio and its large dwelling home windows, although now they could solely face two blind partitions. Given that genuine staircase had been demolished, we constructed the model new one subsequent to the elevator throughout the farthest nook of the patio and linked them to the facade and each home by the use of “sky paths” that leap over the earlier Camino de Ronda, producing a three-dimensional communal space, a movement of people and outcomes that simulate the experience and altering imaginative and prescient of the boulevard that was in no way made. This decision moreover allowed us to design an additional home because of the space freed up contained within the establishing.
We maintained the pre-existing development no matter it not being needed, solely altering the Catalan roof slabs on account of that they had been in poor state of affairs. After the reinforcement work, the surplus of useful plenty was used to make the roof visitable and place a 1m-deep swimming pool on the central wall.
The broken footbridges are supported with out props or ties, by the use of a cross of beams throughout the plan, reaching a structural functioning that’s not evident at first look, nonetheless that allows further freedom of format in such a small space and a further ethereal search for the paths that consequence within the door of each home. The large development hooked as much as the get collectively wall is supported on the entry footbridge to the roof, which acts as a horizontal stabilizing beam, allowing passage by the use of it, on the underside floor and on the best floor, together with supporting the planters and their irrigation, the photovoltaic pre-installation, and a set of mirrors that direct daylight into the patio in winter.
The within distribution emphasizes the central wall, associating it with storage areas and companies, and two holes in it be a part of the within patio, the rooms, and the Cerdá neighborhood. This decision moreover ensures environment friendly cross air circulate and pure lighting that takes advantage of all of the picture voltaic path, contributing to energy monetary financial savings by the use of passive choices. Together with utilizing genuine, breathable provides and relatively pure finishes, corresponding to pine wood with wax and oil, a generous space with little have an effect on from dangerous substances is achieved.
By insulating the roof together with the carpentry and glass designed to insulate thermally and, above all, acoustically from the busy Urgell Avenue, an energy rating of B was obtained (on this case, the frequent consumption of decrease than 60% of the native frequent) with out the need so as to add insulation to the surface facades, thus avoiding hurt to the surface and reducing space throughout the inside.
By regulation, the street facade wanted to get nicely its genuine state, and it might need been unimaginable to maintain up the current mural on account of deterioration of the stucco. Efforts had been made to and the usual furnishings retailer of Mr. Garriga throughout the flooring floor of the establishing was preserved.
