Why Barcelona? And which block?
The project is not interested in Barcelona in a classical urban, contextual analysis sense- the white building remains completely self-referential and therefore it doesn’t matter in an urbanistic sense which Barcelona block it occupies.
Barcelona gets interesting as site because of 2 different reasons- first it offers a very rigid, repetitive, background setting / the white ground/ which is for me the grid – and second as a reference to Mies, and the famous Barcelona pavilion- another white building on white ground- as it is reconstructed and mainly experienced through photographs and media presence.
The specific block I choose is determined by these 2 factors. It is positioned in a relative middle position along the mirror achsis that is determined by the grand via and two significant round abouts. Espanya and Placa de Tetuan.
My project proposal operates in a constant reference to Mies, and I want it to be read like this but it also claims to become its own design position through the introduction of the contemporary building type notion of the building envelope.
This page contains a single entry by Ina Marie Kapitola published on May 18, 2009 7:09 PM.
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