BAAS Arquitectura . Grupa 5 Architekci . renders: © Playtime
The building turns around a large central courtyard, which becomes the main space of the project. A natural and visual garden, which builds a particular microclimate, warmer in winter and cooler in summer, with trees, vegetation and flowers that will build a changing scenery according to the seasons of the year. Continue reading BAAS . Grupa 5
BAAS Arquitectura . renders: © Playtime
It’s clear that the current image the building shows doesn’t represent the dignity that its location on the Diagonal is due and that, in functional terms, the position of its core at the most privileged corner of its extension isn’t reasonable nor efficient. Accordingly, once a decision is taken to renovate the building, it makes sense to generally disregard the existing architecture in order to guarantee that the investment can be used to obtain a contemporary building that firmly responds to both the image of the institution and its strategic location on the Diagonal and that it is efficient from a functional and energy perspective. Continue reading BAAS Arquitectura
BAAS arquitectura . AIS . fotos: © Gregori Civera
The project stems from the desire to qualify the interior space and to integrate naturally with the scale of the surroundings.
The entire programme is located at street level, in a scheme of two lines of consultation rooms framing a higher room that receives light from the north from a high window. A classical three-nave section, resembling that of a chapel, where the gaze is directed towards the sky. Continue reading BAAS . AIS
BAAS . Moneo Brock . Casasolo
International competition for the desing of the new Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology BIST Headquarters. Located in the Antic Mercat del Peix, close to the Ciutadella Park, the project establishes a dialogue with the Pompeu Fabra University campus. A plinth that ressembles the old barrack buildings and an upper transparent volume dedicated to research. An inner atrium generates the image of the building and stimulates the relations between the different research groups. Continue reading BAAS . Moneo Brock . Casasolo
The building frees up the ground floor to form a meeting place, a multipurpose space open to the city, a plan that resolves the unevenness of the plot by building a plinth that integrates the existing wall and extends the public space from the access vertex to the historic building. Continue reading BAAS
