The plot line of these three interesting projects aims to generate an architectural space of a more geological nature than "built" one and more typical of the infrastructural image than the work with "new plant" finishes.
The three projects of the stations of line 9 of the Barcelona Metro, designed by the study directed by JJordí Garcés, are Amadeu Torner, Parc Logístic and Mercabarna, propose a project resolved with the minimum, trying to let getting out most of the conditions of space, construction and materials, bringing us closer to the world of the subsoil.
 
"What was impressive was the recognition of and intelligence applied to the reading of the pre-existence, treated as an archaeological site. It is a modern ruin worked in an almost museological or scenic manner. The options chosen for the lighting, the location of the controls, the signage, the acoustic panels and the inlets of daylight give the interiors a great sense of nobility."
Jury’s evaluation. FAD Award to Interior Design 2016
 

Description of project by Jordi Garcés

The projects of the Amadeu Torner, Parc Logístic and Mercabarna stations of Line 9 point to a proposal that, with the minimum means, gets the most of the conditions that are typical of a metro construction.

We want a more geological space than a built one, following the classic logic that the "place", in the deepest sense of the term, is fundamental in the resolution of any architectural program.

Therefore, the use of the smallest number of materials is proposed, taking advantage of even those that are already present in the civil-structural work, such as the walls-screen, the props of the construction, the prefabricated floors, etc ...

The materials that appears in the work will be: the walls-screen seen, the metallic sheetings, the stone pavements, the industrial lighting that assumes different forms: linear, punctual-domestic, punctual-ornamental, etc ... the handrails and glass elevators, stone benches such as pavement and steel bins, TMB own furniture: ticket machines, tariff barriers, information signs.

Another theme of the project turns around the requirement to close the convoy doors when it is in the station. This fact is integrated as a positive element for the general composition of the proposal. The enclosure becomes total and the project becomes a facades exercise.

Entire facades that look for an absolute control of the sections. In short, a strategy to control the spaces: accesses, lobbies, platforms and the metro area. The convoy arrives through an interior that is connected to the platforms of the public at the exact moment it is parked.

The set aim to be: timeless, not subject to figures and fashion materials of good aging and easy maintenance that maintains a certain aspect of space-emptiness even if there is a large audience.

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Garcés-de Seta-Bonet
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Collaborators
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Construction manager.- Ferran Casanovas. Architect.- David Morentin. Quantity Survayor.- Jordi Espriu.
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TEC-4 .- Ferran Casanovas (engineer), Antonio Santiago (architect), Felipe Limongi (architect) and TDT.
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IFERCAT.
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Gisa, Gestión de Infraestructuras S.A. and CEAL 9.
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Project.- 2008. Start of works.- 2010. Completed.- 2016
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€ 32,310,082.62
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14,766 m²
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Jordi Garcés, Daria de Seta and Anna Bonet Architects. The 2011 partnership of Jordi Garcés, Daria de Seta, and Anna Bonet inaugurated a new era of international competitions and commissions that integrates and continues Jordi Garcés's already established career: the winning projects of the international competition for the New Maritime Station of Syracuse in Sicily (Italy) and the competition for the Renovation and Extension of the Palace of Justice in Strasbourg (France), as well as the new building annexed to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona and the recently completed studio building for the painter Arranz-Bravo, reflect a new professional complementarity from both a generational and cultural perspective.

Jordi Garcés. was born in Barcelona on June 25, 1945, and studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture. He has been an architect since 1970 (Barcelona School of Architecture).

He earned his PhD in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1987 and has been a professor of design at the ETSAB (National Technical University of Catalonia) since 1975. He has been a visiting professor or external expert since the 1995-96 academic year at the Ecole Polytechique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland).

Of his body of work, the following stand out for their greater visibility: the Picasso Museum in Barcelona; the Navarre Art Museum in Pamplona; the Olympic Pavilion in the Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona; the Plaza Hotel in Barcelona; the Museum of Science and the Cosmos in Tenerife; and the headquarters of the Francisco Godia Foundation in Barcelona.

Daria de Seta has been an architect since 1998 (Faculty of Architecture in Naples). With a PhD in Architecture and Museography from the Polytechnic of Milan and the ETSA of Barcelona (2004), she has been a guest lecturer at various European universities and has taught on the Master's program "Spaces and Communication" at HEAD in Geneva, directed the Cours en Projet et Construction at L'HEPIA in Geneva, and is currently a professor of Projectes III and Global Project at Elisava.

After collaborating with Renzo Piano and MBM Architects (among others) and designing her own projects, she joined Jordi Garcés' studio in 2005.

She has always combined design practice with theoretical and critical activity, curating architecture and photography exhibitions and publishing articles in Italian and Spanish industry magazines. Her latest published book is Giuseppe Pagano. Vocabulary of Images, Lampreave & Millán, Madrid 2009.

 Anna Bonet Giné, architect since 2003 (Barcelona School of Architecture). After collaborating with various firms such as Dani Freixes i Varis Architects and MMBM, she joined Jordi Garcés' studio in 2007. In parallel, she is working on several of her own projects, such as the Porqueres Library, Casa Badrena, and some specific interventions at the Museum of the History of Catalonia (the latter in collaboration with Daria de Seta).

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Published on: November 28, 2017
Cite:
metalocus, PABLO SEBASTIÁN
"3 Metro station on line 9: Amadeu Torner, Parc Logístic and Mercabarna, by Garcés, de Seta and Bonet " METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/3-metro-station-line-9-amadeu-torner-parc-logistic-and-mercabarna-garces-de-seta-and-bonet> ISSN 1139-6415
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