THE ARCHITECTURE GALLERY [III] Anna Bach

Today we have introduced in METALOCUS the exhibition 'The architecture gallery' which has been opened today in Barcelona, as well as several of the participants, Adrià Goula previously and now Anna Bach.

The young finnish architect deserves special attention for us because of its good projects as well as it interesting way of communicating it through drawings and plans really personal and intentioned.

The serie of illustrations about Barcelona shows several public spaces of the city modified by the collocation of a new element which modify those spaces. In the first illustration, a street in the expansion district has been cut with cones, turned into a pedestrian way for recovering a public space free of traffic. In the second one, an inner area of a block has turned into a new garden adding a new layer of leisure program over the existing buildings. The third illustration, the Catalunya Square has been filled with rubbish of the demolition of the Glorias Square, turning the center of Barcelona into a contemporary ruin. Images, all of them, representative of a way of understanding a public space as a space for the pedestrians.

The serie of illustrations 'Architecture and Nature' presents pictures of five films with different topics in which the relationship with the surrounding built area and the landscape have a determining role. Those illustrations were done it for the cinema course 'Architecture and Nature' which took place in the Filmoteca de Cataluña during the year 2013, with films as El espejo, by Andrei Tarkovsky, El sabor de las cerezas, by Abbas Kiarostami, La notte, by Michelangelo Antonioni, El desprecio, by Jean-Luc Godard, and Otoño, invierno, primavera, verano... by Kim Ki-Duk. In this serie five illustration are presented, showing a built and a natural element in the same picture of the films, summing up the relationship and the tension between those elements.