Collage Building - Teresa Pàmies Cultural Centre

Teresa Pàmies Cultural Centre, located in the Eixample (enlargement) of Barcelona, shows a facade to the street that doesn't reflect the complex world with which the visitor encounters himself when he along the ground floor towards the interior. A covered pedestrian street allows him to discover a place with a completely different character. The building houses a kindergarten, a library, a playroom, a civic center and an auditorium which share one single lobby. The whole program looks out towards the semi-public square that complements the interior cultural spaces.

Description of project by Rahola Vidal arquitectes

The Collage Building is an architecture of proximity, connected with the urban landscape and the social necessities of Barcelona.

The project works as a vertical city organized by horizontal layers, each one related with the others through perforations and voids. The building groups different facilities: a nursery, a play centre, a library, a community centre and an auditorium.

These five programs need a close relationship with the outside but they have to share the same ground floor. This becomes a social place, permeable and active which connects the surrounding city with the building and the public garden in the interior of the block.

The result is a collage of different parts, a sequential promenade of urban episodes.

Text.- Rahola Vidal arquitectes.

CREDITS.-

Architects.- Víctor Rahola i Aguadé, Jorge Vidal Tomás.
Collaborators.- BOMA (structures), PGI grup (systems), Mario Barredo (measuring and budget), Peret (signage), Josep Mª Tremoleda (furniture design).
Developer.- ProEixample, S.L.
Builder.- COMSA.
Integrated direction.- GAM.
Budget.- 8,252,000€ + taxes.
Cost/sqm.- 1,182 €/sqm.
Built area.- 6,980 sqm.
Location.- c/ Comte d’Urgell 145-147, Barcelona, Spain.

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ARQUITECTES VÍCTOR RAHOLA

Víctor Rahola Aguadé (1945, Barcelona) graduated from Escuela técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona ETSAB in 1973. He worked for Jose Antonio Coderch before establishing his own practice.

He taugth at the Escuela Técnica Superio de Arquitectura de Barcelona from 1977-2010. He has been visiting Professor at a number of schools of architecture. He has served on many architectural competition juries. In addition to his academic commitment, he lectures extensively both in Spain and abroad and writes regularly on architecture.

Jorge Vidal Tomás. Jorge Vidal Studio

Jorge Vidal Tomás (1980, Barcelona) is an architect who graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona in 2005. In 2004, he studied at the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio in the atelier of Peter Zumthor and Valerio Olgiati. In 2003, he studied in Greece with Ellia Zenghelis thanks to a scholarship awarded to him by the Mies Van der Rohe Foundation. After completing a Master’s Degree in Projects, he is currently preparing his PhD at the ETSAB.

From 2021 to date, he has been directing the SUUN Unit at ETSALS. From 2008 to 2019, he was a professor in the Projects workshop at ETSAB. At the same time, he was director of the series of conferences known as ESARQ Forums at the International University of Catalonia from 2010 to 2016. He gives lectures at different architecture schools and institutions, as well as being a jury member for different awards. At the same time, he regularly writes articles on architecture.

From 2008 to 2015, Jorge Vidal and Víctor Rahola worked together as Rahola Vidal Arquitectes. In 2015, Jorge Vidal founded his current architecture studio.

The studio’s work has been recognised with various national awards, such as the FAD Award and the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.

Published on: September 1, 2014

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