De la Factoría Sansón a La Fábrica. La casa estudio de Ricardo Bofill o como habitar una ruina

  1. Alvarez Arce, Raquel 1
  2. Martinez Rodriguez, Jose Manuel
  3. Galvan Desvaux, Noelia 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

Journal:
ACE: architecture, city and environment

ISSN: 1886-4805

Year of publication: 2022

Issue: 48

Pages: 10628

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5821/ACE.16.48.10628 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openUPCommons editor

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Abstract

The project of La Fábrica, Ricardo Bofill's residence and studio, arises from the architect's encounter with the remains of a cement factory under demolition and his desire to preserve it. The industrial facility was located on the outskirts of Barcelona and its production began at the beginning of the 20th century. The complex passed into the architect’s hands in 1970 when he was looking for a site on which he could build Taller de Arquitectura’s proposal for the city in the space that would become what we know today as Walden 7. This article aims to establish a hypothesis about the project process that allowed a factory to be transformed into a domestic space. We will address the different instruments used to carry out this radical change in function - cleaning, delimitation, and redefinition mechanisms - with which Bofill's study manages to inhabit this industrial ruin. In short, it is about putting in value this pioneering project in the reconversion of industrial architecture, from an unconventional vision, linked to the European influences of the time. But also, from their own universe of shapes, textures, and light, in which the architects developed this work as a turning point in the studio's trajectory.

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