Filmoteca de Cataluña, Film Theatre Building Spain, Spanish Architect Design
Film Library Barcelona, Catalonia
Filmoteca de Cataluña Barcelona design by Josep Lluís Mateo Architect, Spain
post updated 10 May 2024
Dates built: 2010-11
Design: Josep Lluís Mateo
FILMOTECA
Completion of the Headquarters of the New Film Theatre of Catalonia in the Raval district of Barcelona.
photo © Adrià Goula
21 Sep 2011
Filmoteca de Cataluña
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Filmoteca de Cataluña
Headquarters of the new Film Theatre of Catalonia
First prize, public competition 2004
Address:
Plaça Salvador Seguí S/N
08001 Barcelona
About the form… The ruins mark the structure of the buildings. The Roman forum formalizes the plane of foundations and drains. In the old town, my building sets out to express itself as pure structure—no cladding, no finishes.
The bare concrete beams-cum-walls that form the façades are very varied, proving themselves members of the family of the dilapidated neighbouring walls, where plaster crumbles to reveal their original central mass.
photos © Adrià Goula
Josep Lluís Mateo
Filmoteca de Cataluña Barcelona – Building Information
Site: Plaza Salvador Seguí, distrito del raval, Barcelona
Surface: 7.515 m2
Author: Josep Lluís Mateo
Client: ICIC (Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals)
Budget: 12.000.000 euros
Structural Engineering: BOMA, Agustí Obiol
Installations Engineering: Grupo JG
Budget Control: Tram
Fire Protection Francesc Labastida
Constructor: Emcofa
photos © Adrià Goula
Place and Project
The new film theatre building presents a façade on Plaça de Salvador Seguí, at an angle to Carrer de Sant Pau. Together with the existing constructions, it forms Carrer d’Espalter.
It is very close to the mythical Carrer de Robador, in an area which, despite the major clean-ups still going on and the change in population, is still a popular, built-up, oppressively Mediterranean/port neighbourhood.
Its relation with its setting operates on the following levels:
The project and Plaça de Salvador Seguí:
The plaza represents a clearing in the built-up district of El Raval which, thanks to this construction, attracts new users and hosts large-scale events. A porch on the ground floor can be opened or closed according to functional needs. The film theatre is a continuation of the building line of the street, blending in with its setting.
The project and its immediate surroundings: Carrer d’Espalter:
The volume of the cinemas is undergrounded, thereby reducing the scale and visual impact of the building. The street is widened a little, drawing the construction back from the building line. The new building reduces the ground floor section at the end walls, which also makes the street wider.
Material/Form
The Film Theatre was conceived as a form “under construction”, as mass and volume without detail. The principal material used is therefore concrete—hard and strong. To accentuate this “unfinished” appearance, the beams extend to the exterior with their tensioning cables. The building is basically a beam-cum-wall that also frees up space without imposing a domestic presence.
The brief
The brief brings together in a single building functions that were previously housed separately: the library, the archive and the two cinemas, along with administrative and other functions, such as preparing publicity and information. There are also galleries and a cafeteria-bar.
The ground floor houses the reception and foyer to the cinemas, the vertical communication shafts, the cafeteria-bar and the necessary complementary services (ticket desk, etc.)
On the first floor are the library and a permanent exhibition gallery, and the second and third floors house the offices of the ICIC (Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries). The second floor is an open-plan space that looks out over the plaza and the street, Carrer d’Espalter, with a terrace overlooking Carrer de Sant Josep Oriol. The third floor is partially lit by a courtyard that becomes a skylight in the roof of the second floor.
In the basement, beneath the building’s projection, are the two floors of archives and storage, and the part of the basement below the plaza houses the two cinemas.
Previously:
Primer Premio. Concurso restringido
images : Josep Lluis Mateo
Film Theatre of Catalonia, Barcelona – Building Information
2004-10
Emplazamiento: El Raval, Barcelona
Superficie: 7.000 sqm
Autor: Josep Lluís Mateo
Colaboradores externos:
Estructuras: OMA, Agustí Obiol
Instalaciones: Grupo JG
Presupuesto: Aumedes-Embuena – Xavier Aumedes
Protección contra incendios: Francesc Labastida
Colaboradores MAP:
Responsables de proyecto: Jordi Pagès, Anna Llimona
Dirección de obra: Vicky Daroca
Equipo proyecto: Xavier Monclús, Enriqueta Llabrés, Benjamín Scharf
Equipo Concurso: Marc Camallonga, Enriqueta Llabrés, Adriana Porta, Lucas Echeveste, Ismael Heras, Daniel Blüm
image : Josep Lluis Mateo
Filmoteca de Cataluña Barcelona images / information from Josep Lluís Mateo
Filmoteca de Catalunya : photos added 10 Sep 2012:
photo © Milos Stipcic
Location: Carrer d’Espalter, 08001 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
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