Flores & Prats.
Pius XII Square in Barcelona, 2005.
Eva Prats was born in Barcelona in 1965. She studied architecture at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, graduating in 1992. From 1986 to 1991, being student of architecture, collaborates at the office of Enric Miralles and Carme Pinòs, continuing as an architect with Miralles until 1994. This year she obtains the First Prize at the International Housing Competition Europan III, leaving Miralles’ office to form her own practice. Ricardo Flores was born in Buenos Aires in 1965, where he studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Buenos Aires and graduated in 1992. During his studies in Buenos Aires he collaborated at Baudizzone Lestard Varas Archs and Aslan & Ezcurra Archs. In 1993 he moves to Barcelona to study the Master in Urban Design Perifery as a Project, directed by Manuel de Solà-Morales at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, graduating in 1994. From 1993 to 1998 collaborates with Enric Miralles in numerous projects and competitions. Establishes Flores & Prats with Eva Prats in 1998. Flores & Prats is an architecture office established in Barcelona, dedicated to the confrontation of theory and academic practice with design and building activity. The office has been involved in several kinds of projects, especially for the Public Administration through open competitions. These include residential and public buildings, as well as public urban spaces, exhibition design and site-specific installations for major cultural institutions and museums, including Tàpies Foundation, Miró Foundation and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. The work of the office has obtained several awards, it has been objective of monograph and collective exhibitions, and widely published in national and international books and magazines.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. AWARDS.
Awards and Distinctions. 2012. First Prize Biennal of Architecture of Vallès for the Building 111.
2011.
International Award Dedalo-Minosse, Vicenza, for the Innovation Campus Microsoft Milan. Finalist at the FAD Awards for the Building 111. Finalist of the European Awards of Architecture Ugo Rivolta 2011 for the Building 111. Finalists at the Spanish Architecture Biennal for the Building 111.
2009.
Grand Award for the Best Work in Architecture at the 240th edition of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, for the Mills Museum of the Balearic Islands and surrounding public spaces, in Palma de Mallorca.
2007. Form part of the Wallpaper Directory of Emerging Offices.
2006.
Finalist at the FAD Awards for the Yutes Warehouse (Extension and rehabilitation of a Textile Warehouse in Sant Just, Barcelona).
2005.
Nominated for the Contemporary Architecture-Mies van der Rohe Awards for the Mills Museum of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca. First Prize at the Triennal d’Arquitectura del Baix Llobregat, Penedès i Garraf 2003-05 for the Yutes Warehouse.
2004.
Finalist at the Iberoamerican Biennal of Lima (Perú), October 2004, for the Mills Museum of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca.
2003.
First Prize at the Awards of the Architecture of Mallorca 2002-2003 for the Mills Museum of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca.
2000.
Silver Medal for the Consejo Profesional de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de Buenos Aires. Project: Urban Plan of Renovation of the City Centre of Vilanova i la Geltrú, at the “3ª Biennal Internacional de Urbanismo” of Buenos Aires. April 2000.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. COMPETITIONS.
Winning Competitions. 2011.
First Prize in selected competition for the new Theatre and International Drama School Sala Beckett in Barcelona.
2007.
First Prize in the competition for the renovation and extension of the Modernist Industrial Settlement Cal Vidal, Puig Reig, Barcelona.
2007.
Honorific Mention at the Public Competition for the renovation of a Thermal Power Station in Alcúdia, Balearic Islands.
2006.
First Prize at Public Competition for the volumetric definition of the buildings surrounding the Plaça dels Països Catalans and design of the public spaces of the square,Terrassa, Barcelona.
2004. First Prize in the competition for the social housing Building 111 Terrassa, Barcelona.
2004. First Prize in the competition for the Nicaragua square in Barcelona.
2001. First Prize in the competition for a Public Square in Sant Adrià del Besòs, Barcelona.
1999. First Prize in the Ideas Competition for the Maritime Front in Calpe, Alicante.
1998.
First Prize at the Open Competition for the Rehabilitation Plan of the Historic Centre of Vilanova, Barcelona.
1994.
Second Prize at the International Competition “Zaragoza Ribera Norte” Organized by the Biennal de arquitectura de Zaragoza.
1994.
First Prize at The International Competition of Europan III for the design of a 45 Dwellings Project in Calella, Barcelona.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. EXHIBITIONS.
Exhibitions. The office work has been object of several monograph and collective exhibitions: Grafting Architecture, Catalan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2014. Collective exhibition where the Cultural Centre Casal Balaguer in Palma de Mallorca is exhibited. June to November 2014. Go Away Come Back. Collective exhibition of architecture, travel, research, experience. The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, Perth, Australia. October 2013. Meeting at the Building. Monographic exhibition about the Building 111, Exhibition Hall Meldahls Smedie, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhague. 6th September to 25th October 2013. Ingredients & Cakes. Exhibition on four projects of Flores & Prats, at Leth & Gori Storefront, Absalonsgade 21B, Copenhague. 5th September to 25th October 2013. Export Barcelona. Social Housing in Urban Context. Collective exhibition where the Building 111 is exhibited. Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. 2013. International Award Dedalo-Minosse. Collective exhibition where the Innovation Campus Microsoft Milan is exhibited as part of the award. Palazzo Barbaran, Vicenza. 2011. 111 Crossed sights. The social dimension of housing. Monographic exhibition about the Building 111, at the Espai Picasso of the COAC de Barcelona. April - May 2011. Architecture Catalane 2004-2009, Portrait d’Époque. Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine – Palais de Chaillot, Paris, October ‘09 to January ‘10. Collective exhibition where the Building 111 is exhibited. Arquinset: Habitatge, Ciutat, Societat. From 28th September to 14th October 2009 at the Col.legi d’Aparelladors de Barcelona, organised by Arquinfad. Collective exhibition within the Cycle Arquinset, where the Building 111 of Social Housing is exhibited. Arquitectures sense lloc 1968-2008. Collective exhibition of architecture non built, visionaries, ephemeral and installations, where Eva Prats’ Final Thesis Project (1992), and the Competition for the extension of the Football Club Barcelona (1997) are exhibited. Centre Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona. June to October 2009. The 240th Royal Academy of Arts in London Summer Exhibition. Collective exhibition where the project Mills Museum of the Balearic Islands is exposed. London, June to August 2009. Re-activate!! Collective exhibition that follows the As Found exhibition in Basel. The Yutes Warehouse in Barcelona is exhibited. Castellón, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, May to August ‘08. Patent Constructions. New Architecture Made in Catalonia. Collective exhibition at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum de Frankfurt am Main, 2007, and at the Arkitekturmuseet Stockholm, 2008. As Found. Urban Reanimations and the minimal intervention. Collective exhibition at the S AM, Swiss Architecture Museum de Basel, March-May 2007. Luce Liquida. Monographic exhibition of the work of our studio at the Castello Chiaramonte de Favara, Agrigento, Sicilia. Juny-Juliol 2006. eP + rF Treballs recents. Monographic exhibition. Drawings, models and photographs, work-in-process material. Picasso Room of the Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. December ‘03 to January ‘04. <40 (Sota Quaranta) Collective Exhibition on the work of architects under 40 years old, with professional practice at Catalunya. 20th of February to 15th of March, 2003, at the COAC of Barcelona. “Xposición BA in Wien” and “BA in Rotterdam” Collective exhibitions, as part of Argentinean architects working around the world. Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and Architekturzentrum Wien. 2002.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. COMPETITIONS.
Complete list of Works and Projects. Rehabilitation.
- Sala Beckett. New Theatre and International Drama Centre in Barcelona. Competition: Jan. 2011. Project: 2012-2013. Construction: Sept. 2014 - Cultural Centre Casal Balaguer in Palma de Mallorca. 2009-Under construction. - Mills Museum of the Balearic Islands. Palma de Mallorca. 1997-1998. Completed: May 2002. - House in a suitcase. Rehabilitation of a Housing Bldg. in the Grid of Barcelona and construction of an attic apartment. Bruc Street, Barcelona. 1995 Completed: 1996. - Nuevo Triunfo Hotel**. Cabanes Street, Barcelona. Project: 1999-2000. Completed: May 2002. - Yutes Warehouse. Rehabilitation and Extension of an Industrial Building in Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona. Project: 2000-2002. Completed: August 2005. - Casa Providència, Badalona, Barcelona. Project: 2002. Construction: 2003-2006. - Food Culture Museum. Barcelona, 1998. Project 2002-2007. - Centre for Creative Activities at former Fabra & Coats industrial Bldg. Sant Andreu, Barcelona. Competition: April 2009. - Competition for the extension of the Bornholm’s Museum in Ronne, Bornholm, Denmark. August 2003. - Collaboration with EMBT (Miralles-Tagliabue) Office with the rehabilitation of the Santa Caterina Market and its Future Archaeological Museum in Barcelona 2000-2001.
Urbanism.
- Urban Planning for the City Centre of Vilanova I la Geltrú, Barcelona. Open Competition March 1998 1st Prize. Planning Code completed and aproved June 1999. - First Prize and commission for developing the renovation and extension of the Old Industrial Settlement Cal Vidal, Puig Reig, Barcelona. Development of the Master Plan for its approval at the Regional Government. October 2007. - Volumetric definition of the buildings surrounding the Plaça dels Països Catalans and design of the square, in the city of Terrassa, Barcelona. First Prize for competition. January 2006- February 2007. - Urban Plan for the East Side of the Barcelona Old City Centre. As part of the project of general renovation of the historic quarter of the city. Collaboration with the office of Archs Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT Arqs. Ass.) Project: 1997. Definitive Approval: Dec.1999.
Housing.
- Social housing for 111 dwellings at Terrassa, Barcelona. Project: 2004-2006. Construction: 2007- 2010. - International competition EUROPAN 7 at Santa Coloma de Cervelló, Barcelona. 2004. - Social Housing for 48 Dwellings at Guissona, Lleida. Project EUROPAN competition: 1998/2002. Completed June 2004. - International Competition entry EUROPAN III. Housing Block for 45 dwellings. Calella de la Costa, Barcelona. 1993-1994. 1st Prize. - Farnós House. Diputació St., Barcelona.1998-1999. Completed in July 1999. - AV House. Graus St., Sarrià, Barcelona.1995-’97 Completed May 1997 - Garage for a Family House. Camós, Girona. Completed in November 1993.
Public Space.
- La Segarra Square in centre of city block in Guissona, Lérida. Project: 2003. Construction: 2004- 2005. - Fabra & Coats Gardens, Sant Andreu, Barcelona. Project: 1997-1998. Completed: May 1999. - Pius XII Square in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona. Building Project: 2003. Construction: 2004-2005. - Nicaragua Square in Montacada i Reixac, Barcelona. Building Project: 2005. Construction: 2006. - Surrounding Spaces of the Mills Museum, Es Jonquet neighborhood. Palma de Mallorca. 1997-1998. Completed: May 2002. - Design of Game to guide the visit to Diagonal Mar Park in Barcelona. Collaboration with EMBT Archs. - Open Ideas Competition entry for the Maritime Front in Calpe, Alicante. May 1999. 1st Prize. - Open Competition entry for “De la Llibertat “ Square. Reus, Tarragona. 1997. 1st Mention. - Open Ideas Competition entry for the “ebro Riverside” for the “Bienal de Arquitectura” in Zaragoza, 1994. 2nd Prize.
Landscape.
- Innovation Campus Microsoft. New access canopy, new façade, kindergarten and landscape areas for the new Headquarters of Microsoft, in Milan. Project: 2007-2008 Completed September 2011. - Centre for Astronomical Studies (Observatory), Seva, Barcelona. 1998 - 2002. Non built.
Installations for exhibitions and Fairs.
- Barcelona - Phoenix, The Desert as a Client. Organisation, coordination, production and curators of the exhibition that shows works of architects of the city of Pheonix at the Sala Picasso of the Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya a Barcelona. October 2008. - Luce Liquida. Monographic exhibition on the work of our office at the Castello Chiaramonte in Favara, Agrigento, Sicily. June 2006. - eP + rF. Treballs recents. Monographic exhibition on the work of our office as part of the cicle eP at the Espai Picasso of Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. December ‘03 - January ‘04. - Clorindo Testa, architect and painter, at the School of Architecture in Barcelona, April 2002. - Exhibition Federico Guzmán. Installation of a sunshade at the Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona, Dec. 2000-July 2001. - Santa Caterina Archaeological Museum. Barcelona. Collaboration with EMBT Archs. Project: 20002001. Non built. - Exhibition Record de Joan Prats. Fundació Miró, Barcelona. December 1995. - Rehabilitació de la Ciutat de Palma. Palau Solleric, Palma de Mallorca. October 1998. - Stand for the Textile company Yutes, to present their products at the international fairs of Valencia and Frankfurt. From1993 to 2000. - L’arquitectura dels anys 50 a Barcelona. Installation inside the exhibition Barcelona 1898-1999, at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), 1996. - Exhibition of the Summer Workshop with John Hejduk in 1999. ETSA del Vallès, June - July 2000. ETSA de Barcelona, October 2000. ETSA de Valencia, may 2001. CCC de Barcelona, during the “2nd architectural market” October 2001. - Collaboration with the Architectural Studio of Olga tarrasó and Julià Espinàs for the design of two exhibitions at the CCCB: Urban Visions, 1993, and Portrait of Barcelona,1994. - Stand on the Centre for Rhythmic Gymnastics in Alicante by Enric Miralles, Construction Fair in Alicante,1993.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. REHABILITATION AND REUSE.
Cultural Centre Casal Balaguer. Palma de Mallorca, 2009Exhibited at the Venice Biennale Catalan Pavilion 2014
Project: 1996, first project concerning only the roofs. 2001-2003, complete renovation of the building. Construction: 2009 - under construction of third and last phase. Compleition expected June 2015. Promoter: Municipality of Palma. Area: 2.500 m² Budget: 5.700.000 € Programme: Rehabilitation of a baroque Palace in Palma as a Cultural Centre, with contemporary library, exhibitions spaces for contemporary art, a House Museum to visit the former Balaguer family house, and a café-restaurant open to the city of Palma.
At the ground floor level the project re-opens the arches walled in the last century, recovering the original character of the yard as a continuous space, with the perspective of the 13 arches which forms it. This space becomes the access to the Palace, which is where the reception, cafeteria and exhibition gallery with double height are located.
The work to convert this ancient palace in the historical center of Palma de Mallorca into a cultural center for the city began 18 years ago, rehabilitating its covers. The building had grown at various stages over eight centuries, and each of them had been done with its own geometry, resulting in a discontinuous and disjointed sequence of spaces. This lack of coordination between the different moments of the life of the building is reflected in its large roof; when we started the work in 1996, it was a precarious and emergency construction with a geometry that did not allow the water to exit to the perimeter, causing leaks and deterioration in the rooms of the palace. Our work began on the top floor and rehabilitated the roof structure, and then move to rehabilitate the entire building. The historic center of Palma is extremely compact and dense, and the roof now became the main level of this construction, a wavy surface containing skylights which carry natural light to the various lower levels, and to the ground floor. The image shows the relationship between the old and new roofs, in an interest to blur hierarchies, the new roof connecting very different and complex geometries, making the whole work now at a time.
To organize the new public use in the palace, it was necessary to propose a new circulation that covers the whole building avoiding the fragmentation that characterized it. The new circulations have been linked to the natural light, offering a walk through the building in the most intuitive way. From the roof level the light is channeled by skylights that divide it up to the various floors. They are true water channels, liquid light running parallel to different heights. The construction of the new vertical concrete stairs is simultaneously building the skylight: we climb up the concrete staircase, which moves and folds to let the light pass by and see it fall. By linking so closely stairs with light, the union is so unique that you can not dissect what came first, who started this adjustment, this double contour: if the goal was to build a stairs or to model a container of daylight. If this light falls vertical like water, the light above the dome instead flows in horizontal sense, like wind, like a cloud. It stays floating over the convexe side of the dome, illuminating all the spaces around its chamber, and then it falls, softly, through the eye of the dome filling in the space of the main staircase.
The project has a double purpose: to recover a heritage building in state of declive, and work to link it to the actual city. The new program as cultural center combines temporary exhibitions, conference room, offices and a museum, and will help to introduce it in a diverse and urban cultural dynamics again. The building is updated based on the previous one, with a transformation that welcomes the new functions. Within this transformation, our work prevents the palace to lose that mystery and spatial complexity of light and depth of chambers containing the time in them, that have accompanied its growth until today. The effort is to make the ancient palace to express the maximum spatial, materials, historical qualities, because the new program gives us a lot of freedom to draw a new building within the previous, investigating on the qualities of the old building. Taking it as a construction, without the typical constraints of the use for which it was intended, allows us to stop seeing it as a building with domestic dimensions, and move on to assess their spatial and physical qualities as the start of the new occupation.
The rehabilitation brings back into use many rooms of the Palace that where closed during years. This has led to a reconsideration of the movement through the building to make the activities compatible with the old structure of spaces. The new organization of spaces allows to circulate through all the building, evidencing the crossing through different environments and changes in geometry that correspond to different historical moments.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. REHABILITATION AND REUSE.
Sala Beckett. New Theatre and International Drama Centre in Barcelona. First Prize and Commission in public competition in 2011.
Project: 2011-2012. Construction: September 2014 Promoter: Fundació Sala Beckett and Cultural Institute of Barcelona. Area: 2.500 m² Budget: 4.700.000 € Programme: The project is the rehabilitation and extension of the building of a former worker’s Cooperative building from 1924, into the new theatre and international drama workshop Sala Beckett. The program requires two exhibition spaces, three rehearsal rooms, bar-restaurant, classroom for seminars and workshops, and spaces for creative residences.
Sala Beckett is a group of actors and dramaturges with a solid career of 20 years in promoting local dramaturgy in our city, fundamental to understand the theatre map of Catalunya. We have worked with an extensive functional plan, proposed by the Beckett team, which previews to double the area of their actual working spaces. The project proposes a proximity and interaction with the neighbor, and at the same time should be coherent with the theatrical methods of this team.
Their attitude in the everyday work has a strong coincidence with our approach to architecture: the value for the process and the necessity of testing the play with the public as the only way of moving ahead. This reminds us our interest in investigation with the responsibility of building things.
The rehabilitation and reoccupation of the original building was an explicit aim of the client, which wants in this way to introduce a new program into this existing building that is present in the memories of this neighbourhood. The new theatre keeps many of the original spatial characteristics of the former Cooperative, and will grow over it to be able to house all the program.
The result is a building with signs of previous occupations, where all and new work at the same time: inside the huge public vestibule; outside, a great roof that transforms the old building into a big house: The House of the Dramaturges.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. REHABILITATION AND REUSE.
Mills Museum and surrounding public spaces. Palma de Mallorca, 2002. First Prize in Public Competition. First Prize at the Mallorca Architectural Awards 2002-2003. Finalist at the IV Bienal Iberoamericana of Lima (Perú), October 2004. Finalist at the Mies Van der Rohe Awards 2005. Grand Award for the Best Work in Architecture at the 2008 Summer Show of the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Project: 1997-1998 Construction: March 1999 – May 2002. Promoter: Palma de Mallorca City Council. Area: 700m² (225m² interior + 475m² exterior) Budget: 360.607 € Program: Rehabilitation of a XVII century flourmill as the Mills Museum of the Balearic Islands, with the conditioning of the surrounding public spaces as entry piazza, and rehabilitate a little adjacent building as bar, toilets and tickets.
The Jonquet is an old fishermen’s neighbourhood in the city of Palma. The old flour windmill had to be turned into an exhibition centre to cover the history of the mills of Mallorca, and at the same time, as a meeting place for those interested in research on this theme. The public space in front of the building’s main entrance was also an opportunity to organize the access square, at the same time that an old water depot was transformed into a bar and tickets office. This space ends the promenade along the Jonquet’s cornice, at Palma Bay. The museum itself looks for the maximum development of the plan. Working with the diverse existing holes, former windows, doors and chimneys, the project explores how to shape the different light entrances and shelves for displaying objects.
The accessible roof terrace of the building offers a second public square in connection with the entry piazza. The scale and dimensions of these two places are in proportion to those of the neighbourhood.
This open model shows that the project focuses on the edges, in walls and roofs, modifying the holes in its passage from outside to inside. The existing holes are deformed, extended in volumes that contain exhibition and light at the same time. It is a change in scale and size of the former window. The work on the inside of the walls also expands outwards, so each hole produces a double effect, to either side of the wall: an equivalent space, reflecting the interior, appears on the exterior, on the sun. Walls and roof work on both sides, creating a resonance of the presence of the museum in their immediate environment, in the small streets of the neighborhood.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. PUBLIC PROJECTS. INNOVATION CAMPUS MICROSOFT.
Innovation Campus Microsoft Milan First Prize at the International Award Dedalo-Minosse 2011 in Vicenza.
Project: August 2007- August 2008. Construction: December 2008- September 2011 Location: Milan, Italy. Promoter: Microsoft Italia and Vitali Spa. Area: 150.000m2 of plot. Budget: 150.000.000 â&#x201A;Ź Program: New Campus for Microsoft Italia: Offices and Service Buildings 45.260m2; Auditorium for 400 persons, 2.560m2; Kindergarden for 60 children, 3.000m2; Underground Parking for 1000 cars, 26.500m2; Landscape 55.000m2. In 2007 Microsoft Italia chose to establish its headquarters in a rural landscape characterized by the seasonally shif-ting pattern of agricultural production. The proposal focuses on the condition of agricultural fringe, an opportunity to create a transition; to create a meeting point between two technologies, working the fields and working with computers. These two realms of technology develop in parallel, with neither prevailing over the other. The project is located in the flat terrain of the Padana plains out of Milan, characterized by their broad horizons, patterned fields, tree rows, canals and spring-fed irrigation channels. The new Microsoft Italia campus is enclosed in a chamber created by extended tree rows that flow in from the landscape.
General plan
Pergoles at arrival, which connect with the fields in front.
Access to the offices and Auditorium.
Office Buildings and Auditorium, Corporation Image, Curtain Wall Facades... The design proposal implies a stitching together of two situations, the purity of the architectural volumes with the broad landscape. The proposal of facades and open air entrance responds to both the clients need for a symbolic and representative entrance to the building and also to the broader agricultural landscape. The lines in the project are connected to the lines of the cultivated fields, their rhythm is natural and develops in the same way as the natural landscape. The expanse of the brise-soleils, which detach from the vertical plane of the facades to the horizontal ones of the landscape, invite you out from the walkway onto the campus.
Brisse-soleil at the office facade.
Model of pergola at access.
People entering and leaving the building are sheltered by these series of pergolas: “shade pergolas” composed of metal lines and parallel tubes at different heights and then one single “rain pergola” made of glass and metal, running at a lower height. The furrows of the landscape approach the built form and then rise up in all their power, suspended over the walk way. They then stretch out and envelop the volumes of the building by climbing up the glass facades.
Landscape and Gardens. Aeration and illumination cones from the underground parking punctuate this intermediate landscape. Similarly to the furrows of the fields, pathways carve through this intermediate space to create places for work and play.
Aeration cones form an intermediate landscape, a garden for work.
The swath between the offices and the fields is now a hive of activity, which permeates out into the landscape, the two landscapes share and cohabitate the swath.
Conceptual collage of the area in between the offices and the open agricultural landscape, where the work with the computer and the one on the tractor are brought together.
The Kindergarten. The new green volumes of the day-care centre, for 60 children, project themselves against the stand of trees announcing the Gambarone spring, acting as another connection to the irregular landscape. The two buildings enclose an open air courtyard for the children, similar to a fragment of a field defined by endless tree rows.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECTS. BUILDING 111.
Building 111. Social Housing in Barcelona. Public Competition by Curriculum.
Project: 2004 - 2006. Construction: 2007- 2010. Promoter: Public Administration for Social Housing. Built Area: 12.687,62 m2 Budget: 9.088.560,48 € (approx. 716,33€/m2) Program: 111 Social Houses of about 70m² each, 4 commercial locals and 111 parking spaces.
Site Plan + Section View of central courtyard and landscape.
Social dimension. The social dimension of housing is a necessity in today’s Social Housing: as much the supply of spaces for meetings and relationships between neighbors, as the organization of an open interior for a house, not hierarchical. This also helps to erase the gender difference regarding daily household chores. The future of social housing must aspire not to isolate its inhabitants, but to encourage them in establishing relationships. This building of 111 units of Social Housing is placed in the eastern side of Terrassa, looking onto an open landscape that connects it from the nearby city centre. The proposal turns the inside space of the block into a semi-public square, essential for the life of the building: all the inhabitants enter from the street through this central square, a place of crossing paths, a meeting place. From here you enter into the staircase vestibule and then into the flats, through a progressive sequence of scales. Relationship with surrounding. The building rises out of a landscape consisting of pine trees and dried streams. The texture of this landscape suggests a facade formed by shadows and texture. The concrete façade attends to this character of the place, celebrating texture and an imperfection. Flowing over the cavities of this concrete surface, light creates continuity with the surrounding landscape. Also, the facade prepares to be seen from different distance approaches. From afar the building could be read as one unit, not showing clearly its size and scale… preventing the ability to understand its real dimensions. From close up the facade creates complicity, a connection with the passer-by who touches, leans on it. Access doorway of the building.
Arrival to the bloc from the centre of the city.
This community square makes the whole block work as an intermediate element between city and landscape. The transition from the city to the house, the linking of these two opposites, is carried out using a rich sequence that brings the user from one situation to the other gradually. The aim of this progressive passage is to dissolve the limits between public and private spaces.
Axonometrical drawing of the central courtyard, with the trees.
Relationship between terraces and courtyard. The trees start to appear at the level of the courtyard.
Ground Floor
Housing with workshops: a new typology that incorporates activities along the day into a housing block.
Housing with workshops: The work combined with living generates a new typology inside the block, enriching the daily activities. These activities are located towards the landscape, in order to invite working in close relationship with nature.
The houses. As the houses are of reduced dimensions, the project focuses in providing extensions of them into terraces, balconies, and halls at the ground floor, an entrance square, and a series of intermediate spaces that allow the flat not to be restricted by its floor plan but to extend out beyond it. The distribution of the houses closes just two rooms: one bedroom and the bathroom. The rest of the spaces are in a continuous flow, passing from one to another, establishing a series of situations that connect back to a view of the entrance courtyard and to the nearby pines forest. Built area of the Block: 12.687,62m2 Private spaces: 10.270,87m2 Common spaces: 2.416,75m2 Areas of the typical floor plan.
Typical Plan
E2
E1
D2
C5
D1 C6
C4
Typical Plan of the part of building that faces the centre of the town.
CENTRAL FURNITURE FOR HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES COOKING - WASHING - IRONING HOT WATER THROUGH SOLAR PANELS.
Cooking
Diagonal view inside the dwelling.
Washing
Ironing
The living room with views towards the courtyard.
Central furniture for supplies, organizes the housing activities around it.
AXONOMETRIC VIEW OF ONE DWELLING WITH TERRACE.
The daily domestic activities -cooking, laundering, ironing etc-, are left in view to the occupants, encouraging them to participate. This is an attempt to avoid these activities taking place within a closed room, without anyone taking note of their periodicity. These same working areas turn into social areas when receiving guests. Even though the apartments are small -around 60 square meters of floor area-, you own a house where it is possible to invite friends, relatives...
Detailed drawing of the concrete facade
Concrete facade and foldable shutters.
The concrete faรงade. These load-bearing facades also provide the building with a good thermal mass. These were cast on site with polystyrene formworks, used here for the first time. These formworks were fabricated in a factory, industrialized to reduce the construction time on site, equilibrating the more careful and slow timing of the in situ concrete construction.
Sustainability. All the dwellings have crossed ventilation, good natural light and shutters that can be folded and project like a tent to make a good control of the changes of temperature, using systems of passive energy. In this way, it is not necessary to use air conditioned inside these houses. All the building is provided with garden roofs, with the same kinds of plants that grow naturally in the surrounding landscape. Above these roofs were installed solar panels, to heat water for the houses. Another important ecological decision was to install a pneumatic system of selective recollection of garbage, at the ground floor of the same bloc.
Underground garage with natural light.
Garage. Special attention was paid to the natural lighting of the underground garage. This aim was realised by adding holes in the central square, which allows views down to the parking ramp and to a large pot with three trees. These three Acacias are planted in the lowest level of the building, and from there they reach the level of the square, connecting the whole section. Long Section
Access to the garage, with light and views to landscape.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. REHABILITATION AND REUSE.
House in a Suitcase. Barcelona, 1994. Project: 1995. Construction: 1996. Area: 40 m² Budget: 60.101 € Programme: Rehabilitation and reuse of a former laundry space on the top of a housing building of Barcelona, adapting it as a attic temporary appartment for a family who lives in Palma de Mallorca.
Rehabilitation of the street façade building at the Barcelona Grid, and conversion of the old communitarian laundry into a penthouse. The project investigates about minimum space in everyday activities; the two pieces of furniture that now occupy this space, open according to each moment of the day. These two big trunks contain everything necessary for a short visit to Barcelona: three beds, cupboards and a kitchen. When the trunks are opened, hidden uses appear and fragment the big unique space into smaller spaces of human scale. In each stay the signs of temporal occupation will be different, depending on the hand luggage
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. REHABILITATION AND REUSE.
Nuevo Triunfo Hotel. Barcelona, 2002. Project: 1999-2001 Construction: Completed June 2001. Promoter: Private Area: 1.200 m² Budget: 480.809,68 € Programme: Rehabilitation of an industrial building into a two-stars hotel. Total of 40 rooms, doubles and singles.
The client named the Hotel Nuevo Triunfo after a Triumphal Arch at Ciudadela Park in Barcelona, which is made using very complex red brick bonds. The client’s desire of a new brick’s facade for the hotel blends with the area’s highly recreational personality, resulting in a proposal that experiments with the colors of ceramic brick and the possibilities offered by bricklaying. The new hotel plays on the idea of theatre, with its intense activity in front and behind the curtains, halfway hidden by backdrops... Inside the lobby, where various activities will take place: checking-in, going to the bar, taking the elevator... the areas are defined by walls that hang from the roof, framing the tourist in these situations, or allowing him to vanish from the scene with striking speed.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. REHABILITATION AND REUSE.
Yutes Textile Warehouse. Barcelona, 2005. First Prize at the Trienale of Architecture of Baix Llobregat (Barcelona) 2005. Finalist at the FAD Awards 2006. Project: 2000-2002. Construction: Completed August 2005. Promoter: Private. Area: 2.000 m² Budget: 360.607 â&#x201A;Ź Programme: Rehabilitation and reuse of a former industrial building as the offices and warehouse for a textile company.
The Yutes project is an extension of an existing textile warehouse, in Sant Just, an industrial zone close to Barcelona. The existing building included an office, packaging and storage area. The client required an enlarged storage capacity, but wished to do so with the greatest possible respect for the existing building: this meant reusing the maximum number of elements like doors, fences, windows... The final warehouse triples its initial storage capacity, while the offices and packaging area have remained the same but have substantially varied in distribution. The construction combines different techniques, chosen for their ease of assembly: for the main structure prefabricated concrete pillars, beams and floor slabs were used, while for the enclosure of the new level we chose a much lighter material, colored corrugated steel panels.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. REHABILITATION AND REUSE.
Providència House. Barcelona, 2008. Project: 2002. Construction: 2003-2006. Promoter: Private. Area: 180m² Budget: 200.000 € Programme: Private house enlarging a former worker-class row house.
Rehabilitation and extension of an existing worker-class row house with backyard, adding a new level on top and terrace. With this enlargement, the central part of the house would become far removed from the natural light entering from the facades. From this observation, the work in the house was concentrated into its core: a great light well has been excavated, three stories high. A change of scale is experienced once inside this space: long diagonal views appear, up to 10 meters long, a surprise in the house. A large volume of air has been introduced inside a plot which seemed not to be able to contain it when seen from outside. Every room in the house participates in the light and crossed views of this space.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. REHABILITATION AND REUSE.
Food Culture Museum. Barcelona, 1998. Collaboration with the Catalan artist Antoni Miralda.
Project: 2002-2007 (Non-built). Situation: Rius i Taulet Street, MontjuĂŻc, Barcelona. Area: 1733m2. Budget: 573.982,47 â&#x201A;Ź Program: Adapt an old pavilion of the 1929 World Fair Barcelona, as an interdisciplinary centre for the research about the food culture. The Food Culture Museum is an International Centre to promote the convergence of Art, Science, Cooking and Gastronomy, through research and Education. It is a versatile space, an innovative and necessary approach to the subject of food in response to the controversies on food and nutrition generated by the new dynamics of the 21st century. The objective of the FCM is to promote research and debate around nutrition, to celebrate the diversity of experiences linked to the ritual of eating, and to disseminate works of art inspired in food and gastronomy. The programme and promenade through the exhibition is directed by Miralda, with the aim of creating spaces for exchange, divulgation and research in the theme of food and nutrition in the world. Before starting the project, and in order to start using and occupying the building as we found it, there was a first action by Miralda: a silent auction of plates, designed and decorated by different artists and personalities of the civic and cultural world of Barcelona. This auction allowed us to think in how much we could use the building as it already was, a ruin that kept the memories of past uses of this place.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. REHABILITATION AND REUSE.
Centre for Creative Activities. Fabra & Coats. Barcelona. Second Prize in Selected Competition.
Project: April 2009. Situation: Fabra & Coatsindustrial complex, Barcelona. Promoter: Barcelona City Council. Built Area: 12.320m2 Program: Creation and Formation Centre for the Arts, Auditorium, Bar, Museum.
The Project organises the new programme of teaching and creation, introducing two patios of light inside the large interiors of the original factory buildings. These two patios allow now this to be a place where to spend long hours rehearsing and learning. The movement through the existing buildings grows from the decision of locating the access in the joint between the three periods that gave shape to the whole settlement, creating there a new vertical connection element which links all the different uses of the new centre. The movement in plan is in diagonal. This allowed us to escape from the geometry associated to modules, which directed the original industrial construction. The result is a series of classrooms and workshops that group around the light, big voids that excavate the old building, g bringing g g the exterior inside the old naves.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. URBAN REHABILITATION.
Urban Plan for the Renovation of a Historic Centre.
Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, 1998.
First Prize in National Competition. Silver Medal at 3ª International Urbanism Bienal Buenos Aires, 2000.
Project: 1998. Development of Urban Plan: 1999. Promoter: City Council of Vilanova i la Geltrú. Area: 4.680 m² Budget: 520.000 € Programme: Urban Plan for the rehabilitation and recuperation of the Historic Centre of Vilanova, a village 50kms South from Barcelona which at the moment of the competition was in extreme decay and ruin.
At the moment of the competition call, this old town presented an important state of degradation and social problems of marginality. The city was growing towards the sea and other peripheral areas, leaving the old town abandoned to its degradation. This affected all levels of constructions, making evident its ageing. The Master Plan was then a document with the objective to revert this process, proposing a series of operations in detail that could help to accomplish these objectives, with the intention that the area could be back an active part of the town.
The beginning of the work is in a plan from year 1500, identifying the two initial historic nucleus of the city: La Geltrú i la Vilanova. The work focuses in the intermediate area between them, in the aim to recuperate it as an element which could allow a historical comprehension of the evolution of the city. Objectives of the Master Plan: 1. Ensure to maintain the residential character of the area. 2. Invert the process of economical disactivation. 3. Promote the rehanilitation by substitution of the public as well as private buildings. 4. Rehabilitate the public space. 5. Good connection with the peripheral areas. 6. To manage the implementation of this Plan and its contents.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. URBAN REHABILITATION.
Cal Vidal. Puig-Reig, Barcelona, 2008. First Prize in Restricted Competition
Competition: May 2007. State: On hold. Promoter: Hines Interest Espaùa SL (Private developer) Area: 175.000m² (17,5Ha). Programme: Rehabilitation of a former industrial settlement to create a new village 80kms North from Barcelona. The programme includes the renovation and reuse of the former workers housing buildings, extending them to create new apartments with more area and terraces and balconies. In addition some new facilities must be created for the new population that will come to live in this place, such as Civic Centre, School, Commercial buildings and Sports Centre, and Public Spaces which link all the neighbour and Parking underneath of the housing.
Drawing of the Master Plan of the intervention, combining the existing building and the additions..
Aerial view of the industrial settlement, before the intervention.
A proposal for a new occupation at this former industrial settlement involved renovating the old houses and emphasizing the quality of the existing public spaces. The design works transforming and modifying the existing constructions, with the addition of new volumes that try to complete the missing qualities to the fomer housing blocks, giving tension and different qualities to the resulting public spaces. The work with the former housing blocks included the reuse of the old structures in order to be the base to the new appartment buildings. Therefore, the character of the old workers housing added to the new extensions, making the final result a more complex and interesting place. Example of a double-block intervention: the former housing blocks were too small and close from each other, so the proposal is to connect them sharing the gardens, and making bigger dwellings by joining two former ones.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. SPCIAL HOUSING.
48 Social Housing and Interior Square First Prize in EUROPAN Competititon
Project: 1998-2002 Construction: 2002-2004 Situation: Guissona, La Segarra, Lleida. Promoter: Institut Català del Sòl (Public Administration) Area: 7.065m² of Housing + 3.000m² of Square. Budget: 2.555.134 € Programme: 48 Social Dwellings of about 70m2 each, and Public Space with Playground. The construction of these three buildings were conceived to close the perimeter of a city block and to host a public space in its centre. Therefore, the design of the houses is not just focused in the resolution of its interior spaces, but all the reflection towards the exterior, and how these blocks define the outer spaces of the square. The dwellings are social housing, meaning very tight living areas, trying to give to these living spaces good orientation, ventilation and views.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. PUBLIC SPACES.
La Segarra Square. LĂŠrida, 2004. Project: 2003. Construction: 2004- 2005. Promoter: Barcelona City Council. Built Area: 3000 m2. Budget: 64.300 â&#x201A;Ź Program: Public square with playgrounds and basketball court, and space for representations of public events.
Little reliefs define a diagonal crossing of the place.
This interior square is dedicated to playgrounds for children. Being in a small village, they can come to play alone without any elder person looking after them. Design and vegetation is related to the dry landscape of the area. The plantation of trees aims to create shadows in the near future, and the construction has been concentrated on long walls that divide the square, in the same way that is divided the cultivated land that one can find in the surrounding landscape. These short walls organise different playing areas and can be used as benches.
Long and low walls define seating and playing areas.
Hula-hoops for trees and kids.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. PUBLIC SPACES.
Fabra & Coats Gardens. Sant Andreu, Barcelona, 1999. Special Mention at the V Prize for Brick Architecture 1997/1999.
Project: 1997-1998. Construction: September 1998-May 1999. Promoter: Barcelona City Council, Sant Andreu District. Area: 4.680 m² Budget: 520.000 â&#x201A;Ź Programme: Public spaces reusing a former industrial settlement.
This site, a fragment of major industrial complex, already had some qualities to become a garden: it was surrounded by a wall, lower than the street level, quiet, and there were two huge industries nearby which gave to the place the character of a private garden. With the observation of these existing qualities, the project was planned as a quiet garden, enclosed by the old brick walls which served to give the character of a private garden, which means that the place radiates a certain calmness, even though it is right in the centre of the city... We then incorporated elements from the program of a baroque garden: Labyrinth, Pergola, Cottage and an Outlook.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. PUBLIC SPACE.
Pius XII Square. Barcelona, 2005. First Prize in Public Competition.
Project: 2003. Construction: 2004- 2005. Promoter: Barcelona City Council. Built Area: 7.200 m2. Budget: 313.728 â&#x201A;Ź Program: Public Space with playgrounds and a Candy Shop.
The participation of neighbors in an architectural project is something not common in Barcelona, and was even less common at the time of this project, 2004. When we started drawing Pius XII square, we commenced having regular meetings with a commission formed by volunteer neighbors, together with the architect of the municipality and one politician. These meetings helped highly to shape the project, and soon there was a first list of requirements from the neighbors side. The project is located in a pheripherical area of Barcelona, with high problematics of social character, such as drug dealing and robberies. Therefore our aim was from the beginning to give this public space a quality and strenght which could give the local neighbours the energy and joy to change the stigma of the place.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. PUBLIC SPACE.
Nicaragua Square. Barcelona, 2006. First Prize in Public Competition.
Project: 2005. Construction: 2006. Promoter: Barcelona City Council, Montcada & Reixac District. Area: 2.931 m2. Budget: 573.982,47 â&#x201A;Ź Programme: Public space with playgrounds.
The Nicaragua square is at the end of a pedestrian street, a Rambla. In continuity with this walk there is the square, and at the other end there is a sport field area with a public park. The aim of this project is to connect these two boundaries: the Nicaragua square becomes the space in between the Rambla and the sports area, and it is defined in relation to these two extremes. Because the square is quite small, the movement along it takes a zigzag formation, avoiding any quick crossing of the space, and slowing down the inertia of the promenade along the Rambla. The presence of a primary school in one of the corners of the square makes it work as an enlargement of the school playground, when classes are over.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. EXHIBITION DESIGN.
Santa Caterina Archaeological Museum. Barcelona.
Collaboration with EMBT office (Miralles -Tagliabue) with the project for the rehabilitation of Santa Caterina Market.
Project: 2000-2001. Situation: Historic Centre of Barcelona. Promoter: Municipality of Barcelona Area: 2000 m2. Program: To adequate the visit to the ruins of the old church of Santa Caterina, which appeared at the moment of developing the project for the new Santa Caterina Market. Besides, designing the long back wall of the Market as an open air archeological exhibit.
The promenade through the Museum connects the point of descent, linked to the Market building and the housing proposed by the project, using as exhibition rooms the same chambers of the former church of Santa Caterina, such as naves and apse. A meeting point and possible video projections is formed between the second and the third settlement of the church.
Exhibition Federico Guzmán. Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona. For an exhibition of the artist from Seville Federico Guzmán.
Project Design and Installation: December 2000 - June 2001 Situation: Fundació Tàpies, Barcelona. Promoter: Fundació Antoni Tàpies. Area: 405m2 Budget: 5.110 €. Program: Design and Installation of a tent for shadow at the back courtyard of the FAT for the celebration of exhibitions at summer months, as an alternative open air room.
Federico Guzmán’s exhibition was dealing with themes of plants and gardens, so we decided that the cover would not be hermetic or impermeable but, on the contrary, it would serve as a shadow tent, leaving the rain, the air and the views to the facades to pass through. We decided to use a material usually utilized for cultivations and greenhouses, a plastic textile of black colour, which offers the possibility of different weaves for various intensity of shadows.
Exhibition “Record de Joan Prats”. Miró Foundation. Collaboration with Arch. Jaume Freixa and Art Historian Ma. Lluïsa Borràs. Project and Installation: December 1995 Situation: Fundació Joan Miró, Parc de Montjuïc, Barcelona. Promoter: Fundació Miró. Area: 200m2 Program: Design and mounting of the installation.
The exhibition was an homage to Joan Prats, one of the promoters, together with Joan Miró, of the idea of the C.E.A.C. (Centre d’Estudis d’Art Contemporani), later known as Fundació Miró. The exhibit coincided with the 25th anniversary of his death, and put together the private collection of Joan Prats (the main part of it donated to the Fundació Miró), and documents that helped to form the portrait of who was the main instigator of the vanguard art in Barcelona.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES.
Through the Canvas Workshop at the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen, January.
Academic Activity Together, Eva and Ricardo directed Final Thesis Studio at the School of Architecture ESARQ-UIC in Barcelona (2009 to 2012), and were teachers at the Master of Housing at ETSAB-UPC (2005 to 2012). Since 2003 they both are professors of Design Studio at the School of Architecture of Barcelona. Besides this permanent teaching position at the public School in Barcelona, they are often appointed to run architectural workshops in several national and international universities. These are always an opportunity to know more about distant schools of architecture and compare interests and methods of education in relation to Barcelona. The choice of the themes for these workshops is always something to consider particularly, as they are the starting point for a conversation with the students. As practicing architects, these points of communication are always related to the work done at the office, and therefore the exercises become an extension of it for a few days, sharing issues and preoccupations that are partially uncovered and identified. Some of the main and more recent academic activities studio are: - Urban Islands International Workshop, for students of University of New South Wales in Sydney, Sydney University, RMIT Melbourne and Newcastle University, Australia. July 2013. - The Social Dimension of Collective Buildings, double workshop at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhague and School of Architecture in Barcelona. January 2013. - Invited Professors at the Summer International Workshops WS’2009 and WS’2010 at I.U.A.V -Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia. - A través de la tela, workshop at the Facultad de Arquitectura of Buenos Aires. August 2005. - Through the Canvas, workshop at Curtin University of Technology in Perth and at the University of New South Wales de Sydney, Australia. September and October 2004. - Centri Urbani i Campagna Romana, Seminar of Architectural Projects at the Facoltà di Architettura di Roma “La Sapienza”. September 2003. - A Private Room in a Public Building, Summer Studio at the University of Sydney Faculty of Architecture, March 2003. - Direction of the International Workshop INVITATIONS at the School of Architecture of Barcelona with Enric Miralles in 1998, John Hejduk in 1999, Juan Baldeweg in 2000, Cedric Price in 2001 and Clorindo Testa in 2002. - Invited Professor for the Spring Semester at the Arizona State University, College of Architecture in Phoenix, January-May 2000.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES.
Through the Canvas Workshop.
Curtin University in Perth, UNSW in Sydney, AHO in Oslo, Newcastle University in Newcastle, IUAV in Venice, Mackintosh School in Glasgow, Royal Acadaemy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Facultad de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires... Dates: 2004 to 2012.
Program. The students work with XVII Century Dutch interiors by Pieter de Hooch. These rooms, beautifully painted, suggest a series of connected spaces that relates interiors to exteriors, evidencing modulations of spatial depths and distances from place to place. The image of the painting is taken as a fragment of a building that has to be registered, hand drawing, with all its qualities of colours, materials and dimensions. After this first intense observation, the exercise is to enlarge this given fragment into a family house, using the existing as an important part of the final result. The exercise puts the problem of how to deal and dialogue with an existing building, and how to enlarge and continue growing from it in continuity, until arrive to a larger unitarian new building. We found this exercise extremely useful to put to students and being able to discuss with them subjects like the relationship with historic buildings, using the history to reuse it and making it active part of the final new program.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES.
Final Thesis Design Studio. Dates: Academic year, September to July, 2008 to 2012. Place: School of Architecture of ESARQ-UIC, Barcelona. Program: The program here is as an excuse to activate a part of town which needs urban reconsideration. Thus, it can vary in size and shape, used to solve the urban problematic which each of the students find in that area. The difficulty is therefore that the students are asked to complete the program themselves: they search for the site of the project inside an extense given area. In the decision of the limits of the project and the way of occupying the area, are already implicit the qualities of the future project to develop. The students are required to demonstrate an attitude in relation to urban concerns and an own field of interests to develop the project. The exercise is placed in Barcelona, using our own city as the context to research and investigate about qualities, evolution, natural light, built environment... There is an insistence to the students to learn the historic evolution of the place where they work, starting to look into the past as a possible future for the project. Juan Sanz. The past of the wetlands is an actual past, where still today subtle rises and depressions generate flooded areas. A new inundation discovers the capacity of the roofs to house the school for dance of Carmen Amaya, a dance that takes place several meters above the level of the ground.
Gloria Saus. Categorize different type of voids. Discovering of the capacity of an extensive catalogue of voids to relate with the widest void of Barcelona, which is the sea. Press the program from the city, press the program from inside the program.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. BOOKS.
Books. Innovation Campus. La nuova sede di Microsoft Italia.
Measure Pompeii. Observe Antiquity Through Drawing.
ETSAB
Co-edited by Ricardo Flores & Eva Prats, 2012. Edited by SKIRA, Milan, Italy. The edition focuses in showing not only the final result, but also the process material that served to develop the ideas and bring them to the construction site. Beginning with the initial sketches and study models, construction drawings, images of the building under construction, to end with the photographs of the completed work. With critical articles by Alessandra Coppa, Fortunato D’Amico, Luca Molinari and Pietro Scott Jovane. See the book in the link: http://www.youblisher.com/p/138201-Microsoft/ RICARDO FLORES I EVA PRATS
MESURAR POMPEIA
OBSERVAR L’ANTIGUITAT A TRAVÉS DEL DIBUIX
MESURAR POMPEIA
RICARDO FLORES I EVA PRATS
By Ricardo Flores & Eva Prats, 2011. Edited by ESPAIS ETSAB, Barcelona, Spain. This publication collects the experience of a study trip to Pompeii, a University Workshop, taking measurements of four houses as an argument to observe the antiquity through drawing. The exercise is to develop drawings which explain the design quality discovered in the studied house. With articles by Paolo Giardiello, Marella Santangelo, Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats. See the book in the link: http://issuu.com/flores-prats/docs/measure_pompeii 34
Through the Canvas.
By Ricardo Flores & Eva Prats, May 2008. Edited by ACTAR, Barcelona, Spain. This publication has been developed from an elective design studio taught by Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats as invited architects to the University of New South Wales in Sydney, in September 2004. The studio explored domesticity - the psycho-spatial concept of dwelling - and sponsored an approach to the design of the residential interior that escapes the usual assumptions about how we live. Provoked by both the studio itself as pedagogical model and the very subject that it explores, this publication aims to contribute to a broader cultural dialogue about the domestic interior and the nature of design. See the book in the link: http://www.floresprats.com/cv/pdfs/FloresPrats_28.pdf
John Hejduk. House for a Poet.
By Ricardo Flores & Eva Prats, June 2000. Edited by Edicions UPC, Barcelona, Spain. This publication puts together the material and discussions that came out of the workshop INVITATIONS, developed in June 1999 at the School of Architecture of Barcelona as part of the Post-graduate Master Program “Arquitectura. Crítica y Proyecto”. The workshop developed two parallel activities, the construction of a model in 1 to 3 scale of a project by John Hejduk, and a series of talks around the figure and work of this architect, transcribed in the book. To view this book go: http://www.floresprats.com/cv, then click in PUBLICACIONES, and then go to number 21.
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FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. ARTICLES.
Articles and writings. Flores & Prats Arquitectes Article for the Magazine Le Carré Bleu, Annex 3, 2008. Introducción y conclusión Article for the introduction of the book Sistemas Arquitectónicos Contemporáneos, of J. M. Montaner, edited by the Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. The text was presented at the auditorium of the COAC at the presentation of the book, October 2008.
Look twice Article about the architecture of the Melbourne based office NMBW, for the Magazine Architecture Australia, July-August 2008.
Cuestión de escala Article on the architecture of Architect Pancho Cadau in Campana, Buenos Aires, at Summa+ Magazine number 91, Buenos Aires, December 2007. Close-at-Hand Exercises with Distant Tutors Article about teaching architectural workshops in schools of architecture far away from where we normally teach and work, in particular the case of three architectural programs developed in Sydney and Perth, Australia. Magazine Architectural Theory Review, Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Sydney, Vol 11, no. 1, 2006. Barcelona - Sydney, Double Workshop Article for Visions núm.5, May 2006, Magazine of the School of Architecture of Barcelona. Por curiosidad... Magazine of the Sociedad Central de Arquitectos de Buenos Aires, number 221, Arquitectura de aquí para allá, July 2006.
Detenerse en los inicios Magazine of the Sociedad Central de Arquitectos de Buenos Aires, number 219, December 2005.
Through the Canvas, Buenos Aires.
Article about the workshop at the School of Architecture of Buenos Aires, at Summa+ magazine, núm.77, 2005.
Through the Canvas, Perth. Article at Document magazine núm 12, 2003/04, Review of the Curtin University of Technology in Perth. “Arquitectura del lleure al delta del Llobregat, 1954-1965”. Excerpt of the PhD Thesis of Eva Prats, in the Publication “Arquitectònics, Mind, Land & Society”, num. 8, 2004.
John Hejduk. House for a Poet. Publication Memorias Culturales from the seminar on John Hejduk at the School of Architecture of Valencia, on May 2001. Edited by the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, 2002.
Open City on the Architecture of the 50 in Barcelona Catalogue of the Exhibition “1856-1999 Barcelona Contemporània”, presented at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. 1996.
Full Sections
At the Book Enric Miralles. Mixed Talks. Academy Editions nº10. 1995.
How to Lay Out a Croissant Article with arch. Enric Miralles at El Croquis Magazine num. 49-50. 1991.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. PUBLICATIONS.
Publications of the work of the office. The office has been widely published, nationally and internationally, standing out the following publications:
Sala Beckett. Theatre and Workshop in Barcelona (2011- ). AVUI Newspaper, 13th December 2011. EL MUNDO Newspaper, 13th December 2011. EL PERIÓDICO Newspaper, 13th December 2011. LA VANGUARDIA Newspaper, 18th December 2011. TIME OUT, Magazine, December 2011. A Escena, TV Program, BTV CHANNEL, 21st December 2011.
Innovation Campus Microsoft Milan (2007-2011)
Quaderns nº 264. Annuary Number. Barcelona, 2012. Arquitectura+, Grandes Proyectos 2012-2013. Nº18, Barcelona 2012. ofARCH, International Magazine Nº 120, Milan, 2012. Dedalo Minosse International Awards, 8th Edition, Vicenza, 2011. L’ECO DI BERGAMO, Italian newspaper. 9th June 2011.
Building 111, Terrassa, Barcelona (2004-2011).
DETAIL, Nº 12/2012. Spain. Catallogue of the Panamerican Biennal of Quito, Básica baq2012. ZEPPELIN Magazine, Romania, April 2012. C3, Corean Magazine, N. 329. Seoul, Korea, 2012. INTERNI, October 2011, Milan. Revista Palimpsesto, ETSAB, Barcelona, 2011. EL PAÍS Newspaper, National Edition, 13th April 2011. LA VANGUARDIA Newspaper, 4th April 2011. Revista B-Guided n.47, Spring 2011, Pag. 28 a 33. Summa+ n. 113, February 2011. Diario ABC, 30 de Gener 2011, article de J.T.Almenar. Le Carré Bleu feuille internationale d’architecture, n.2/2010 and 3-4/2010. Arquitectura Catalana 2004-2009, Exhibition Catallogue, ACTAR, 2009. Il Giornale della Architettura n 23, Maig 2009, article de Iván Alcázar.
Nicaragua Square, in Barcelona (2005-2006).
DLLE Architectural Landscape, Nº4. Seoul, Korea, 2012 Plazas y entornos urbanos, Editorial Links, 2007. Patent Constructions. New Architecture Made In Catalonia, ACTAR, 2007. Architekt, Poland, num 09 2007.
Providencia House in Badalona, Barcelona (2003-2006). C3, Nº292. C3 Publishing Co. Seoul, Korea, 2008. Summa+ num 86, Buenos Aires, April 2007. Quaderns d’arquitecura i urbanisme, num 250, summer 2006.
Pius XII Square in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona (2003-2005). EP(S), Sunday issue of El País, num. 1.515, 9 October 2005. MONUMENT num 72, Sydney, April-May 2006. Patent Constructions. New Architecture Made in Catalonia, ACTAR, 2007. Summa+ num 86, Buenos Aires, April 2007.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. PUBLICATIONS.
YUTE’S, Extension of a warehouse in Barcelona (2000-2005). Quaderns d’arquitecura i urbanisme, num 252, winter 2006. ON Diseño 277, 2006. Detail num. 1, Feb-Mar 2007. Summa+ num 86, Buenos Aires, April 2007.
Mills Museum in Palma de Mallorca (1999-2002) Architectural Record, New York, January 2004. DBZ, Deutsche BauZeitschrift, num 1, January 2004. de Architect, Holland, December, 2002. ON Diseño num 242, Barcelona, May 2003. Summa+ num 59, Buenos Aires, May 2003.
Nuevo Triunfo Hotel**, Barcelona (1999-2001). DETAIL, 10th Anniversary. Nº8, 2011. Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme num 238, 2003. Conarquitectura num 5, Madrid, June 2002. UR Arquitectura, num 1 Viajar, December 2006. Summa+ num 86, Buenos Aires, April 2007.
Public Garden Fabra & Coats, Sant Andreu, Barcelona (1997-99). Summa+ nº44, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2000. Catalogue of the V Premio de Arquitectura de Ladrillo Hispalyt 1997/1999. 041 Magazine, Rosario (Santa Fé), Argentina, 4/2000. de Architect Magazine, The Netherlands, November 2000. Quaderns nº228, Barcelona, 2001.
Urban Planning for the City Centre of Vilanova i la Geltrú. (1998-99). LA NACIÓN Newspaper of Buenos Aires, 10th June 1998; AB Magazine, nº 63, Barcelona, 1998; SD 9808 architectural magazine, Tokyo, 1998; Catalogue 3ª International Bienal of Urbanism of Buenos Aires. April 2000.
House in a Suitcase. Penthouse in Barcelona (1996 -1997). Small Houses, Laurence King Publishing Ltd, Spring 2003. Pequeños Espacios Domésticos. LOFT Publications, Barcelona, 2001. El País Semanal Newspaper magazine n.1264, 17 Dec. 2000. Bauen in Europa, Munster, Germany. January 2002.
Project of 45 Dwellings in Calella. First Prize Europan III (1994). Arquitectos nº133, Madrid 1994; AB nº43, Barcelona, 1994; Europan III Catalogue, 1994. Europan iii Spanish Catalogue. 1994. 10 years of Europan in Spain, 1999.
FLORES & PRATS ARCHS. LECTURES.
Lectures 2013 - 2014. Drawing Without Erasing. Keeping the process in sight. 9th April 2014.
Eva Prats lectures at Arizona State University, Phoenix, Az. as part of the lecture series Conversations & Allusions.
Documentary film Meeting at the Building. 17th January 2014. Presented in Barcelona, at the Auditorium of Moritz Club.
Meeting at the Building. 18th July 2013.
Lecture at Sydney University, at the Thursday Night Lectures, as part of the Urban Islands International Workshop program.
Rewind & Fast Forward. 11th July 2013.
Lecture at Qld Chapter Auditorium, South Brisbane, Australia.
Documentary film Meeting at the Building. 6th July 2013. Presented in Sydney, Premiere at Neeson Murcutt’s Office.
Sobretaules # 5: Theatre, Theatres, Learning, Making Architecture. 21st October 2013.
Lecture at the Fishbowl ETSAB, with further discussion about theater with Joan Casas (Playwright and Professor of Theatre), Eva Prats ( Professor at ETSAB and Architect of the New Sala Beckett), Iván Alcázar (theater critic and part of the Observatori d’Espais Escènics) and Toni Ramon (Professor at ETSAB and Observatori d’Espais Escènics).
Torresana: Teamwork. Monday 18th November 2013.
Lecture about the teamwork during the process of development of the new neighborhood in Torresana, Terrassa, until the definition of a particular case of Building 111. Auditorium of the School of Architecture of Barcelona.
Building 111. 24th October 2013.
Eva Prats presents at the International Congress of Environmental Psychology, in the specific Agora of Post-occupancy Assessment: Urban and Architectural Hybridity and Social Interaction. CosmoCaixa Centre, Barcelona.
La dimensión social de la vivienda. 18th October 2013.
Lecture at the XXII International Symposium of Architecture in Monterrey, México.
Public Spaces and Housing. 19th April 2013.
Lecture at the Master in Collective Housing of the Universitat Politècnica de Madrid.
Sala Beckett a l’Obrador. 25th February 2013.
Lecture at the Design Studio X of the School of Architecture of Barcelona.