巴拉格尔文化中心

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原名称：BaLaGeEr cultural center
设计单位：Flores & Prats工作室和Duch-Piza事务所
位置：西班牙 帕尔马
巴塞罗那的Flores & Prats工作室和Duch-Piza事务所设计了巴拉格尔文化中心，位于西班牙的帕尔马地区，文化中心是在之前巴洛克建筑的基础上建造的。中心的外观采用镀锌材料，棱角分明，非常醒目。这里的建筑都是古建筑，之前是一座宫殿，建于13世纪。建筑师改建了私人住房，将这里打造成公共的文化中心。

扩建的中心空间宽敞，里面设施齐全，除了展厅外，还有餐馆、博物馆和图书馆。建造时，拆除了部分旧墙，添加了新的设计和功能。建筑师Eva Prats 和Ricardo Flores表示，改造私人建筑建造公共场所的过程中，房子的很多方面都会改变。但是，我们的首要任务是保留房子的特性，尊重历史和原来的风格，注重整体性。

从主入口进去后，会看到一个露天的庭院，通向房子后边，室内一直保留着原始的地板，没有进行改动。这里新建了很多房间，在庭院用块体混凝土建造了楼梯，楼梯一直延伸到屋顶的平台，还增设了电梯。屋顶新建了天窗，利于采光，室内的光线很充足。文化中心正好建在旧房子的缝隙处，天井的设计看上去很美观，保证了建筑物的采光效果。和周围的房子相比，这里的设计很有特色。

Eva Prats 和Ricardo Flores表示，最有新意的部分就是在旧建筑的基础上建造新项目，不用刻意区分新旧建筑。整体性比较好。之前的桁架已经生锈了，都不能用了，已经换成新的了。沿着图书馆附近的走廊走，就可到达屋顶。屋顶是采用镀锌材料建造的，上面有多个采光井。文化中心的后面就是餐馆，非常方便。这里视野开阔，能看到周围不同的房间。

译者：筑龙网 Odette

Sloping zinc surfaces intersect the tiled roof of this Baroque palace in Palma de Mallorca – part of an extension by Barcelona studio Flores & Prats and Palma practice Duch-Pizá that transforms the building into a cultural centre (+ slideshow).The Casal Balaguer palace comprises an assemblage of buildings constructed in stages since the 13th century on the Spanish island. Flores & Prats and Duch-Pizá were tasked with altering its use from a private property to a public cultural centre.

The building's sprawling plan has been rationalised and brought up-to-date to provide suitable access and facilities for the exhibition spaces, restaurant, museum and library now located on the site.Some of the existing walls were removed and the resulting spaces assigned new functions based on their size and physical properties, while new additions have been designed using materials that complement original features.

"When transforming the building from private to public some aspects of the house must change, but our priority was always not to lose the domestic character of this building or the memory of its previous use as house," Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores told Dezeen. "Moving through the building should still be like moving from one ambience within the house to another."The main entrance leads to a covered courtyard adjoining an open-air patio. This connects to a further covered section towards the rear of the building, where an original floor has been retained.

New circulation areas were introduced to connect the various rooms, and a concrete staircase and elevator were added in an existing courtyard.The staircase is formed from monolithic concrete sections with a haphazard appearance that references the building's muddled internal spaces.Skylights above the new circulation areas, including the concrete staircase, channel natural light into some of the darker inner rooms.

Positioned in gaps between sections of the building constructed at different times, these lightwells were designed with a raw, contemporary aesthetic that deliberately contrasts with the adjacent historical rooms, which are left largely unchanged."The most innovative feature is the making of a new project out of a previous one, without imposing it and without differentiation between the existing and the new," Flores and Prats added. "This grafting architecture, where you do not recognise which part of the building is from which time, is what has interested us."

Another stairway leads towards the roof terrace, ascending around the outside of an original cupola that intersects the stairs and creates a rounded contrast to the angular walls.The rotten trusses of the existing roof were completely removed and the profile was altered to allow a library with a single span to be incorporated beneath.

A doorway leads out from a corridor next to the library onto the roof terrace, which is surrounded by the jutting forms of the various light wells and zinc-covered roofs.A new restaurant occupying three spaces in the cultural centre's back corner features tall angular openings in the dividing walls that allow views between the different rooms.

Casal Balaguer is a palace of the historic centre of Palma, a flood over the centuries family home, starting in 1300, then in 1500 and finally in 1700, which now loses its household to be a public building, a cultural centre for the entire city. To value the times contained in the building, without taking physical distance with the historical stages that have shaped its qualities, allows us to act without departing from him: if observation do not distinguish times, the action must not have distances.

We act from within it, a physical and direct thought, transforming the building with the decision to re-occupying it, giving it a new era of longer life making it more sustainable. Having drawn the building for a long time let us decide on it, and in this sense the drawing gives us the confidence to work on what was found without physical and temporal distances with the story, in a continuous time which makes new interventions get incorporated appearing to our eyes as if they had already existed.The end result is a new generation, with legacy and new things, a job that takes the strain existing and draw from it. It is a geometric metamorphosis, but also of materials, proportions and dimensions.

The building is updated based on the previous one, a transformation that welcomes the new features. The effort is to make the ancient palace express its maximum spatial, materials, and historical qualities... because the new function gives us the freedom to draw a new project within the previous building. Taking it as a construction, without the typical constraints of the use for which it was intended, allow us to stop seeing it as a building of domestic dimensions, and move on to assess their spatial and physical as the start of the new occupation qualities.

Explore the unfinished condition of the existing building, suggests that actions on it are not over, it is something evolving, imperfect result of the addition of steps in which ours is just one more, not the last. This dialogue of confidence in what we find, in a positive observation that values and respects as signs of an earlier occupation, giving the project a temporary sense which makes would not be possible to recognise from what time is this place.

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