Palau Sant Jordi designed for the 1992 Olympics, by Arata Isozaki, has evolved and changed its skin into multiple, different and variable faces during the last two decades. Becoming temporary home to massive and internationally renowned bands, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna or the Rolling Stones have strolled through its rooms, scenarios and walls. The VIP lounges built a specific core to the extravagant happenings conceived in those walls. Thought as capsules built into the geometry of Palau Sant Jordi, they provide a safe yet exciting and entertaining space that grew into the existing structure. The existing spaces where 3D bounded and later modeled to fit the new lounge capsules. Each panel covering the wall is made of steel and light, designed and parameterized with different patterns of texture, perforation and LED RGB. The 418 different panels were separately laser cut and manufactured using the very new technologies without increasing the cost and time of production. The capsules shape a new atmosphere for its events. A new space that can fit the multiple events happening in the Palau at the same time it takes the visitors to a completely different kind of dimension. It is a space travel through sensations and feelings. The VIP lounges represent the new experience that completes and accompanies the tours of the great stars.
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