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Port Museum
Port Museum
Barcelona, Spain
Special Mention, 2024 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Learning
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Port Museum
Barcelona, Spain
Special Mention, 2024 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Learning
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
What is the Port Museum
The rompeolas (The breakwater), the former East Dock of the Port of Barcelona, designed in 1859, built in 1914 and maintained until the opening of the new mouth in 2003, constitutes an element rooted in the memory of the citizens. The Port-Museum proposal wants to remember what was there in the last 100 years, thanks to a set of museographic elements integrated into the public space.
What makes up museography?
The theming reveals a port infrastructure used by citizens as a leisure place by the sea and strongly rooted in the collective imagination. To explain the impact and importance of the place, three lines of argument were defined: the port's protection infrastructure that explains the magnitude of this maritime work; the work, as a direct consequence of the new morphology; and the social citizen use that incorporated the place into the city's public spaces.
How the global idea is projected
A series of pieces and elements installed in an integrated manner throughout the area evoke the history of the place through the in situ experience. The proposal seeks to invite the user to reflection and experiential recreation.
What is its materialization?
Each thematic element has a double reading, the narrative, which explains the history of the place, and also that of an object in the public space designed for the use of the citizen.
The indicative-explanatory elements common to the entire intervention are made of Corten steel, a material associated with the port legacy, resistant to the saline environment. The replicas of original pieces are black, referring to traditional forging, finally, galvanized steel has been used to build the abstractions of singular elements. The entire complex builds a kind of urban language that configures a new vision for the user of public space.
The rompeolas (The breakwater), the former East Dock of the Port of Barcelona, designed in 1859, built in 1914 and maintained until the opening of the new mouth in 2003, constitutes an element rooted in the memory of the citizens. The Port-Museum proposal wants to remember what was there in the last 100 years, thanks to a set of museographic elements integrated into the public space.
What makes up museography?
The theming reveals a port infrastructure used by citizens as a leisure place by the sea and strongly rooted in the collective imagination. To explain the impact and importance of the place, three lines of argument were defined: the port's protection infrastructure that explains the magnitude of this maritime work; the work, as a direct consequence of the new morphology; and the social citizen use that incorporated the place into the city's public spaces.
How the global idea is projected
A series of pieces and elements installed in an integrated manner throughout the area evoke the history of the place through the in situ experience. The proposal seeks to invite the user to reflection and experiential recreation.
What is its materialization?
Each thematic element has a double reading, the narrative, which explains the history of the place, and also that of an object in the public space designed for the use of the citizen.
The indicative-explanatory elements common to the entire intervention are made of Corten steel, a material associated with the port legacy, resistant to the saline environment. The replicas of original pieces are black, referring to traditional forging, finally, galvanized steel has been used to build the abstractions of singular elements. The entire complex builds a kind of urban language that configures a new vision for the user of public space.
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