CAN FRAMIS Museum

CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia

CAN FRAMIS MUSEUM

Jordi Badia

ARCHITECTS
Jordi Badia

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Barcelona, Spain

CATEGORY
Museum

Text description provided by architect.

The new Fundación Vila Casas museum is located in the 22@ District, an area where Barcelona City Hall has promoted a full redevelopment of a former factory/heavy industry zone by substituting premises with light service industries.

CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia

It is now primarily a high-rise, heavily built-up area housing service/hi-tech industries. With “Can Framis” we aim to play on contrasts, with a surrounding garden providing a tranquil breathing space away from the hubbub of speed and time.

The mainly-paved garden will have many trees and winding paths which will embellish the cloak of ivy which already covers the environs and in the future will enshroud the building and trees. 

The two buildings to be preserved have little architectural worth and are currently derelict. 

CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia

Their main interest lies in the contrast of their location, based on the former agricultural sketches prior to the implementation of the Cerdà plan at a level of 1.5m below the current road.

The project consists in restoring the two current factory buildings and constructing a new one which will link them, coinciding with the site of another former warehouse which - as a whole - will form a courtyard, paved with stones recovered from the former factory, which will be the main entrance to the museum.

Visitors will begin on the highest level and continuously move downwards through semi-lit areas, which will then light up to showpiece the exhibited pieces.

CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia

Wood appears copiously on window frames, staircases and between the buildings, as well as on the painting support screens, in reference to the material of the canvas frames.

Outside, the lime mortar which blends with the existing stonework merges with the exposed concrete of the new buildings. The façade then becomes a collage of textures, niches and coverings which reflect the different ups-and-downs of the building throughout time.

CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia


CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia


CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia


CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia


CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia


CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia


CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia
CAN FRAMIS Museum
Courtesy of Jordi Badia