Dipòsit Del Rei Martí
DIPÒSIT DEL REI MARTÍ
Archikubik S.L.P.
YEAR
2016
LOCATION
Barcelona, Spain
TYPE
Commercial › Exhibition Center
In the former property where Antoni Gaudí built the Bellesguard Tower, there was recently discovered a big water tank, buried under a pine forest, from the end of the 19th century.
The project consists in preserving it in order to create an open space to the public, maintaining the magic of this underground water tank and the architectural rhythm created by the Catalan vaults and arcs every 3.5m.
The access by the Bellesguard street opens on a levelled public square which gets narrower towards the entrance of the water tank space.
This new square restores in the district a new public identity.
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This new square, which has the function to serve as entrance hall for the reservoir, works as an urban activator with the incorporation in the program of a bar which makes the articulation between the main entrance and the public garden.
Connections and visual relations with the Bellesguard Tower are created through the materiality of the big concrete walls which become integrated organoleptically with the pine forest which over it.
This allows the city the opportunity to enjoy a different cultural experience.
Inside the water tank space, the floor and walls are dressed in wooden fabrics, vaults and arcs restored, emphasizing a space with unique morphology and in atypical acoustics.
