Grao Flour Mill

Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos

Grao Flour Mill 

VAM10 arquitectura y paisaje

TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE AND MANAGEMENT
Aig

ENGINEERING COMPANY
Valnu Sl

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Miguel Del Rey, Antonio Gallud, Juan Ignacio Fuster

MANUFACTURERS
Actiu, Gradhermetic, Luciferos, Mapei, Oficines, Simes

PHOTOGRAPHS
David Frutos

AREA
4196 M²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Valencia, Spain

CATEGORY
Office Buildings, Renovation, Historic Preservation

Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos

La Harinera del Grao is a building focused on promoting entrepreneurship, both in terms of training and business incubation, as well as in the field of innovative entrepreneurship, start-ups, social innovation, maker movement, etc.

Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos

The restoration project can be described as an "in process" intervention in which the building takes on a new stage of its life - a complex life throughout which the building has been technologically adapted over time while maintaining the character of its volumes and presence in the city's architecture.

A contemporary structure of prefabricated concrete replaces what was originally a wooden structure, later made of steel, to meet technological changes while preserving the architectural qualities of this industrial heritage.

Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos

It consists of several bodies built at different times: The Flour Mill Building (1921), complemented by the Burben Building (1941) separated by a service courtyard.

In the 1960s it was completed with a perpendicular annex and splendid silos that have since disappeared.

Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
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The existing facades at the time of intervention and remnants from industrial archaeology were basic elements for this new life for the building.

After emergency intervention by the City Council due to imminent ruin, a "Structural Consolidation" project was developed which stabilized it allowing recovery within an ongoing concept that could be described as "in process".

Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos

This continues with the life process that characterizes the building, adapting structurally over time but maintaining its volume character and presence in the City’s architecture.

The project allowed the adaptation to its structure including the construction of new floors while stabilizing surviving facades from ruin.

Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos

Its structural proposal solves stability issues, fire resistance, and spatial, characteristics of industrial structures, returning value expected from a protected 20th-century industrial architecture.

The new structure solves architectural stability issues enabling intended uses under necessary resistance conditions without detracting value from spatiality inherent to architecture itself proposing contemporary structures replacing original wood or steel structures now resolved with prefabricated concrete, attending to technological changes at that time and architectural permanence qualities of this industrial heritage.

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Grao Flour Mill
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Grao Flour Mill
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Grao Flour Mill
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Grao Flour Mill
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Grao Flour Mill
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Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos


Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos
Grao Flour Mill
© David Frutos


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