Former Cement Factory - Now : Workspace and Residence of Ricardo Bofill

Have you ever imagined a former Cement Factory can turned into a beautiful-super cool workspace and even a place to live in? Well i never did, but then i saw this interesting article on Yatzer. Yep, A Real former Cement Factory is now the workspace and residence of Ricardo Bofill. Mr. Architect himself, Ricardo Bofill bought this Old cement Factory which discovered in 1973, abandoned and partially ruined.

"Bofill imagined the future spaces and created a layout according to the different aesthetic and plastic predispositions that had developed since WWI and were present within the factory. A compendium of surrealist elements; paradoxical stairs that climbed to nowhere, the absurdity of certain elements that hung over voids, compelling but useless spaces of strange proportion but magical because of their tension and disproportion. Elements of abstraction; pure volumes which reveal themselves at times broken and impure as well as elements of brutalism; abrupt treatment and sculptural qualities of the materials. Being seduced by the elements of contradiction and the vagueness of the space he decided to preserve the factory and modify the original brutality (due to the coarse of nature and the former program), and sculpt it like a work of art. All these magical elements stand in the midst of transformed gardens which were once the yard of a cement factory."

Ricardo Bofill currently lives and works in The Cement Factory better than anywhere else, it is the only place where he can concentrate, associate ideas in the most abstract manner, and finally creates projects, and constitutes a specific vocabulary for his architecture.

“To be an architect means to understand space, to understand space organized by man, to decipher the spontaneous movements and behavior of people, and to detect the needs of change that they might unconsciously express. It is essential to track down these issues if we want to contribute with our personal work to the history of architecture.”
Ricardo Bofill

Architect: Ricardo Bofill
Program: Architectural Offices / Archives / Model Laboratory / Exhibition Space / Bofill's-apartment / Guest Rooms / Gardens
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Total floor area: 3,100 square meters and gardens
House area: 500 square meters
Date Completed: 1975
All images courtesy of Ricardo Bofill

Source : Yatzer

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