https://floresprats.com/archive/sala-beckett-project/
Flores & Prats, Sala Becket t. Barcelona, 2011-2017
A few years earlier in 2014, also in Barcelona, Catalan architects Flores & Prats worked on an analogous project of adaptive reuse: Sala Beckett . In rehabilitating a former social club used in the past for family celebrations, memory is the red thread connecting old and new, on the verge between nostalgia and experimentalism. The building is transformed into a theatre and a dramaturgy school. Instead of accommodating the new program in one specific and well-defined area, the architects fragment the program and diffuse it over every corner of the building. The building itself becomes the theatre: materials, decorations, object trouvé and interior vistas shape the main theatrical activity. The intervention in the old building reveals itself as a process of anastylosis where existing and new fragments are re-composed in a novel fashion. Notions of legibility and atmosphere regulate the relation between old and new, and connect the interiors to the history of the surrounding neighbourhood. Sala Beckett as well as the Lleialtat Santsenca Civic Centre are not questioning ideas of image and function. They constitute a composite artifact: a combination of old and new patterns, entropic relations, interior and urban components.
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