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Arquitecta. Titulada per l’ ETSAB el 1979, fundà estudi amb Enric Miralles l’any 1982 on van desenvolupar obres com el cementiri d’Igualada, premi FAD 1991, l’Escola la Llauna (1986) o les instal·lacions de Tir Olímpic (1991). Al 1991 va obrir el seu estudi d’arquitectura abordant projectes tant de reforma urbana, obra pública i mobiliari. Ha realitzat projectes tals com l’Escola Massana (2017), el Campus WU a Viena (2013) o CaixaForum a Saragossa (2014)
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Pergolas in Major Square
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
These roofs are the first step to make the square possible again, to create a new centre defined by its shadows. Now, these roofs attract the eye and are the place to start thinking about the next interventions. The construction mechanism is identical to its drawing: a main beam in successive contractions forms the surface on which to support each of the roofs. A pillar is the support of two of these. Finding a line inside, following it as if it were a path... then, the most elementary geometry is formed, the one that follows someone's impulses. We find inside what we call a project. -
La Llauna Secondary School
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
La Llauna Secondary School is a project by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós to refurbish and adapt an early 20th century factory – the Gottardo Factory of Andreis Metalgraf Española, popularly known as ‘La Llauna’ – to convert it into a secondary school in Badalona. One of the most remarkable strategies of the project is its positioning with respect to what was there beforehand. Certain key points of the building are spared to improve the quality of the spaces and the relationship between them, as well as to highlight the intervention within the original building. At other points, however, the building is simply stripped bare or underlain by the addition of new volumes that generate new spaces. The result is an intervention that respects the pre-existence, resignifying it and making it part of the new functioning of the building. The access, located on Carrer de Sagunt, is one of the examples of the strategy explained. This is configured by means of a large metal sliding door that draws a curve in the floor with its opening. This is fitted into a vertical strip in the façade formed by openings in the upper floors, emptying the original façade and highlighting the entrance to the new school through this new fitting. The access gives way to a large free ground floor, which is designed as the ample space that is lacking in the street through which the school is accessed, leaving only the original structure of the factory and cornering off the essential services such as the caretaker's office or the secretary's office. This design of the ground floor as a new public space is reinforced by the placement of typical urban elements such as lampposts and bicycle racks. The stairwell can be accessed through the ground floor, on the side where the services such as the concierge's office are located, directly via stairs, and on the side of this new free space, via three large ramps that complement the desired experience in this large space and stop at the height of the lattice beams that support the forging. From this point, stairs continue the access to the hall situated on the first floor, designed as a meeting point between the classrooms located on the first floors. The hall is presented as a large double-height space thanks to the hollowing out of the floor slabs, which allows visual relations to be established with the upper and lower floors, becoming a balcony over the entrance. The materials used in the intervention are mainly three: concrete block, iron and wood. The first two materials are already present in the original building, leaving wood as an element that brings warmth and domesticity to the spaces and breaks with the typical factory aesthetic. Thus, concrete blocks are mainly used in the new interior enclosures, while iron is used for the structure of the lighter elements supported by the original structure, such as staircases or entrance devices. Wood often complements the metal structure by forming the steps, handrails or even the flooring, and is also used for elements such as benches. -
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Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Interior Design - RehabilitationLa Llauna Secondary SchoolThe New Igualada Cemetery
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
The cemetery is conceived as a park, as ‘the house of the living’, a place to enjoy the sun and tranquillity any day of the week. The configuration of the park takes advantage of a promontory in the terrain to create a longitudinal eyelet and create a zigzagging downhill route, until it reaches a stream located a few metres below. The complete project envisaged the three arms of the zigzag, although in the first phase only one has been built and the beginning of the second is hinted at. The niches are arranged on both sides of the route, forming intermediate terraces. Transversal steps provide access to the lateral terraces, generating a movement of ascent and descent charged with allegorical connotations. The construction of the groups of niches is always done with prefabricated concrete parts, as well as the cladding of the retaining walls. The result is that the deceased are always underground, and visitors to the park descend to the lower level until they are on the same level as the deceased. The chapel is located at the entrance of the route, inducing a ritual that begins with the funeral and goes down to each niche. Enric Miralles is buried in one of the pantheons bordering the square that marks the turn between the first and second arms.Premi Ciutat de Barcelona
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and UrbanismArchery RangePremi Ciutat de Barcelona
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and UrbanismInstal·lacions de Competició de Tir amb ArcFAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner (ex aequo). Category: Buildings of new plant for public useThe New Igualada CemeteryArchery Range
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
The archery facilities are, in fact, the training facilities of this sport built for the 1992 Olympic Games. The competition facilities were on the other side of Granja Vella Street, originally built by the same architects but currently gone. The surviving building is one of the clearest tributes to Park Güell ever built. Like the park, it is configured from the retaining walls that support and limit the upper pedestrian walkway. These retaining walls bend and work organically based on the athletes’ movements as they train. The building consists of covering one of this wall’s folds with a folded roof, an extension of the upper landscape. Mechanical ceramics, together with concrete and cement, form the unique material of the whole intervention. The structures look unstable, crooked, or twisted, depending on the pushing force of the lands they contain. A system of porches covers much of the retaining wall that forms the building, extends it externally, blurs its limits and protects the dry stone that forms them. The roofs have an approximate modulus of the wall’s height and are made up of a series of concrete slabs that slide together with a series of lower gutters that collect and conduct water towards some practiced puddles in the pavement. The interior of the building is paved with curved and exposed ceramic walls that form the dressing rooms and leave the common areas against the back wall. It forms a “landscape that looks at itself”, said Enric Miralles, which is illuminated zenithally through the cracks in the roof and leaving spaces of great beauty, although a little degraded today. The vegetation has been growing from the time when the construction was built until the present day, and it confuses the buildings with a renaturalised environment that introduces additional complexity to the complex.Hostalets de Balenyà Civic Centre
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
The programme called for the inclusion of a civic centre on a site on the outskirts of Hostalets de Balenyà. Miralles and Pinós conceived a building that turns its back on the village and creates a transparent façade that generates its own public space on the other side of the street. The smaller parts of the programme (workshops, classrooms, offices) are hung on the upper floors, formed by a system of lattice beams that open out in a fan shape and have the height of a floor. This fan determines the inner garden and the large space below, which is an assembly hall for 300 people. The programme is interpreted hierarchically and in combination with the reading of the site, so the building could accommodate programmes with a similar layout. The access stairs in the attic embrace the building on both sides, one on the inside and the other on the outside.La Mina Social Centre
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
It is an attempt at a construction on a grand scale. These rooves that here are floors and balconies, might be rooves of a garden: it is a construction that makes the necessity of thinking of the the building envelope disappear... The upper surface of concrete solves the problem of the acoustic deficiencies and the room and gives a new dimension to this place to achieve a scenic space where the positions of the actor and public are interchangeable. The balconies are possible places of representation, but also walking arcades. In between the pillars looks like the best place to position the panels of the exhibitions. One should visit this place like the annexe of a local park and for this reason the calligraphy goes out to the exterior.Garau-Agustí House
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
This house is mainly a wall, shaped by the movements of the furniture which tries to find its correct position into the room. The interior of a room! The delicate movements of the furniture then enter the garden which forms a continuity with the interior of the house. The back of the house runs on the limit of the urbanistic permission of the piece of land. This limit is the edge used to support the geometry of the house, which finds its place into the strict limitations of the soil. The real façade of the house is in the back, where an important piece of garden grows beneath the perimetral walls of the house and of the garden.FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Interiorisme - Obres de Decoració d'Espais InteriorsLa Mina Social CentreFAD Award
Finalist. Category: Arquitectura - Edificis de Nova Planta, Obres de Reforma o Rehabilitació d'Edificis ExistentsHostalets de Balenyà Civic CentreLa Serra Secondary School
L’escola es troba en uns terrenys agrícoles, amb arbres fruiters i petites construccions amb cobertes a dos vessants. Aquests elements suggereixen el concepte de repetició d’elements com a generador de la composició, a més de la voluntat de concentrar l’edificació i ocupar poca superfície de terreny. L’edifici planteja un joc de cobertes inclinades de diferents alçàries, amb tres plantes al llarg de l’eix central i una planta a les crugies perimetrals, la qual cosa crea el ritme repetitiu desitjat. L’escola s’organitza en tres cossos que formen una Y: en un braç hi ha el gimnàs i les activitats esportives; el segon braç és destinat a les aules, mentre que el tercer acull l’entrada i l’aparcament. Les aules s’agrupen entorn de patis per tal d’augmentar la compacitat de l’edifici. Aquests patis funcionen com espais intermedis entre l’interior i l’exterior. Les aules i els laboratoris estan orientats a l’est. Només les àrees de servei i les oficines administratives reben el sol de la tarda. El gran eix central, il·luminat des de dalt, connecta i relaciona tot el programa. És un espai obert i unitari, que proporciona un lloc de referència per als estudiants dins la totalitat de l’edifici.Lluís Vives Primary School
The general approach of the project responds to two of the site’s characteristics: the intermittent noise of the train and a too close exposure to the houses that surround it. The L-shaped building is located away from the houses and parallel to the railway, so that it encloses the plot and creates a courtyard facing south. This makes it possible to protect the play area from the noise of the train and from the views of the houses. The ground floor of one of the wings is intended for common spaces. The smallest ones are placed on the ground floor of the other wing, which have their own outdoor space and their classrooms on the upper floor, facing the inside of the plot and turning their backs on the train track.Rear Façade of La Boqueria Market
The expansion of the Boqueria responds to the need to create a new market façade in the place that until now occupied the loading and unloading area for goods and waste, moved to the basement of the car park. To give continuity to the existing roofs without competing with them, we choose to change the scale by creating lower roofs and closer to what is considered an open market of public space. We decide to change the rhythm of the existing porticos -which currently give us a symmetrical image focused on the office tower- for a freer roof structure that provides it with a more vital nature and allows its integration with the trees and the circulations of the square.Audiovisual
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