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CarrerasMugica Art Gallery
Bilbao, Spain. 2014
Direct Commission. Area: 900m2CLIENT: Galería CarrerasMúgica
ARCHITECTS: Estudio Herreros (Juan Herreros, Jens Richter)
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: E2 Arquitectura (Germán Hurtado)
PROJECT ARCHITECT: José Baldó
PROJECT TEAM: Abraham Piñate, Carmen Antón, María Franco, Víctor Lacima, Leonardo Tamargo
STRUCTURES: Eduardo Barrón
LIGHTING: Antón Amann
PHOTOGRAPHIES: Adrià GoulaAwards
-COAM Award Luis M. Mansilla 2015: Special Mention
-COAVN Architecture Award 2016An old warehouse occupies the heart of an urban expansion of Bilbao that is accessed by a tunnel that crosses the residential junctions. There, a program is deployed, composed of premises for storing and handling works of art, administrative and meeting areas, spaces for experimentation and specific projects, and a large central room that is the centre of the program. The architecture embraces what a few materials offers —exposed concrete structures, continuous industrial flooring, white walls levitating over recessed baseboards, some furniture— to construct the basic ingredients of an exhibition space —floors, walls and ceilings— in which the works of art are given the responsibility for characterising it. The reinterpretation of the original system of skylights generates a series of light capture devices similar to periscopes. Their volumes generate on the roof of the warehouse a new industrial landscape given to the city that stitches together the past, present and future of a surprising place.