CAN FRAMIS MUSEUM

Project

The new Fundación Vila Casas museum is located in the 22@ District, an area where Barcelona City Hall has promoted a full redevelopment of a former factory/heavy industry zone by substituting premises with light service industries. It is now primarily a high-rise, heavily built-up area housing service/hi-tech industries.
  
With "Can Framis" we aim to play on contrasts, with a surrounding garden providing a tranquil breathing space away from the hubbub of speed and time. The mainly-paved garden will have many trees and winding paths which will embellish the cloak of ivy which already covers the environs and in the future will enshroud the building and trees.
The two buildings to be preserved have little architectural worth and are currently derelict. Their main interest lies in the contrast of their location, based on the former agricultural sketches prior to the implementation of the Cerdà plan at a level of 1.5m below the current road.
The project consists in restoring the two current factory buildings and constructing a new one which will link them, coinciding with the site of another former warehouse which - as a whole - will form a courtyard, paved with stones recovered from the former factory, which will be the main entrance to the museum.
Visitors will begin on the highest level and continuously move downwards through semi-lit areas, which will then light up to showpiece the exhibited pieces.
Wood appears copiously on window frames, staircases and between the buildings, as well as on the painting support screens, in reference to the material of the canvas frames.
Outside, the lime mortar which blends with the existing stonework merges with the exposed concrete of the new buildings. The façade then becomes a collage of textures, niches and coverings which reflect the different ups-and-downs of the building throughout time.

Related information:

» Photos FG+SG
» Photos Pedro Pegenaute
» Pedro Kok Video

Team

• Architecture
  Jordi Badia + Jordi Framis
• Collaborators
  Daniel Guerra, Marta Vitório, Miguel Borrell, Mercè Mundet, Moisés Garcia.
• Computation structures
  BOMA. Josep Ramón Solé
• Calculation facilities
  PGI
• Measurements and Budget
  FCA Forteza Carbonell Associats.
• Execution address
  Meritxell Bosch (GPO)
• Landscaping
  Martí Franch
• Project Management
  LAYETANA
• Construction
  Constructora San José
• Promoter
  Fundació Vila Casas. Layetana
• Images
  Photos: © Pegenaute, © SG+FG. Fernando Guerra

Publications

• Architektur aktuell 358-359 (Germany)
  Year 2010 Pp. 76 - 89 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Area 109 (Italy)
  Year 2010 Pp. 90-101 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Arquitectura COAM 357
  Year 2009 Pp. 24 - 29 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Arquitectura Viva 126
  Year 2010 Pp. 11 Project: Can Framis Museum
• AV contemporanea 1
  Year 2010 Pp. 16 Project: Can Framis Museum
• AV Monogaphs 2010
  Year 2010 Pp.16, 44-51 Project: Museo Can Framis
• b-guided 41
  Year 2009 Pp. 26 - 29 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Barcelona, Transformació. Plans i projectes
  Year 2009 Pp. 64 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Barcelona. Arquitectura contemporanea 1979-2010
  Year 2010 Pp. 130 - 131 Project:Can Framis Museum
• Betonart 25 (Turkey)
  Year 2010 Pg. 30 - 35 Project: Can Framis Museum
• BOMA
  Year 2011 Pp. 40-41. Project: Can Framis Museum
• C3 305 (Korea)
  Year 2010 Pp. 100 - 115 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Can Framis Barcelona. Ed. Fundació Vila Casas
  Year 2011 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Casabella 780 (Italy)
  Year 2009 Pp. 38 - 47 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Catalogue Exposición Arquitectura Catalana 2004-2009 en París, «Retrato de una época»
  Year 2009 Pp. 90 - 91 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Catalogue Lamp Awards
  Year 2010 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Dax 30 (Netherlands)
  Year 2010 Pp. 66-75 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Dax. Jaargang 5 30 (Netherlands)
  Year 2010 Pp. 66-75. Project: Can Framis Museum
• db 5 (Germany)
  Year 2010 Pp. 12-13 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Des bureaux dopants. Mixité Urbaine
  Year 2011 Pp. 96-109. Project: Can Framis Museum
• Emedos 136
  Year 2010 Pp. 209 - 217 Project: Can Framis Museum
• INDE
  Year 2010 Pp.24 Project: Can Framis Museum
• L'industria delle costruzioni 414 (Italy)
  Año 2010 Pp. 42-47 Project: Can Framis Museum
• L'informatiu Caatb 314
  Year 2009 Pp. 12 Project: Can Framis Museum
• L'informatiu Caatb 320
  Year 2010 Pg. 158 - 67 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Landscape Architecture China 2010 (China)
  Año 2010 Pp. 52-57 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Lighting Concepts 2010
  Year 2010 Pp. 24-27 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Oficinas 274
  Year 2008 Pp. 113 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Oficinas 282
  Year 2010 Pp. 15 Project: Can Framis Museum
• ON diseño 303
  Year 2009 Pp. 100 - 107 Project: Can Framis Museum
• ON diseño 309
  Year 2010 Pp. 40 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Oris 57 (Croatia)
  Year 2009 Pp. 80 - 89 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Panorama 3
  Year 2009 Pp. 03 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Patrimonio Industriale 5 (Italy)
  Year 2010 Pp. 70-73. Project: Can Framis Museum
• Proyecto Contract . Casa Viva 62
  Year 2010 Pp. 34 - 45 Projects: Can Framis Museum.
• Proyecto Contract 61
  Year 2010 Pp. 34 - 45 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme 259.
  Year 2010 Pp. 16-25. Projects: Can Framis Museum
• SPACE 500 (Korea)
  Year 2009 Pp. 32 - 39 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Summa+ 108 (Argentina)
  Year 2010 Pp. 76-83 Project: Can Framis Museum
• The architectural review 1351 (United Kingdom)
  Year 2009 Pp. 74 - 81 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Via Construcción 78
  Year 2010 Project: Can Framis Museum
• Yapi 3411 (Turkey)
  Year 2010 Pp. 62-66 Project: Can Framis Museum

Awards

2011

• Finalist Barbara Cappochin Prize (Architecture and Detail Category)
• Finalist, Special Mention BEAU XI. Spanish Architecture and Development Biennial 2011




2010

• Finalist Public Space European Prize.
• Finalist LAMP 2010 Award for architectural exterior lighting.
• Opinion prize FAD 2010 Awards for architecture.
• Finalist FAD 2010 Awards for architecture.




2009

• First prize Premio Nacional de Patrimoni Cultural.
• First prize Premio Ciutat de Barcelona 2009.
• Consolation Premio Bonaplata 2009.
• Runner-up Premio de Arquitectura Española 2009.
• Finalist Premios Catalunya Construcció 2009.