Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art

Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art

Barcelona, Spain

1987 - 1995

Barcelona is a dream city in Architecture, So many famous designer have build far-reaching significant building. The contemporary has build very amazing gaps and form. I really learn so much ideas, especially design in aisle.

"Contextually responsive in its scale and orientation, this museum plays a key role in restructuring the Gothic district of Barcelona. Together with the Casa de la Caritat cultural center and a new university building to the north of its sculpture court, the museum helps to consolidate this new arts quarter within the broader urban fabric. Entry to the gallery space is through a cylindrical, top-lit gallery/foyer leading to a glazed, triple-height ramp-hall that faces the new Plaça dels Àngels to the south. This hall, together with an intermediate corridor paved in glass block, enables the visitor to access six continuous loft-like spaces on successive levels. A semidetached wing at the eastern end of the block accommodates additional gallery space and the suite of curatorial offices."

The main part of the gallery is lit from above, especially in the attic space where the roof of a building covered with blinds skylight. Some of the light from this source through the glass block floors and an open slot, filtered down to illuminate a lower level. Where natural light enters from the South, which is partially screened by an external blinds, a plurality of separate screen wall, and from the slopes.

Bibliography: Archilovers,MACBA_Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art [2005] , http://www.archilovers.com/projects/43/macba-barcelona-museum-of-contemporary-art.html