CAM FRAMIS Museum / Jordi Badia

oject: CAN FRAMIS Museum at 22@

Location: Can Framis, 22@ District, Poble Nou, Barcelona, Spain
Architect: Jordi Badia
Project leader: Jordi Framis
Team: Daniel Guerra, Marta Vitório, Mercè Mundet, Miguel Borrell, Moisés
Garcia
Collaborators
Structure: BOMA, Josep Ramón Solé
Installations: PGI engineering
Measuring and budget: FCA Forteza Carbonell Associats
Executive direction: GPO-Meritxell Bosch
Landscape: Martí Franch
Project Management: LAYETANA
Contractor: Construcciones San José
Client: Fundació Vila Casas. Layetana
Project: 2007
Construction: 2008
Area: 5.468 m2
Photography: FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
 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.