At first, exactly in 1973, architect Ricardo
Bofill found in Sant Just Desvern, Spain a disused cement factory, an
industrial complex consisting of over 30 silos, huge machine rooms and subterranean
galleries. Then he decided to transform everything into the head office of his
Taller de Arquitectura. It took two years for all remodelling works to achieve
a wished result; a mix of surrealist elements, like pieces of iron hanging in
the air or stairs that climbed up to nowhere, with decadency of an abandoned
factory, partially in ruins. Of all 30 silos at the end of the transformation process
remained 8 in total, which became offices, archives, library, a models
laboratory, a projections room and "The Cathedral", a gigantic space used for
concerts, exhibitions and whole other ranges of cultural functions.
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