Sala Beckett

Architecture Office Flores & Prats Architects

Typology Cultural, Refurbishment, Extension

Size 2923 sqm

Location Barcelona, Spain

Client Institut de Cultura de Barcelona + Fundació Sala Beckett

Status Completed, 2016

The project programme included the rehabilitation of an abandoned building in Poblenou, Barcelona, as the new headquarters for the Sala Beckett/International Drama Centre, to provide exhibition spaces, classrooms, offices, changing rooms, and a restaurant open to the neighbourhood.

The design approach was to preserve the maximum number of original notable decorative and architectural elements. Thus, it was necessary to carry out a thorough survey of floor tiles, wooden windows, door frames, staircases, and plastered features to walls and ceilings. Each element was classified according to its location within the building and cataloged with detailed drawings and photographs.

I collaborated with Flores Prats Architects as an architectural intern in the initial stage of development of project proposals. Together with other three architects, I was involved mainly in surveying the existing decorative elements, the preparation of building models, and a large-scale urban setting drawing, which was initially sketched by hand and later drafted in a vector-graphics format for the final drawing set.