Architect Ricardo Bofill’s Deserted Cement Factory Home and Studio

Architect Ricardo Bofill’s Deserted Cement Factory Home and Studio


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In 1973 Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill stumbled on a cement factory in Catalonia, Spain, an monumental compound of silos and buildings that included just about two and a half miles of underground tunnels. Bofill made a decision to purchase The Globe War I period structure and its grounds,...


In 1973 Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill stumbled on a cement factory in Catalonia, Spain, an monumental compound of silos and buildings that included just about two and a half miles of underground tunnels. Bofill made a decision to purchase The Globe War I period structure and its grounds, creating modifications to the initial structure in purchase to make an all-inclusive reside/operate house that would unite the Surrealist, Abstract, and Brutalist components located in its industrial type.
Initial design to renovate the sprawling sequence of buildings took a little over a year and a half. Following the dust cleared from the jack hammers and dynamite, Catalan craftsmen worked to include gardens and purpose back again into the abandoned compound. Now the factory retains a cathedral, model workshop, archive rooms, home, and studio, a workspace for Bofill’s agency spread about four flooring in the factory’s silos and connected by a spiral staircase.
Despite about forty yrs in the creating, the complete challenge is continually evolving and is just one that Bofill never ever sees as becoming entirely finished. With ongoing tweaks, Bofill has designed a flawlessly programmed existence, a ritualized way of living that goes versus his earlier nomadic early lifestyle.
“I have the impression of dwelling in a precinct, in a shut universe which guards me from the outside the house and daily lifestyle,” said Bofill on his website. “The Cement Factory is a place of operate par excellence. Daily life goes on right here in a ongoing sequence, with quite very little change concerning operate and leisure.”
You can see far more pictures of the garden-included buildings on Bofill’s website, and see a quick Nowness documentary on his studio and home under. .