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MIXTURE OF STYLES
Historicist elements and
functional design coexist in
the same room.
areas and the kitchen are in the
subspace without natural light,
whilst the larger, more spacious
space is used as a dining room.
The furniture and other artefacts
are distributed along the side
walls of the kitchen and in the
vending machine area, which are
in elongated and narrow spaces,
thus leaving a corridor in the
middle. In the upper part of the
dining room, the tables and chairs
are placed on the sides with a
corridor in the middle, although
the users may adapt the layout of
the furniture according to their
needs. On the terraces, or on the
lower levels, there are banisters
made of stone aggregates with
holes in them, like lace curtains,
in order to allow the light to pass
through and create a sense of in
timacy. The tables and chairs are
distributed along the wall, leaving
room for a side corridor.
looking onto this hall is used
as a staircase, giving continuity out about the choice of fur
to the outside steps. In this niture is the relationship they
establish with existing historical
which can be accessed through elements in the space. In the
dining room, the chairs are
curved outline in the peripheral made of red and black plastic
form. The intention of these de on aluminium legs, of a similar,
This dining room is located
though not identical, design.
in the building that hosts the the dining room, which can be
Museu Nacional d’Art de seen from the public access area. signs, some have wooden sides,
Catalunya, the Palau Nacional In the architecture of
built for the 1929 International the space, elements from the and cylindrical aluminium legs;
Exhibition that is an emblematic historical past and from the others have thinner layers of
building for, among other things, refurbishment of the building melamine and square aluminium
its grandeur.
where the Museu Nacional d’Art legs. The kitchen is built with
The space occupies a de Catalunya is currently located a counter and industrialstyle
surface of 200 m coexist. The renovation was artefacts that would seem more
appropriate in a beat up, every
day restaurant than in a dining
conclusion in 2004.
room of this kind. The toilet is
Upon deciding on the inte
rior design of the dining room,
a determining factor were the lighting consists of modular wall
French windows looking onto the
Oval Hall. The vending machine entire space.
2 View on a
Historicist
Past
Museu Nacional d’Art
de Catalunya
, and is split
into two subspaces by its main
corridor, one of which has glass
dividers and two windows that
let sunlight into the interior of
the building, while the other
space has no natural light. The
dining room is subject to that of
the Oval Hall. The glass façade
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