Conference Hall at Ave Maria, Barcelona

Second version. Model and plans.

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After the previous presentation (http://raichdelrio.blogspot.com/2009/01/conference-hall-at-ave-maria-barcelona.html), we got asked to rethink the project so it could be both a conference hall and a meeting room.

We kept the main ideas: the orientation, the fact of having an "office" space at the entrance, the wall that unified the space... but incorporing the new input: we made a system of telescopic steps than places them in a closet, and made the office a little bit smaller to place the chairs and tables when not being used.

The meeting room holds 30 people with tables and chairs and the conference hall holds 100 people seated.

The telescopic steps were the only option to give visibility to the people sitting in the back and at the sime time allowing the room to convert in a meeting room.

The room as a conference hall

The room as meeting room.

As we said, the main ideas are still there: a continuous wood skin embracing the space, the orientation, the office space...

But the telescopic steps offer the possibility of transforing the space into several possibilities.


Sections showing the different spatial configurations.

The storage space made us think in more detail the office space.

Whereas the chairs were standard chairs, we thought about a table that could be stored easily and despite it could still be a representation table.

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Conference Hall at "Ave Maria", Barcelona

Model and plans.
More information at http://www.raichdelrio.com/

A small conference hall for 85 people (related: http://raichdelrio.blogspot.com/2009/01/access-hall-of-ave-maria-barcelona.html)

The proposal comes from cleaning the actual conference hall, leaving it clear, and placing a big "furniture" that creates the seats & the speacker zones, creating a wall that embraces both.

View of the hall & the furniture.

This wall has different widths and distances from the room creating space for storage, just being a wall, creating a small changing room, solving the relation between the floor and the windows... making by this a spiral that goes troughall the sala.


At the rear it creates a small "office" room, wich serves also as a small acreditation space.

Lateral view, showing the lateral stairs that allow all the people to have two ways to enter (one from the central corridor and another from the lateral stairs).


Project inserted.

The first seats gently turn to look at the speakers.

The intervention takes it's high from the lateral doors and has a precise control of where and when touching and not touching the original sala.

It is constructed in wood, as a light construction than can be constructed fast and clean, without disturbing the normal function of the building.

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