{"id":38515,"date":"2017-03-06T19:20:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T18:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/co-working-22-innovation-district-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T19:25:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T18:25:16","slug":"co-working-22-innovation-district-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/co-working-22-innovation-district-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-working – 22@ Innovation District Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

APPAREIL has converted a Barcelona warehouse into co-working office and maker space, on the top floor of a building in Poblenou, the city\u2019s former industrial quarter. Currently part of the 22@Barcelona \u2013 Innovation District\u2019s renewal plan, approved in 2000, the area is evolving into a dynamic, vibrant urban district, brimming with knowledge-intensive activities, from both the professional and academic sectors. The project serves as the studio’s new permanent base, but it is also rented out for both long-term use and one-off events to urban planners, city data analysers, digital makers, and as academic research studios for the IAAC and the AA Visiting School.<\/p>\n

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The refurbishment of this typical warehouse space provides a simple open working space for a group of independent professionals from the architecture world and neighbouring disciplines. It has been designed to propel them in developing their work in a transparent manner, sharing ideas and stimulating potential collaborations. Besides floating tables, the volume remains deliberately hollow, and all functionalities are pushed to two intricate milled-timber multifunctional walls, which house all necessary equipment and can accommodate temporary local working solutions.<\/p>\n

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All furniture can be integrated into the walls to create a polyvalent space to host cultural activities. Within the residual rectangular open space, the distribution evolves according to activities that change on a daily basis, depending on the people and projects that are present at any given time. A simple, functional kitchen and bathroom are located on the periphery, as well as a winter garden that faces the sea.<\/p>\n

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Designed and constructed on site, the refurbishment is a live test for professional interactions in this multi-disciplinary melting pot of a district. It embraces the concentrations of makers, designers, architects, entrepreneurs and various crafts, both those which are manually operated and those which it equips with numerically controlled production methods: a swarming creative hub within a hub.<\/p>\n