{"id":9590,"date":"2015-06-17T13:13:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/moritz-brewery-2\/"},"modified":"2015-06-17T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:17:46","slug":"moritz-brewery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/moritz-brewery\/","title":{"rendered":"Moritz Brewery"},"content":{"rendered":"

photo: Roland Halbe<\/p>\n

The three buildings in\u00a0La Ronda Sant Antoni are\u00a0a magnificent testimony\u00a0to the industrial Barcelona\u00a0of the nineteenth century.\u00a0They house the story of Moritz beer and of the people who worked there and who lived there.\u00a0But the buildings no longer met the demands of beer production on a large industrial scale.\u00a0They needed to be made\u00a0to make sense again. We needed to reinvent uses and\u00a0to reimagine a life appropriate to the Barcelona of the twenty-first century.
\nOn this historic site, Moritz has opened a high quality micro-brewery that makes the brand\u2019s beers for buying and drinking directly on the spot.\u00a0There are restaurants, a bar, a wine seller, a boutique and a specialised bakery. A multimedia room and a museum complete the programming of the spaces\u00a0to accommodate every kind\u00a0of clientele, day and night.
\nThe project reveals the beauty of the industrial architecture. It uncovers the brickwork, the steel and the cork-lined walls. It shows the concrete vats, the old machinery and the goods lift.\u00a0We reveal the surviving traces of floors made of heavy flagstones and colourful patterned tiles.<\/p>\n

The architecture of the revisited site accentuates contrast and the overlay of the different eras.\u00a0The old Moritz advertising posters have been reinterpreted and now illuminate the brewery.\u00a0Black and white images\u00a0are screened over the walls, evoking the place\u2019s history.\u00a0LED light panels bathe the bar and restaurant in pale gold, gold and garnet-coloured light.\u00a0The lighting reminds us of beer and creamy heads foaming in the glass, as well as wine.\u00a0The new beer vats are made of stainless steel.\u00a0The fa\u00e7ades and walls are composed of large glass panels and mirrors.\u00a0Transparent resins give the\u00a0old floors back their sheen.\u00a0State-of-the-art screens cover the walls of the boutique.\u00a0The images and the different-coloured lights form an immaterial layer, superimposed over the industrial architecture.\u00a0The bars and tables are made of tin and their patina sharpens our awareness\u00a0of time.\u00a0And the cement surfaces\u00a0are overrun with vegetation from the high living green wall. La Antigua F\u00e0brica Moritz has once again become a place that bears witness to the vitality\u00a0of Barcelona.<\/p>\n