Palafolls Library Building : Architecture Information

2007 Enric Miralles / Benedetta Tagliabue EMBT PUBLIC LIBRARY IN PALAFOLLS, BARCELONA, SPAIN 1997-2007 Photographer: Alex Gaultier Architects: Miralles Tagliabue – EMBT Promotor: Town Hall of Palafolls CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, February 1999 Principals-in-charge: Josep Ustrell, Makoto Fukuda. Collaborators: Tomoko Sakamoto, Sania Belli, Koichi Tono, Markus Lechelt, Jan Maurits Locke, Juan Carlos Mejía del Valle, Adrien Versuere, Richard Breit, FlorenciaVetcher, Jad Salhab, Nils Becker, Ezequiel Cattaneo, Manuela Schubert, Marco Orozco, Josep Mias, Daniele Romanelli, Catalina Montaña, Ornella Lazzari. Natalia Leone. BASIC PROJECT: November 1998 Project Team: Makoto Fukuda, Hirotaka Koizumi Collaborators: Guillame Faraut, Angel Gaspar Casado. COMPETITION: First Prize, August 1997 Collaborators in the competition: Elena Rocchi. Michael Eichorn, Niels Martin Larsen, Nicolai Lund Overgaard, Isabel Sambeth, Ana Maria Romero, Germán Rojas, Carlos Alberto Ruiz, Alfonso Lopez, Marc de Rooij. Engineering: STATIC, Gerardo Gonzalez, Barcelona, Nilo Lletjós (IOC). Services: PGI, Instalaciones Arquitectónicas Site Area: 1700m2 Building area: 714m2 Palafolls Library Barcelona - architects: Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue Some books and a dream... The building is a construction Any in a garden... It doesn’t hold any memories Of the institutional character of libraries ....They are some walls which may have been in this place We have tried in different ways To give the library an apearance of a labirint. A series of rooms and gardens put together in a nonliear way. The building is an experiment, that shows every part of the development of the project... It’s continuing changes and variations, As well as the authority of accepting the final result... The sportshall of Isozaki is our naighbour. And Palafolls, directed by the major Valentí Agustí, is building a city where he asks every architect to Construct according to our dreams. Enric Miralles