Barcelona, Spain
Vaillo + Irigaray and BAAS Arquitectura have together won the restricted competition to build a higher conservatory of music and dance in Castellón de la Plana. The ‘campus’ embraces a large open inner space. This garden is intended as a place for in
Wrapped in ceramic brick slats and lattices adapted to the different requirements inside, this day center belongs to a network of municipal health facilities that provide long-term treatments, sparing locals the need to commute to the capital. Organi
Located at Carrer de Pallars 180, in Barcelona’s Poblenou neighborhood, the project sought to give the block a sense of continuity and engage with preexisting elements. A work of BAAS, a Catalan firm led by Jordi Badía, the office building presents a
The project is based on a reflection on the excessive technification and dehumanization of health centers and, as a consequence, the desire to qualify the interior space, endowing it with adequate architectural conditions based on the section, natura
To meet the most convenient size standards for research labs, the project features two structures – one of concrete and another of steel – which offer views of the central atrium. A wrap-around terrace connects the workspaces with the outdoors while
The project undertakes the recovery and conversion of an industrial building from 1920 into a museum, highlighting its special configuration in three sheds and its interior textures, and adding layers that adapt it to a new use. The warehouse was goi
Taking advantage of a preexisting construction in disuse which was supposed to be demolished, the project creates a volume and clads it with an abstract lattice of local ceramic blocks.
A production engine of Barcelona, Poble Nou consisted of on the whole unremarkable industrial precincts. The exceptions marked out for preservation give a wrong idea of how the place was. Buildings were mostly precarious, of no other interest than th
In 2020, six winners were awarded in five categories: Sharing Public Spaces (University of Silesia, Faculty of Radio and Television, by BAAS Arquitectura), Feeling at Home (Can Jaime I nIsabelle, by TEdA arquitectes), Living Together..
Wherever it is that things go well for you, that’s your country. Building outside Spain has for Spanish architects been both a challenge and a recognition traditionally within the reach of few prestigious names, such as Rafael Moneo, Santiago Calatra
The Barcelona practice of Jordi Badia (BAAS), in collaboration with the local firms Grupa 5 Architekci and Maleccy Biuro Projectowe, recently completed the new Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in the Polish town of Katowic
Surgida de sucesivas oleadas migratorias, Badalona es hoy la tercera ciudad de Cataluña, pero sigue presentando problemas estructurales, combatidos en los últimos años con intervenciones de acupuntura urbana. La construcción en el populoso barrio de
En el barrio de Poble Nou conviven los modernos edificios que dibujan el distrito tecnológico del 22@ con antiguos recintos fabriles, como el que ocupa el nuevo Museo Can Framis diseñado por el estudio BAAS Jordi Badia, que alberga la colección de ar