8/23/2011

Municipal Archive and History Museum in Sallent (IV – façades and sections)



Master thesis. July, 2008.

06 Sallent_A-B façades_


The main façades are simple. They are cleaned and painted, and on the base of each of them we can see the original stone wall.

The dimensions of the windows and doors are similar to most of the village ones. And most of them are the existing ones, but giving the wall surfaces a new and controlled order.


The interior levels are maintained. They only grow a few centimetres because of the reinforcing of the horizontal structure.


In the museum the volume of the C room, dedicated to the industry of the village, the existing interior of the building is emptied. This is the response to get a more secure structure but also to rediscover the main walls.



We get rid of all the unoriginal elements on the back façade. So the wall is shown as it was on its beginnings.



The top floor opens to the Riereta with a terrace protected from the north winds due to the pent roofs.

8/03/2011

Municipal Archive and History Museum in Sallent (III – floors)


Master thesis. July, 2008.

03 Sallent_Basement and ground floor


The basement, an ancient wine cellar, is renewed to be used as a complement to the museum.
 
There are two spaces. The big one is for conferences, videos and other cultural activities. The small one is for kids, with small and mobile furniture.

The ground floor is where the users can enter into the different spaces. Through Clos Street, n.5, we can go up to the archive. Through n.9, we can visit the Riereta Park. And the access to the museum is on
Portalet street, from where the visitors will discover part of the building between interior and exterior, like a labyrinth that will guide them through the history.



On the first floor, the museum is keeps growing and turning around the archive. It is connected with the city wall with a little bridge that is renewed and from where the landscape can be admired.


On the contrary, the archive is closed to protect its documents that are received in this point.


The second floor turns the museum into an open space with a flat roof that is considered part of the exhibitions. From here we can “visit” the surroundings due to some explanations on the panels installed on the roof.

Meanwhile, in the archive there is space for saving the documents and for the offices.


On the third floor the archive opens completely his walls to the sights, according to the pent roofs, so the users can relax his eyes. There’s also a flat roof working as an open rest room.

The pent roofs permit the building to adapt to the existing constructions around it.