Context

Catalonia participated in the 14 Mostra Internazionale de Architettura - Biennale di Venezia exhibiting the work of 16 Catalan architects that share a common attitude. This attitude is d on an intensive dialogue between new and pre-existing features, physical or otherwise, thus allowing for a project including new and existing materials, in the same way as cuttings can be grafted onto a tree.

The starting point of “Grafting Architecture” is the restoration of Casa Bofarull (1913-1933), one of the key works of Josep Maria Jujol (1879-1949), where the architect inserts a new into one which already exists. This enables a fusion of sorts, in which different periods and different ways of living stratify and overlap. It therefore becomes ultimately impossible to separate the parts from the whole.

Solution

The result of our four basic principles is a series of interventions and elements, themselves grafted, distributed around the city, some indicating the way to the pavilion and others as interventions on the pavilion.