Peris+Toral Arquitectes designed the information point in Glorias square, Barcelona as a scaffolding system for a temporary facility.

Jose Manuel Toral, co-founder of Peris+Toral Arquitectes, will be among the speakers of “Forms of Living & Sustainability through transformation” panel at this year’s ΕΣΩ conference that will take place on June 15th 2022 at Onassis Stegi. 

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-text by the architects

In response to both the temporality of the facility and the context where is located, Peris+Toral stands up for a detachable and reusable construction that minimizes the trace on the territory: a scaffolding system as structure and formal solution of the project. 

This temporary facility built a year ago by the Catalan practice Peris+Toral, is part of the provisional urbanization of the Glòries Square in Barcelona.

With this project, the studio reasserts a new way of working and enhances its search for new solutions and constructive processes.

The facility is thought to be an information point, an exhibition area about the proposed project of the square and rental point of electric bicycles. Is located in a crossroads of pedestrian circulations; which crosses the square towards the sea-mountain and another which transversely connects the two nearby facilities: nursery oaks and the new pergola. In its temporary condition, the construction is subtly integrated into the transformational environment of Glòries Square.

Its linear shape, materials and its structural system highlight both their ephemeral character and the idea of permeability.

Along these lines, scaffolding acts as a support of the three envelopes necessary to provide habitability to the construction: an impermeable and translucent polycarbonate skin, a shade mesh and a metal mesh as a protection. The areas which host the internal program and services are solved by two structural prefabricated modules of site hut, whereas wood on the pavement and on the transverse thresholds provide warmer areas in the facility. 

Facts & Credits 
Project title  Information point in Glorias square
Typology  Pavilion, Temporary Architecture
Location  Glorias square, Barcelona, Spain
Status  Completed
Date  2015
Area  300 sq.m.
Architecture  Peris+Toral Arquitectes
Photography  José Hevia 


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