Tubo Bar Barcelona
Client
Private
Location
Barcelona, Spain
Year
1992
Awards
2000 4th Década Prize, O. Tusquets Foundation – Selected
1993 Fad Awards, Interiors – Finalist
Overview
The bar already existed. The work has consisted of rethinking the bar after its necessary soundproofing. To acoustically insulate the room, a totally free-standing concrete box is chosen, which extends the entire length of the premises. The new skin is structurally independent and the fact of restoring the foundation is used to reconsider the new section: the pavement, the height is increased in the center, and in this way the entire interior of the premises is expanded. Everything is built from the new box: some mezzanines are suspended, some skylights are opened, the support of the lamps is anchored and it ends up molding the platforms of the bars. The bar is full. This idea accompanies the entire project: the façade is the showcase for the bar’s activity, the entrance itself places you inside and the slope takes you inside. But among the public there are only the bars: the “places” are built from the roof. The lamp is the element that makes it possible to define these areas and link them together as a succession of places. The mezzanines make the occupation of the roof real by placing them like balconies of people over the heads of the people. The lamp at the entrance begins the narrative. It picks up the atmosphere of a quieter bar that is cornered between the window-sideboard and a large display of bottles. Above the heads, a metallic tube will be the basic infrastructure of the sound and light apparatus. It will support a structure of wooden frames covered in sheet metal that will first appear towards the façade and then receive those who, sliding down the other side of the bottle rack, appear inside. This hall works with the idea of transit. A second lamp will wrap around the DJ’s mezzanine and, together with a third that acts as a railing for the public mezzanine, will be framed from the top of a dance floor. And it will be from the top of the last mezzanine from where the public will watch the party: the DJ working, people dancing, the pool players, the screen and just below, how the drinks are being served. The staircase under the skylights. The last illuminated lamp is made of glass and rests on the pavement. It’s the toilets. Above, occupying the entire section of the premises, a continuous broadcast of video images denies the end of the movement that has taken place along the Tubo Bar, between the street and the screen.
The bar already existed. The work has consisted of rethinking the bar after its necessary soundproofing. To acoustically insulate the room, a totally free-standing concrete box is chosen, which extends the entire length of the premises. The new skin is structurally independent and the fact of restoring the foundation is used to reconsider the new section: the pavement, the height is increased in the center, and in this way the entire interior of the premises is expanded. Everything is built from the new box: some mezzanines are suspended, some skylights are opened, the support of the lamps is anchored and it ends up molding the platforms of the bars. The bar is full. This idea accompanies the entire project: the façade is the showcase for the bar’s activity, the entrance itself places you inside and the slope takes you inside. But among the public there are only the bars: the “places” are built from the roof. The lamp is the element that makes it possible to define these areas and link them together as a succession of places. The mezzanines make the occupation of the roof real by placing them like balconies of people over the heads of the people. The lamp at the entrance begins the narrative. It picks up the atmosphere of a quieter bar that is cornered between the window-sideboard and a large display of bottles. Above the heads, a metallic tube will be the basic infrastructure of the sound and light apparatus. It will support a structure of wooden frames covered in sheet metal that will first appear towards the façade and then receive those who, sliding down the other side of the bottle rack, appear inside. This hall works with the idea of transit. A second lamp will wrap around the DJ’s mezzanine and, together with a third that acts as a railing for the public mezzanine, will be framed from the top of a dance floor. And it will be from the top of the last mezzanine from where the public will watch the party: the DJ working, people dancing, the pool players, the screen and just below, how the drinks are being served. The staircase under the skylights. The last illuminated lamp is made of glass and rests on the pavement. It’s the toilets. Above, occupying the entire section of the premises, a continuous broadcast of video images denies the end of the movement that has taken place along the Tubo Bar, between the street and the screen.
The bar already existed. The work has consisted of rethinking the bar after its necessary soundproofing. To acoustically insulate the room, a totally free-standing concrete box is chosen, which extends the entire length of the premises. The new skin is structurally independent and the fact of restoring the foundation is used to reconsider the new section: the pavement, the height is increased in the center, and in this way the entire interior of the premises is expanded. Everything is built from the new box: some mezzanines are suspended, some skylights are opened, the support of the lamps is anchored and it ends up molding the platforms of the bars. The bar is full. This idea accompanies the entire project: the façade is the showcase for the bar’s activity, the entrance itself places you inside and the slope takes you inside. But among the public there are only the bars: the “places” are built from the roof. The lamp is the element that makes it possible to define these areas and link them together as a succession of places. The mezzanines make the occupation of the roof real by placing them like balconies of people over the heads of the people. The lamp at the entrance begins the narrative. It picks up the atmosphere of a quieter bar that is cornered between the window-sideboard and a large display of bottles. Above the heads, a metallic tube will be the basic infrastructure of the sound and light apparatus. It will support a structure of wooden frames covered in sheet metal that will first appear towards the façade and then receive those who, sliding down the other side of the bottle rack, appear inside. This hall works with the idea of transit. A second lamp will wrap around the DJ’s mezzanine and, together with a third that acts as a railing for the public mezzanine, will be framed from the top of a dance floor. And it will be from the top of the last mezzanine from where the public will watch the party: the DJ working, people dancing, the pool players, the screen and just below, how the drinks are being served. The staircase under the skylights. The last illuminated lamp is made of glass and rests on the pavement. It’s the toilets. Above, occupying the entire section of the premises, a continuous broadcast of video images denies the end of the movement that has taken place along the Tubo Bar, between the street and the screen.