The site:        Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 563, Barcelona.

 

Context:          july 2015 final year project -  in progress

                        Dissertation topic - the conservation and re-use of industrial heritage

Challenge:     Can Batlló textile factory conversion - Textile Industry Museum

Proposal:       The project begins with a theoretical study of the industrial heritage as an economical and cultural resource for the city. A complete analysis of the similar projects already put in place in Barcelona defines the limits and challenges for a new intervention. The aim is to determine how to protect and to manage change while ensuring  that historic value is sustained.

                        The re-use of Can Batlló begins with recovering the way in which the textile industry used to work and re-establishing the strong connection between the factory and the residencial neighbourhood created around it. The new functions and public spaces created will revitalise the area by bringing toghether the local community and the tourists.