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Homage to Gastronomy: The Institute of Catalan Culinary Arts
“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity” – M.F.K. Fisher
At the civic heart of Barcelona, a free-spirited and cultured city, The Institute of Catalan Culinary Arts is a celebration of Catalan gastronomy and culture. Through notions of food and heritage, the design explores the intimate relationships between food, people and space, and the ever-present dialogue between tradition and contemporary re-interpretation. Responding to local Gothic architecture, the building engages with its historical and present context to re-imagine eating typologies and the Catalan traditional style. Amidst the dense urban fabric of the city, the building stands as a monument, a homage to Catalan heritage and identity.
Re-Interpreting Catalan Gothic: Conceptual Fragment
A study on arching, bifurcation and fenestration principles in Catalan gothic architecture through a hybrid system of concrete and timber.
Material Transitions: Façade Expression
Developing the façade design into a structural expression of a contemporary translation of Catalan gothic architecture.
A New Approach to Eating: The Gastronomy Garden
The gastronomy garden proposes a new and more dynamic approach to eating, where each floor presents a different course and unique gastronomical environment tailored to it.
The Engagement
“I realised very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places…” – José Andrés Puerta
A Rainy Summer’s Night: Post-Prandial Somnolence
Indeed, after a twelve-course meal, what greater comfort than the warmth of your home, to listen to the hypnotic sound of rain and watch the golden lights of night time burst into life. To fall asleep in a state of gastronomical bliss.
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23 June – 8 July 2023
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