Palau Balaguer
Rehabilitation of a baroque Palace in Palma de Mallorca as an exhibition and concert centre, plus the organization of workshops for the arts association “Círculo de Bellas Artes”.
The intervention will define the new circulation through the building to make sure that all the different programmes can coexist together. This circulation will include a new staircase and an elevator that can fit inside one of the vertical courtyards of the palace.
Circulation along the building will be orientated by the entrance of natural light, provided by a series of new skylights. The Palace has grown over 10 centuries; the boundaries between the different periods can be read in its fragmentary geometry. The new light wells are introduced producing some gaps between one period and the other. They will provide natural light to some of the actual inner dark parts of the palace, making clearer the connection between parts of the history of the building.
| Programme: | Rehabilitation of a baroque Palace in Palma de Mallorca as an exhibition and concert centre, plus the organization of workshops for the arts association “Círculo de Bellas Artes”. |
| Promoter: | Palma City Council and Caja Madrid Foundation. |
| Architects: | Flores & Prats Archs, Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats with Francisco Pizà and Ma. José Duch (Duch-Pizà Archs, Mallorca) |
| Archaeological Research: | Arqueotaller, Roser Pérez, Margalida Munar, Magdalena Salas. |
| Historic Research: | Ma. Dolores Ladaria. |
| Material analysis: | Lend Consulting. |
| Structures: | Fernando Purroy. |
| Collaborators: | Caterina Anastasia, Andrea Tisino, Ankur Jain, Els Van Meerbeek, Juan Antonio Membrive, Javier Lecumberri, Eirene Presmanes, Eugenia Troncoso, Oriol Valls, Mar Garrido, Cristian Zanoni, Carlos Bedoya, Guido Fiszson, Ellen Halupczok, Julia Taubinger, Paula Avila, Nicolás Chara, Eugenia Troncoso, Celia Carroll, Jonny Pugh, Israel Hernando, Hernán Barbalace, Benedikte Mikkelsen, Sergi Madrid. |
| Photographs of the model: | Hisao Suzuki. |
| Situation: | 3 Unió Street, Palma de Mallorca |
| Area: | 2.500 m_ |
| Budget: | 2.056.287 € |
| Date of the Project: | 1996, first project concerning only the roofs. 2001-2003, project for the complete renovation of the building. |
| Date of Construction: | April 2009 – under construction. |
