Aerojet Express. Travel agency

Studio PER (2)
Studio PER
Lluís Clotet i Ballús
Oscar Tusquets Blanca

Those ground floors with a dignified façade had previously housed an electrical appliance shop decorated with false columns, beams and plaster arches that hid and organised the structure and installations. A strategy similar to the one applied in Sonor but with a different language.

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Oriol Maspons

The colours white and blue were used to highlight some of these elements and leave others in the background, so that a free-standing, slender pavilion emerged visually and became the protagonist of the intervention. All the rest of the operation was organised so that this election would be understood. Upward floodlights illuminated it as if it were a monument.

Studio PER

The openings in the façade were designed in such a way that nothing would obstruct the view from the street, and for this reason the characteristic signs of these agencies were moved to a screen at the back of the shop. Vertical mirrors were placed to the right and left of the large windows in a radial position to emphasise their centrality, while providing a striking kaleidoscopic and distorted view from the street.

Also from the inside, the movement in the city became disconcerting. Horizontal lights between the mirrors flickered on and off, feigning movement from inside to outside in clear reference to familiar images of spectacles and worlds then far away.

Studio PER

General information

Aerojet Express. Travel agency

YEAR

1971

Status

Desaparecida

Option to visit

Closed to visitors

Address

St. de la Diputació, 258

08007 Barcelona - Barcelona

Latitude: 41.390751246

Longitude: 2.1676309084

Classification

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

FAD 1971

Involved architects

Lluís Clotet i Ballús

Oscar Tusquets Blanca

Involved architectural firms

Studio PER

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MITMA

Website links

Oscar Tusquets Blanca

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Location

41.390751246 2.1676309084 6f92cda2-d6c1-4765-955f-e72cfe71250d Desaparecida
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