Torres-Guasch Hardware 2

José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects (2)
Involved architects (2)
José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects
Elías Torres Tur
José Antonio Martínez Lapeña
Involved architects
Salvador Roig Planells
Xavier Pallejá Torrecilla

The geometry of the shop windows transforms the trapezoidal interior of the premises into a rectangle. Its position organises a covered outdoor space, while flanking and leading to the entrance of the tent. The exterior metal doors, when closed, appear, due to the sloping roof, as a copper-coloured screen. When opened, they break down into planes of bright colours that frame the shop windows in an unsettling way.

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Door plan and elevations - José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects

All the furniture behind the metal plates and glass is made of wood for the display of the objects, which are placed on shelves, fragments of ziggurat. The doors painted with fictitious copper plates, the keel-shaped ceiling and the tools embedded in the pavement are meant to evoke something of the world of ships.

The hardware store is located in front of the old shipyards where the Torres 'Manyà' family had built schooners, paileboats and other vessels for four generations.

Shop window plan and elevations - José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects

General information

Torres-Guasch Hardware 2

YEAR

1985

Status

Built

Option to visit

Free visit

Address

Ave. de Santa Eulària des Riu, 27

07800 Eivissa - Illes Balears

Latitude: 38.913097859

Longitude: 1.4346548943

Classification

Building materials

Steel

Built area

1 - 500 m²

Involved architects

Elías Torres Tur

José Antonio Martínez Lapeña

Salvador Roig Planells

Xavier Pallejá Torrecilla

Collaborators

Construcciones Rafal y Cardonet (Building company)

Lluís Comellas (Technical architect)

Involved architectural firms

José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects

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José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects

Website links

Ferretería Torres-Guasch 2 - José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects

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