Einleitung Discoteca Gran Velvet                     Quelle:Homepage Alfredo Arribas This project is a descendent of the earlier Velvet bar of 1987 located in the centre of Barcelona. Nevertheless, Gran Velvet has very little to do with its progenitor, with regard neither to its size nor to anything else, except for the sly allusions to symbols. Located near one of the peripheral highways east of the city, Gran Velvet is a multi-use space mainly conceived as a discoteque, but which can easily host a live concert or a business conference without major internal restructuring. Gran Velvet comes more and more clearly to resemble a machine, a mechanism that links different uses ans spatial situations. The interior space is unified through a great eliptical hole which, by means of three staircases and a ramp, connects the intermediate access level with the dance floor and stage below, while the perimeter is delimited by a strip of service areas and long bars. A 24-meter glazed tower projecting over the inclined plane of the roof externaly identifies the club from miles away, and accommodates all types of lighting effects over the stage - a mobile platform which can move 4 metres vertically and is prepared to be turned into a swimming pool. Meanwhile, the heart of the original Velvet, literally reproduced and sealed in the lower glass cylinder, is curious witness to its own incredible transformation. Entwurf Details Bauschild Discoteca Gran Velvet Adresse Poligono Monzigalą, sector J.C., block IV, Badalona Baujahr 1990 - 1994 Architekt A.Arribas Cabrejas, M. Morte Morales Literatur

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