FUB3 Building, in Manresa
The FUB3 University Complex is located within the Old Slaughterhouse of Manresa, a modernist enclosure built in 1906 from the project of the architect Ignasi Oms i Ponsa, and which is currently cataloged with the BCIL -Cultural Asset of Local Interest- within the catalog of Catalan Cultural Heritage.
The complex is part of the University Campus of the Bages University Foundation (FUB) in Manresa, and houses the theoretical and practical classroom of the Physiotherapy studies. The project includes the rehabilitation of 3 of the 4 warehouses of the historic slaughterhouse, in addition to the construction of a new volume of plant and the urbanization of the central space. The program consists of a total of eleven classrooms, two meeting rooms, a gym with capacity for a hundred people, changing rooms and a space for offices and work areas for teachers.
The project works to recover this historical complex maintaining the value of pre-existence and preserving its industrial character of the early twentieth century, distinguished by brick architecture with multiple ornaments in its different facades.
Promoter:Fundació Universitària del Bages
Surface:1.790,70 m2
Pressupost pem:1.851.312,00
Ended:15/03/2019
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An intervention strategy is drawn up to recover and increase the potential of the warehouses: first, the main nave is divided vertically into three levels, from a mixed substructure of steel pillars and concrete slabs, and, secondly, the different warehouses are joined horizontally from an essentially metallic porch.
The access to the main nave runs from a triple height that allows to identify from the inside the singular cutting of the central part of the historical facade. The staircase, confined to an irregular polyhedron, partially occupies the space generated by the triple height, providing the central space with uniqueness and linking the functionality of the rehabilitation with the original charm of the historic building.
Another characteristic element of the interior aesthetic of the slaughterhouse is its ceramic plinth, formed by hydraulic pieces of green and orange color, which contrast by their brightness and vivacity with brick masonry. The original ceramic pieces have been restored by new pieces made exclusively by Cumella ceramics to recreate the original colors of the modernist building.
The new partitions are distinguished in their materiality from the original wall structure, and enhance the visual continuity of it from controlled glazed openings. Both the structure and the vertical partitions materialize in smooth and neutral finishes, which do not compete visually with the brick ornaments on the façade. On the other hand, the brutality of the exposed concrete of the new slabs house with the patina of the existing structure.
The urbanization of the central space is conditioned to the situation of the existing trees, to which are added new side planters and a central piece that formally replicates the insignia of the FUB.
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