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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. ESPAI BARONDA in Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain by Alonso y BalaguerMay 13th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Alonso y Balaguer Located in Parc dels Torrents, La Baronda complex is one of the most important town planning actions in the city of Esplugues, reuniting and combining in the same public space concepts such as exhibition and meetings, as well as the goal of becoming, without a doubt, a new reference in integral design centres.  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer
 Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer All the services in La Baronda will be shared by all the companies of the groups Alonso & Balaguer and TAU-ICESA, as well as the Town Hall itself, in order to obtain ‘the permanence in the Esplugues citizens’ retina of that image of the old days, of the factory at full steam, going deep in the emotional archaeology” according to the words of Luis Alonso and Francesc Sibina, directors of both companies and promoters of this projected transformation.  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer La Baronda wants to become a container of activities and spaces, in favour of the mixture of uses, proposing a multi-discipline space in which there will be lodged the work of the ceramist Angelina Aló (whose pieces of art –some of them, given by her daughter to the Town Hall- will be exhibited in the ‘museum hall’ of the future design centre) and several pieces displayed in the Biennial of Ceramics, as well as all kind of formation classrooms with audio/video equipment, to carry out video-conferences.  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer There will also be spaces for companies related to the world of design, engineering and all its complements, as well as a restaurant and the locker rooms for the outdoor swimming-pool and the sports centre tracks that will surround the building.  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer In order to obtain such reform in Parc dels Torrents and to assure the viability of the proposed facilities –for sports and leisure, as well as cultural and economic functions-, the construction of a pedestrian walk-way with an elevator is projected, breaking the unevenness of the place and connecting the complex with the city centre. This solution reverts to one of the most essential points of the project: solving and considering at any moment the problems of the people with reduced mobility, looking for the use and enjoyment of all the elements that comprise the project, as an important component of city configuration.  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer  Image Courtesy © Alonso y Balaguer
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