TOP FLY International Aviation Academy

Sabadell, Spain
Photo © Jordi Bernadó
Photo © Jon Tugores
Photo © Jordi Bernadó
© Jordi Bernadó
Photo © Jordi Bernadó
Photo © Jon Tugores
Photo © Jordi Bernadó
Photo © Jon Tugores
Photo © Jon Tugores
Architects
Jon Tugores + Architects
Location
Carretera Bellaterra, 08205 Sabadell, Spain
Year
2006
Details

Owners: TOP FLY SA
Location: Sabadell, Barcelona
Program: New International Aviation Academy
Surface: 630 m2

Collaborators
Basic + Executive design: Jaume Campmany [architect]
Studio JT: Belen Torres [architect]
Builders: Juan Antonio Sanchez + Facades Torregrosa
Photography: Jordi Bernadó

Rehabilitation and re-programming of the first hangar built in Catalonia in 1928. It was in a almost abandoned state. We proposed a second skin façade parallel separated by 2 m, with the same height as the original hangar, creating an inter-pace which acts as distributor and celebrates the new look of the building, recognizing the pre-existence without destroying it.

From a more subjective point of view, we wanted to get a new facade, symbol of the aviation of the end of the century that had to be at the same conceptual height of the first building that housed an aircraft almost 80 years ago. The over transparency on the main facade, searches the colours of sky and incorporates them into the facade, while poetically it writes the name in the sky.

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