Kako napraviti ništa? S tim se pitanjem suočio arhitekt Josep Lluís Mateo projektirajući Kongresni centar Barcelona Forum. Kad se pokazalo da treba oblikovati golem program kojem nedostaje bitni smisao i konkretnost, Josep Lluís Mateo odgovorio je šupljinama. Napravio je zgradu koja okuplja te prazne prostore, od ogromnih do gotovo intimnih, u suvislu i profinjenu strukturu. Time se dobiva kompleks velikih prostorija koji nije toliko objekt koliko urbani kolaž, omotač za mješavinu ničega, koja se istodobno uklapa u život Barcelone i pretvara u divovski šator u kojem će se urbani nomadi nastanjeni u toj strukturi osjećati kao kod kuće.
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How do you make nothing? This is the question the architect Josep Lluís Mateo faced in designing the Barcelona Forum Convention Center. Faced with the prospect of giving form to an in essence meaningless and elusive program on a vast scale, Josep Lluís Mateo has answered with voids. He has made a building that composes empty spaces ranging in scale from the immense to the almost intimate into a coherent and urbane structure. The resulting complex of large rooms is not so much an object as an urban collage clothing this amalgamation of nothing, integrating it both into the life of the city of Barcelona and making it into a giant tent in which the urban nomads who will inhabit this structure will feel at home.
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