Santa Caterina Market, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bEnric Miralles, Benedetta Tagliabue-
The Santa Caterina Market, is one of many symbols of Barcelona's contemporary, avant-garde city and always attentive to the needs of those whose co-existence of functions vivono.Luogo and varied public spaces, the market looks like a large square blanket cut between the houses in which the various elements are arranged in a fairly free, but in spite of what one might be led to think about the type of structure and the tasks that it receives, the most interesting elements of the project is the copertura.Questa is used as a tool for pre-existing relationship with the nineteenth-century building, which, without being deprived of its identity and its historical value, it becomes part integral to a system of stratification and the coexistence of past and present by being incorporated multicolored cover it completely renews the image. The extraordinary and magnetic vivacity and variety of colors of the tiles that cover the tiled roof, it is a tribute to the Catalan culture and work of Gaudi, but above all a symbol of cultural complexity and the functions of the human host, as well as image and driving Renovation of the context that accepts, if first from the windows of surrounding buildings could see a performance degradation, all now face a riot of color and vitality.
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