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Visionary architecture - R. Bofill

"I want to achieve the impossible. Bofill

 

He was one of the world's most renowned contemporary architects. At the age of 82, Ricardo Bofill has just passed away. This is an opportunity to pay tribute to the Barcelonan born in 1939, considered one of the world's greatest architects.
leaders of post-modern architecture.

Ricardo Bofill's revolutionary visions revolutionized 20th-century architecture. From utopian, futuristic social housing projects to high-tech modernism with its emphasis on glass and steel, and post-modern classicism, the architect's resolute approach has always been ambitious.
Bofill's studio, the Taller de Arquitectura, has been a bubbling incubator of creative rebellion for over five decades. Today, Bofill's buildings such as Walden 7, Kafka's Castle and La Muralla Roja are an integral part of popular culture, and his innovative ideas about communal spaces and alternative lifestyles are once again coming to the fore.

Tribute in 3 exceptional buildings:

- Xanadù

This stunning building, whose name refers to the residence of Charles Foster Kane (the eponymous Citizen Kane in Orson Welles' film), was built by Ricardo Bofill's studio on the Peñón de Ifach (a rocky peak overlooking the town of Calp) in 1971.

This complex of 18 private apartments on the seafront, just a few meters from the Muralla Roja, is characterized by its lichen-green color, its projecting geometric f orms and the shape of its windows, sometimes arched, sometimes circular.The building is characterized by its lichen-green color, its projecting geometric forms and the shape of its windows, sometimes arched, sometimes circular. While the irregularity of the building gives it a fundamentally modern appearance, its terracotta-coloured roofs are reminiscent of the Spanish countryside dwellings that appear not far away in the landscape.

 

- La muralla roja (Calp, Alicante)

Set on a 330-metre-high mountain, Muralla Roja is a complex of 50 apartments painted in pink, ochre, sky blue and indigo. painted in pink, ochre, sky blue and indigo, contrasting with the surrounding Costa Blanca landscape.
The project, completed in 1973, was inspired by Bofill's deep interest in Mediterranean architecture, and in particular Moorish architecture. Indeed, the main cities of North Africa are endowed with casbahs, urban ensembles composed of defensive walls on the outside and narrow streets on the inside.
In reference to this style, Bofill surrounds his buildings with ramparts and is inspired by the sinuous appearance of the alleyways, which separate the buildings from each other.
stacked and semi-detached dwellings.
You can live the Bofill experience by renting an apartment in the Muralla Roja complex.

 

- Taller de Architectura

Eucalyptus, palms, olive trees, mimosas... At the heart of this idyllic landscape nestles LaFábrica, a former cement factory on the outskirts of Barcelona. This curious concrete building, with its round arches and cylindrical forms, is probably Bofill's most personal project.

In 1973, he set up the Taller de Architectura studio here. Taller de Architectura, bringing together architects, economists, critics and poets to assist him in his work. However, this paradisiacal setting was not always so: Ricardo Bofill's effort to breathe new life into this derelict Catalan industrial ruin of the 1920s, while preserving its architectural structure, was quite a challenge.

Today, it houses not only Ricardo Bofill's studio, but also a private residence and exhibition spaces. 

 

 

Ricardo Bofill and I share the same values:
- Bofill is an avant-gardist whose revolutionary visions have turned architectural codes upside down.
Neko Neko overturns the traditional codes of leather goods to create a new vision and culture around fashion.
- Her studio has proved to be a bubbling incubator of creative rebellion. Neko Neko is a multidisciplinary group of people who spread art and culture through fashion.
Like Bofill, we believe in creativity and its power to shape a better world!

Credits: Numero magazine / Ricardo Bofill - visions d'architecture - editions Epa
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