Bodegas Rosàs

Spanish studio Flexoarquitectura renovated a wine business in Rubí, in which certain preserved elements from the past were updated to coexist with new layers.

Flexoarquitectura, Bodegas Rosàs, Rubí, Spain, 2016
Bodegas Rosàs is a four generation family business dedicated to the wine commercialization, which occupies a 400 mq complex in the center of Rubí. Built in 1850, it has undergone different transformations due to production expansions and changes in logistics over time. The house of the first owner, with two floors and a double width, was linked to the store and shop through a courtyard that made it independent of the commercial activity. Over the years, the house was gradually occupied by storage spaces on the first floor and offices on the ground floor, until the disappearance of the original dwelling.

After demolishing the suspended ceiling of the old dwelling, a gabled roof with a considerable free height appeared, made by circular wooden beams, flat wooden crossbeams and ceramic tiles. The main strategy, therefore, was the recovery of what was considered essential: to perceive the breadth of the place and to enhance its character through the recovery of its materials. The renovation of traditional materials was not a nostalgic or romantic action, but an unprejudiced and inclusive attitude. In this sense, certain layers from the past were updated to coexist with new layers, avoiding the relation by contrast (the new versus the old) or integrative (the new subjected to the old).
Flexoarquitectura, Bodegas Rosàs, Rubí, Spain, 2016
Flexoarquitectura, Bodegas Rosàs, Rubí, Spain, 2016
The program consists of different independent rooms: lobby, waiting, meetings, work, storage and cleaning. Some of them – warehouse, waiting and toilet – have been compacted in a strip located in the lower-height end of the space, taking advantage of its false ceiling for the passing of installations and relating the other three – lobby, meetings and work – with light elements formed by plywood pine boards and strips that don’t compromise the autonomy of the original roof structure. Moreover, the linoleum flooring, the wall finishings and some furnitures are painted in clear colors, in order to give greater visibility to the original structure.
Flexoarquitectura, Bodegas Rosàs, Rubí, Spain, 2016
Flexoarquitectura, Bodegas Rosàs, Rubí, Spain, 2016

Bodegas Rosàs, Rubí, Spain
Program: office
Architect: Flexoarquitectura – Aixa del Rey, Tomeu Ramis, Barbara Vich
Area: 90 sqm
Completion: 2016

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