The new building is dedicated to a single activity: creative, abstract and solitary, as the painter explained to us. This inclined us to solve the volume in a compact way with a uniform exterior – insulating layers and clear stucco in expressive continuity of walls and roof – to establish relationships of a familiar nature, without stridency with the natural environment. Within the green, the object becomes a screen on which the shadows of the trees are projected in continuous variation. The interior is a fluid and multiple concrete cavity, a direct consequence of the monolithic structural concept of the construction and the search for severe and bare spaces at the service of the artistic work carried out there.
On the sloping site, with an abundance of trees, on the northern side of Tibidabo and adjacent to the house where the painter lives, the small building is composed of a painting studio, the largest and empty one possible on the upper floor and on the lower floor, the result of the meeting of the prismatic volume with the terrain, a workshop for sculpture and a warehouse.
The volume of 12m x 13.5m and two floors has a total surface of 335m2.
The study is a space without views and receives light from the roof with a large skylight located at the meeting of the four inclined planes, which irregularly define the space from the horizontal line crowning the walls of the 5m periphery of height. The skylight has been moved depending on the south orientation and the position in which the painter is usually placed to work. A staircase, placed discreetly on one side, so as not to break the unity of the study, leads to the lower floor in which the rear space closest to the soil retaining wall is used as a construction store and the area in front of the sculpture workshop. This opens completely from the front, with a large torn fissure of landscaped proportions, towards an outdoor work terrace and views towards the site's own greenery.
The construction system used for this project was conceived in a compact way as required by the final image of it, both interior and exterior.
