The Royal Mint of the Crown of Aragon in Barcelona "La Seca" - from the Arabic word sekka: "place where money is made" - operated from 1441 to 1849 and was located in several buildings grouped on the same block of houses in the Ribera district of Barcelona.
Remains of the 13th and 14th centuries have been preserved in the complex, although the main structures date from the 17th century, with important alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
When the factory fell into disrepair, the building underwent multiple modifications and was segregated into multiple properties.
The refurbishment of part of these buildings that formed La Seca has been carried out in several phases to accommodate the Espai Escènic Brossa (La Seca-1) on the one hand and the Fundació Brossa on the other (La Seca-2), maintaining the uses differentiated but linked and compatible and that in the last interventions have been joined and connected through the inner spaces and the exteriors to become a single cultural centre in a future.
The fit of these cultural facilities in the existing historical buildings has been considered maintaining the typology, the structures and the main constructive elements and respecting the interventions that it has undergone over time, without prioritising any of them, and completing them with the construction of new specific elements such as a new staircase, a bridge body or the creation of a new inner courtyard, so that the end result of the sum of history and contemporaneity allows a good use of the whole, which becomes a series of connected interior open spaces that are illuminated and also connected through the exterior courtyards.
