Mercabarna has opened the new building for the flower
market Mercabarna-Flor, an innovative market for flower,
plant and accessory wholesalers. The market aims to become
one of the principal markets in Catalonia and the rest of Spain,
and a reference for facilities on European level.
The project of the market maintains in its exterior façade
the archetypical image of traditional markets, in which the roof
turns into the real protagonist, like an icon of public architecture.
The roof of the new market consists of a combination of folds
between the floor, the wall and the roof, dissolving those elements
to create entrances, loading zones or protected areas around
the entire perimeter of the building. Its analogy with a shell gives
the building an organic character that is associated with the activity
and movement that is happening on the inside.
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