ARCHILETTERS

Peces senyeres i de conjunt. Com l’explicació anterior.

I petites joietes esparces per l’urbs. Com el comentari següent.

  
“CityVision Architecture Competition is an annual competition held by the homonymous magazine of architecture CityVision Magazine that invites architects, designers, students, artists and creatives to develop urban and visionary proposals with the aim of stimulating new ideas for the contemporary city. … New York CityVision is the fourth international ideas competition launched by CityVision. The competition wants you to imagine New York in its future if the manipulation of the urban context and its architectural objects, joined with its inhabitants, will be influenced by SPACE and TIME. The New York ideas will be judged by an international jury which will have as president Joshua Prince-Ramus, founder of the office REX and again Eva Franch i Gilabert, Roland Snooks, Shohei Shigematsu, Alessandro Orsini and Mitchell Joachim, all of whom are distingueshed [sic] by the large experimentation willingness in their work.”

No en són tots, però,
n’estan els claudàtors.
Embrutem esborranys.
Tovallons taquem.
Somiem. I ensomniem.

A l’inici, sents la foscor.
Sents el vent, refilar fullams.
S’endevinen tes mans,
lletres que acompanyen.

A l’inici sents salnitre,
ensordidor bategar de cors.
Entre costats d’un arbre,
besllumem clarors.

Una música finíssima
t’adorm, mansívola sent,
s’apodera de la ment.

Mescladissa coneixedora,
agredolça de l’averany.
S’imposa retronadora,
arrauxada, corprén el seny.

Ta essència cridanera,
retruny, endins d’idees.
Cerquera i masovera.
Ataülles ça i lla. Salpes.

No n’hi ha, de braus mariners,
que solquen els teus oceans?

Natura acompassada.
N’aprens. Eficaç tornada.
Quan n’eres. T’embolcalla.
Defuig d’incontaminacions.
Autodisciplina contaminant
d’antigues civilitzacions.

Positius albirons,
d’éssers i encontorns.
Obssessiva satisfacció.
Comunicativa obstinació.

Bases que cerquem,
basses on s’ofeguem.
Diagonals vèrtex tomben,
s’alliten incertes.
Secció àuria divinal,
retallada lateral.

Ta presència, és
oogàmia dels cors.
Sageta mental,
cleda on romandre.

Arc, on tu, gairebé,
no tens lloc jamai.
Blanc de l’ànima.
Negra fermesa.
Ònix envermellit,
Tulipa.Verd de mar.

Persones inànimes
poblen els espais.
Cerquen robins d’amor,
troben rovellons coures.

Triangles mironians.
Segments mondrianians.
Rectangles fractals.
Mons fragmentats.
Colors banals.
Urbs, banalitzacions.
Oblidats precedents.

Deixes caure la marca,
peungla encastada.
Talles a colp sec. Eixut.
Silent. Brogit sorrut.

RESTORATION STUDY FOR THE NOLLA PALACE

2012

L’equip el formen:
XAVIER LAUMAIN, arquitecte coordinador.
ÁNGELA LÓPEZ SABATER, arquitecta.
JORDI RÍOS ALÒS, arquitecte.
BRUNO RIVES CALBET, arqueòleg.
RAFEL RUBIO GALÁN, arqueòleg.
CARLES HUERTA GABARDA, ceramista.
ALBERT FERRER ORTS, Historiador de l’Art.
El projecte, presentat a EUROPA NOSTRA 2012 en la categoria 4 (investigació), té com a títol: “ESTUDI CONSTRUCTIU DEL PALAUET NOLLA EN MELIANA”.

“The jury appreciated the depth, and the interest and care invested in this investigation made prior to the restoration of the Nolla Palace, a monument that while “modest” is full of significance and historical value, witness to activities linked to the production of Spanish ceramics in the 19th century. Through the analysis of the context, of the construction of the original 17th century building, of its rehabilitation as an object and a symbol, and of the ceramics which were produced, the study has not only established the sequence of a process of recuperation, but has also won the interest and the recognition of the citizens of Meliana.”

This research focuses on one of the most emblematic monuments of the nineteenth century in Valencia: the Nolla Palace. This palace, situated in Meliana, was the symbol and the exhibition centre of a ceramic factory of outmost importance in the history of Spanish industrialization, and whose magnificent mosaics have decorated innumerable Art Nouveau buildings throughout Europe, such as those built by Antoni Gaudí.
In order to perform this restoration, and given its historical and artistic importance, a international multi-disciplinary team of experts carried out a study for the exhaustive comprehension of the structure, volumetric, decoration, history and conservation state of the building, all necessary information for the establishment of intervention criteria.
This project has allowed the discovery of the building’s evolution, the documentation of all its constructive and decorative elements and the understanding of its pathologies.