PILAR AND JOAN MIRÓ FOUNDATION

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PILAR AND JOAN MIRÓ FOUNDATION
Palma de Mallorca, Spain

As director of the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation, Miguel Servera entrusted Rafael Moneo with a project that would complete the set of buildings erected on Joan Miró’s property in Son Abrines: an 18th-century mansion, the Miró family home designed by the architect Juncosa, and the studio designed by the architect Josep Lluís Sert. Moneo’s work confronts the dilapidated environment and tries to rescue the lost bay by carrying water to the roof of a concrete building consisting of a longitudinal element crowned by a star-shaped polygon reminiscent of a fortress’s bastion, a metaphor of the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró defending itself in a hostile setting. On another note, the uneven and broken condition of this architecture enables Miró’s oeuvre, with its moments of epiphany and discontinuity, to fit in here.
LOCATION:

Joan de Saridakis, 29. Palma de Mallorca. Spain
CLIENT:

Joan and Pilar Miró Foundation
PROGRAM:

Art gallery
ARCHITECT:

Rafael Moneo
PROJECT TEAM:

Emilio Tuñón (architect)
Luis Moreno (architect)
Luis Rojo (architect)
Vicente Cortés (architect)
Rafael Balaguer (site supervisor)
Antonio Esteva (site supervisor)
COLLABORATORS:

Structural engineer: Mariano Moneo Vallés
Mechanical: Gustavo Alvarez - JG Asociados
Models: Juan de Dios Hernández y Jesús Rey
BUILDER:

Agroman
BUDGET:

5.090.000 €
SURFACE AREA:

2.990 m2
DATE:

Commission: 1987
Groundbreaking: 1989
Inauguration: 1992