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From the Foundation's website (http://miro.palmademallorca.es/english/index.htm):
"The Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca Foundation was formed in 1981, the year in which Joan Miró and his wife Pilar Juncosa donated the four workshops in which the artist had carried out his creative work from 1956, when he settled permanently on the Island - and where he remained until his death in 1983 - as well as the large number of works they contained.
Throughout this time, Miró had been seriously concerned at the thought that what had been his creative environment, imbued with the imprint of his daily work and the origin of his final creative phase, should be forgotten or simply disappear.
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In 1981, the Palma City Council approved the formation of the Fundació Pública Municipal Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca as a living and dynamic cultural centre and drew up the charter that would govern it in the future.
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Rafael Moneo, the well-known architect, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, at that time, and a disciple of Josep Lluis Sert, was commissioned to design and plan the new headquarters for the Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca Foundation, in the setting of the grounds of Son Boter and Son Abrines where the painter had lived.
The inauguration of the new Foundation building in December 1992 marked the public opening of the Foundation to Palma (...)".
Adress:
Carrer Joan de Saridakis, 29
07015 Palma
Opening hours:
Summer visiting times (from 16th May to 15th September)
Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm
Sundays and Public Holidays from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm
Closed on Mondays.
Winter visiting times (from 16th September to 15th May)
Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm
Sundays and Public Holidays from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm
Closed on Mondays.
Admission: 5.00 €
How to get there:
By bus: line 3, line 6 and line 46
By car: From the city center drive west along Autopista de Ponent / Avinguda de Gabriel Roca. Take exit 4 towards Cala Major. Immediately after passing a gas station on your right, turn right towads Carrer de Joan de Saridakis. The Fundació will appear on your left, opposite to a parking lot.
Map showing the route from the city center (Plaça de la Reina) to the Fundació
Entrance gate seen from Carrer Joan de Saridakis
To enter the building we walk along its north façade
This is one of the two windows on this façade and opens to a double height exhibition space. The building sits on a slope, so its main level is below the entrance level.
Looking back while walking towards the entrance. Note there's a horizontal strip of concrete that has been sandblasted, hence its rougher texture compared to the rest of the wall.
Approaching the entrance porch
...and looking through it
Entrance doors on the right, glazing above the stairs to the lower level in front of us
On this level, the south façade of the building is protected from the sun by this corridor, shaded by huge concrete louvres
The south façade. To the right is the roof of the main exhibition space, "espacio estrella"
Close up of the concrete louvres
Skylights above the "espacio estrella", emerging from the water filled roof terrace.
Unfortunately the water wasn't being recirculated as it was supposed to, so it looked green and didn't smell too good...
Roof edge detail, where the water was supposed to run down...
Inside, going down to the main floor
Stair seen from the lower level
Corridor below the exterior one in the upper level
A small exhibition space just before entering the main one displays some Miró's drawings. The interior walls are similar to the exterior ones, made from white concrete poured in wood formwork. The floors are finished with screed.
Ramp going down to "espacio estrella"
Continuing to go down. Note how the walls are separated from the ceiling
Unusual for an art museum, there's always natural light in this space. Low windows allow you to view the garden surface without being distracted. Above them a marble surface filters the light.
General view of the first section of this space
"Espacio estrella" (star space)
joHanneum Z 07-07-2007, 01:46 The idea with the natural light system is great. To let them emerge like an u-boat out of the water...
Also to put optical the wall away from the ceiling is nice, makes the ceiling hovering, floating. The materials are used in a nice way.
the up and down with the ramps let you encounter the rooms in an exiting way, also it is wheelchheer equitable.
Different ways of letting the lights in and also out give the building its greatness.
for me also in an art gallery or museum- natural light should be achieved. The people who work there are the whole weeks there, so natural light is more friendly for them.
Freestanding L shaped wall. It's a pity that the light fixtures, cctv, etc. are so disturbing.
This is another exhibition space, the "espacio cúbico" (cubic space), located on the east end of the building. The window opens to the exterior corridor along the south façade
Opposite view. The big window is the one in the north façade close to the entrance gate. Below, some of Miró's tapestries
View of the star space from east. The horizontal concrete louvres hide the marble windows
Close up (more green water)
joHanneum Z 07-07-2007, 02:00 Freestanding L shaped wall. It's a pity that the light fixtures, cctv, etc. are so disturbing.
perhaps better?- the lights on the L- bringing the light up in a vertical way to the top and so into the room...
Stairs on the east side of the building
joHanneum Z 07-07-2007, 02:07 The stones in post 35 seem to be gliding on the water...
- do you know has Miro in his art a special connection towards water..?Is the buildings form, parts of it inside outside leaned on his way of own art style...
- the water scene rembers me on Carlo Scarpa and his cemetery...
And another view of the corridor along the south façade, looking west
And now for something completely different...
West of the Fundació main building, there's a beautiful studio designed for Miró by his friend Josep Lluis Sert in 1956
Light comes in through these huge windows in the north wall
Ondulated ceiling with openings for natural ventilation
Gallery above the studio. The grey shutters open to let the sea breeze in
Detail of the ceramic grid enclosing these shutters
Courtyard on the north side of the studio
Studio windows - Fixed glazing and wooden ventilation slots
Joan Miró i Ferrà
April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983
In the pics of the study house , is clearly seen the influence of le Corbusier in Sert`s work. The photo of post # 48 remembered to me the Errázuriz House , a project of LC for Chile that never was built.
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