TEATRE PRINCIPAL TERRASSA

Fabré, Xavier/ Ferran, Domènec

 

DL: B-14.829/11

Terrassa, 2011

This book is the textual complement of the Rehabilitation of the Municipal Theater of Terrassa, of the restoration of the stone, of the stained glass windows, of the plaster, of the great forgotten mosaic of Mario Maragliano formed of small tiles in the Roman way almost disappeared, of the reuse of the space under the dome, of the recovery in essence of the magnificent façade that was mutilated when in the sixties, with an outrageous contempt for the architectural, cultural and social heritage the building became a cinema.

The book talks about the recovery of architecture and architectural elements but the most important recovery is the functional one: the building that in private hands had reached the limit of absurdity and abandonment followed a process of rehabilitation to be able to to return to be the theater of reference of its city. The book explains the architectural strategies to provide the building with a suitable stage and services, but the symbiosis that is established between the new and the old, between the architecture created and the redesigned spaces and, in a special way, the volumetric definition of the room to congregate and prepare the public for the artistic experience.