Gallery in La Pizarrera

The gleaming glass slabs, geometrically laid out in the grass, look like land art, but they are skylights over a private gallery of important works of Spanish art. The new exhibition space, its underground location and ground plan dictated by the need to preserve the garden’s oak trees, connects two existing residential buildings. Getting as much natural, evenly distributed light as possible into the exhibition space was the biggest challenge. The solution was to incorporate 45 almost flat skylights of equal size into the flat roof. The laminated safety glass is fitted flush with the upper surface of the steel window frame. A removable system of aluminum louvres can be inserted for shading.