LAB15
EL PORTALET PALACE
Client: Alicante City Council / Patronato municipal de la vivienda Date: 2016 – 2017 Categories: Archaeology, Permanent Exhibition, Heritage Intervention, Valorization
Recent Architecture Exhibition in Alicante 2016-2017 (Work selected by the CTAA).
Location: Alicante, Spain Museographic Design: Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura Photographs: Cabrera Photo
This permanent exhibition “LAB 15. Palacio del Portalet” uncovers the rich history of Alicante in the 18th century. Located in a palace house in the Old Quarter of Alicante, this exhibition offers an immersion in the historical architecture of the city, highlighting a rehabilitation, restoration, accessibility and design project.
The exhibition reveals the fascinating rehabilitation of this historic palace-house, testimony of an era and representative of this typology of architectures that colonize Alicante’s old town. Through meticulous restoration, not only has the original splendor of the building been preserved, but also a window into the history of the formation of Alicante and its imposing noble structures has been created, highlighting emblematic buildings of the Old Quarter such as the Co-cathedral of San Nicolás, the Convent of the Sisters of the Blood, the Casa de la Asegurada (now MACA) or the rest of the eighteenth-century palace houses preserved.
The museographic design integrates the entire intervention with the utmost respect for the architecture, where vertical sheets of printed methacrylate provide information allowing a complete view of the rooms, recovering original elements of the house integrated into the museography and adapting its spaces for different uses, such as temporary exhibitions or audiovisual rooms with interactive models, free-standing backlit modules and narrative and environmental projections.
Located at Labradores 15, in the historic heart of the city, the exhibition invites you to explore Alicante’s real estate heritage in a setting that combines the elegance of 18th century architecture with a contemporary approach to conservation.
