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International Volvo Photo Locations Part 533

Plató Granollers with Roca Umbert Factory of Arts is located on Carrer d’Enric Prat de la Riba in Granollers, north of Barcelona, Spain.

The textile factory that became an arts factory.

The origin of the factory dates back to 1871 in Sant Feliu de Codines, when Josep Umbert i Ventura (1844-1917) opened a textile factory that only five years later was expanded with the acquisition of ounce of land in Granollers, specifically in Palou. The industrial growth in the rapid consolidation of the Catalan textile sector began to triple the company’s production, in 1904 the construction of the Roca Umbert factory was started, and the first telers were installed.

In 1936 the company was requisitioned by its workers and the name of Espartacus was taken. In 1939, there was a strong destruction caused by a provocative fire, but slowly it began to recover and in the fiftieth decade the thermal power plant was built, to allow the factory’s autonomy in electrical supply, so that the constants Electrical restrictions force fer atures in production. The modernization of the industry begins and a large quantity of products are manufactured, among which the cotó fish stand out: bates, taula jocs, llençols, military clothes, Texan clothes… Surely the goal of unifying everything in a single company The production process (batanar, filar, sorting, weaving and tening) goes beyond the fact that Roca Umbert’s fabrics are so appreciated by its quality.

In 1971 the Sant Feliu de Codines ships were tanked and the owners joined the textile restructuring plan. Five years later the transfer of the filatura from Granollers to Batllòria (Sant Celoni) begins. The second restructuring plan was in 1978 and, in all vague generalities, the factory only began in 1991.

Roca Umbert will be an exemplary factory that produces some projects that go beyond legal obligations. In these examples, the cradle house is raised at 5 years old by the infants of the working seas, and the seamstress, a Spaniard, can train single workers to know how to run a house.

A third of the surface of the former Roca Umbert textile factory is municipal. In 2003, the Granollers City Council approved the Use Plan for the Roca Umbert project as a factory of arts and in November 2004, the Architectural Director Plan was approved. Both documents have established the full route that has guided the rehabilitation of the 21,000 m2 that Roca Umbert currently has, leading to a new center of contemporary creation.

Since the Technological and University Center was built (2003), Roca Umbert has been a project in continuous evolution: in 2005 the library was inaugurated; in 2006, La Troca Center of Popular and Traditional Culture, the bar, the CUB espai d’assaig musical and the offices; 2008, l’Espai d’Arts; in 2009, the Audiovisual Center; In 2010, the NauB1 Musical Creation and Diffusion Center and the Dents de Serra multi-purpose nau, and in 2011, the production workshops of the major festival and the Thermal Festival were rehabilitated in a first phase of the works, as a performance center of the industrial passat.

Parallel to this, private companies have been established at Roca Umbert: the Taller Sarandaca (2005), Arsènic, Espai de Creació (2011) and the workshop of the visual artist Joan Fontcuberta (2013).

Roca Umbert is a cultural space in constant transformation, serving the creative processes, artistic training and the dialogue between the arts, which advances cooperating with the emerging economic system, especially with the audiovisual industry.

Its multidisciplinary character and comprehensive approach to creation, which includes research, creation, training, production and dissemination, are the areas of action of the areas that make up Roca Umbert, and its activity is intensifying. As the rehabilitation of the naus progresses, the rehabilitation of the naus also progresses.

A unique scenario where literature, music, popular culture, visual arts, audiovisuals, thought, heritage can be combined and intercreated to be experienced in all fields of contemporary creation and can be shared among the creators and the citizens.

An open and collaborative innovation that makes Roca Umbert a laboratory more than a container, which cooperates with the economic and social security of the city of Granollers.

Una innovació oberta i col·laborativa que fa de Roca Umbert un laboratori més que un contenidor, que coopera amb el teixit econòmic i social de la ciutat de Granollers.

More information at rocaumbert.com and instagram.com/rocaumbertfabricadelesarts.