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Harquitectes . photos: © Adrià Goula

On the plot where the Social Housing were built, primarily intended for the elderly, there was a building that we were obliged to demolish due to its non-compliance with urban planning regulations and its poor condition—there was no possibility of preserving it. It was a small, disused three-story school constructed with structural sandstone (marès) walls and concrete and ceramic ceilings. The project’s distinctive strategy was the utilization of demolition materials from the old school as resources to construct the new building, practicing what we might call urban mining: where material resources come from the urban plot itself, resulting from the demolition of the pre-existing building. Continue reading Harquitectes

Harquitectes . photos: © Adrià Goula

The new Prodis headquarters is located in old industrial buildings that were originally part of the Vapor Marqués. The buildings are made up of the traditional perimeter structure of ceramic brick load-bearing walls following a regular rhythm of pilasters and openings every 3 meters. The 12-meter span of the buildings is covered by wooden trusses -some quite affected by roof leaks- that follow the same rhythm as the pilasters. The roof also follows the traditional structure of wooden straps and battens topped with Arabic tiles. Between the two buildings, the original service street has been built over the years with hybrid constructions of metal structure and ceramic vault. As a result of the industrial activities that have been carried out there, all the buildings have been transformed and altered over the years and therefore the main value of the complex lies in its urban structure (warehouse-street-warehouse), in its archetypal condition as an industrial warehouse and in its inherent imperfection as a product of the history of its transformations and the accumulated memory. Continue reading Harquitectes

H arquitectes . photos: © Adrià Goula

On the ruins of Mas Geli, an old farmhouse, of which only two facades with buttresses and a couple of spaces with stone vaults were preserved, this new house rises, which reinterprets values of vernacular architecture without renouncing the contemporaneity of the proposal.
The project aims to be coherent with the context, looking for the integration of the new farmhouse in the exceptional landscape of Baix Empordà, a continuum of agricultural spaces with the distant (but constant) presence of ancestral farmhouses perfectly situated in the landscape. Continue reading H arquitectes

H arquitectes . photos: © Adrià Goula

A house in the middle of the city. A house for a family of 5 or 6 members, with quite an amount of program. A “house” in an area of urban density and on a plot that, despite being quite wide and long, is inevitably surrounded by other buildings and with all the pressure of a big city. Of the existing building, only the street facade will remain, which is a protected facade. Continue reading H arquitectes