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27 apartments . Salou

Nua arquitectures . photos: © José Hevia

The new project of 27 apartments consists in recycling and rehabilitating an abandoned anodyne building and seeks to establish a dialogue with these first holiday-makers in Salou and their palaces from the beginning of the 20th century on a conceptual and material level. The project offers an alternative lifestyle to mass tourism: a slow-paced and local model, deseasonalised and rooted in the original architectural tradition of the site. Continue reading Nua arquitectures

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Sandra and Mario’s house . Vila-seca

NUA arquitectures . photos: © José Hevia

Vila-seca’s origin, in the 12th century, was in the period of repopulation of Tarragona, after a long period in which the territory was abandoned after being a frontier land between al-Andalus and the County of Barcelona. In essence, the town’s origin can be understood as an intersection of roads between the axis formed by the road that linked Cambrils with La Canonja, with the axis that linked Reus with the sea. At the central point of the crossroads, the Church of Sant Esteve is the foundational element from which the first walled town centre was formed. As early as the 16th century, the town centre of Vila-seca grew along the two seminal perpendicular axes outside the walls. This bidirectional suburban growth is materialised by rows of houses between boundary walls built along the initial road, which quickly branches out to accommodate more dwellings. Continue reading NUA arquitectures

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Casa-patio . Salou

NUA arquitectures . photos: © Adrià Goula

La casa se sitúa en una urbanización en las afueras de Salou que se articula alrededor del Parque Arqueológico de la Villa Romana de Barenys, un edificio del siglo I a.C. destinado a la producción de cerámica para la construcción y la elaboración de ánforas, utilizadas para exportar a distintos puntos del Imperio el vino tarraconense. Continue reading NUA arquitectures