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Rehabilitation of the Vapor Cortès. Prodis 1933 / HARQUITECTES

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:00:00 +0000

The new Prodis headquarters is located in old industrial buildings that were originally part of the Vapor Cortès. 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.

Family Mausoleum, Municipal Cemetery / Fransmas architects

Clara Ott — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:00:00 +0000

The circle is a reference to divinity, humanity, and science. A symbol that brings the image of perfection to our mind.

95PLA Refurbishment / Vallribera Arquitectes

Andreas Luco — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Another row house, another four-person family, another set of parents, and another two children. Another challenge to take on. The design deals with an issue that is characteristic of this kind of project: is it better to refurbish the original building or tear it down and build something new? In this case, the answer is unclear. On the one hand, the structure at the back of the house has been damaged due to a lack of maintenance on the roof. The stairwell also needs to be torn out to make room for a parking area (one of the client’s non-negotiable requests). That requires a rather large surface area of new construction. On the other hand, the original building has the charm of a 100-year-old house, and the rest of the structure and building enve-lope can be kept and refurbished.

82SAN Restoration and Extension of a House Between Dividing Walls / Vallribera Arquitectes

Andreas Luco — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

The unique characteristics of this row house come from a very narrow plot (3.8 meters wide) and a very long backyard. The clients, a couple with two children, need the standard program for a family of four. Within the volume of the existing building, we agree to put in three bedrooms of similar sizes and proportions. On the ground floor, looking over the street, the older son’s bedroom. On the second floor, two more bedrooms: one for the couple and the other for the younger son, each located along one of the façades. The center is occupied by two bathrooms: one on the second floor and another on the ground floor, also for guests. The volume of the building is expanded in order to place the kitchen-dining-living room adjacent to the patio garden, at the same level. A new loft space is added under the roof, which provides an extra multi-purpose room that can be used as a study or as a fourth bedroom. The original staircase is maintained. There is no need for a parking area.

Aimerigues Institute / Barceló Balanzó Arquitectes + Xavier Gracia

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The new Institute is located on a plot at the edge of the housing area of the Aimerigues sector, on the threshold of future city growth and an area of parks of important dimensions limited by the street Icaria. The implementation is defined by the location of the building's volumes within the plot: a compact volume aligned on the street Pablo Iglesias and a smaller volume that contains the gymnasium and that defines the access through a public space and the porch. The typological model proposed is of a compact nature with a bright and generous central corridor, with classrooms on both sides. An economical, compact, flexible and efficient volume.

Residential Building in Galileo / Pepe Gascón Arquitectura

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:00:00 +0000

The residential block is located in Terrassa city centre (Barcelona). It is a rectangular plot on the corner of two roads, one of which is very busy.

Bajo Comercial Convertido En Loft / Egue y Seta

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

From the outside, the vertical shutters draw wooden strips over a sight of a rich green hedgerow and a leafy bush. ¿Are they just the outside trees reflected over the windows panes? ¿or are these transparencies?

The Factory / Pepe Gascón

Cristian Aguilar — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

An industrial building in the premises of an old early twentieth-century textile factory in Terrassa, a leading city in Catalonia’s textile industry, has been refurbished and equipped as an office.

Social Housing in Terrassa / TAC Arquitectes

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Located in the area of Can Colomer, next to the road from Terrassa to Rellinars, this small housing project develops planning requirements. It is an L-shaped building with two substantially different bodies in length and depth that determine the typological options for each case. Thus, while the shallower volume with facades facing North and South is designed with units with 2 facades each, the perpendicular volume facing East and West has houses on each side with access and cross ventilation through a longitudinal corridor courtyard.

Evangelical Temple in Terrassa / OAB

Jonathan Alarcon — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:00:43 +0000

Architects: OAB
Location: Terrassa, Spain
Project Architects: Carlos Ferrater y Lucía Ferrater
Technical Architect: Enric Betlinski
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Alejo Bagué

IES Mont Perdut in Terrassa / Lluis Comeron i Graupera

Nico Saieh — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The IES has been made entirely with precast concrete (structural and facade), built in just ten months with an impoverished palette of materials: white-painted concrete, plasterboard and aluminum windows. It is organized as an asymmetrical T, with the administration wing, that ends with a porch, arranged perpendicular to the main wing, with lobby at the intersection.

ATHC Headquarters / XVA Arquitectura

Nico Saieh — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Site Integration and fusion