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The project for Guallart Architects this time is to reforming two buildings that accommodate a small textile industry and a house in Igualada, near Barcelona. Nowadays, Rec neighborhood is in the middle of a transformation area. From an industrial tradition into a creative neighborhood that hosts artists, cultural, events and gastronomy.
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The main project of this building is to make a space to live and the office inside. To make it happen, the architect emptying the buildings of slabs, patios, walls and pillars. Hence, demolishing, reinforcing, recycling and valuing buildings with a simple, popularly-based materials is becomes the base of this project.
The architect creates a ground floor with double-height space, with a book mezzanine and a large open fireplace in it. As for the first floor, around the old ventilation patio, they create a large, intermediate space for the children’s room. And on the upper floor, they create a spacious room from recycling the beams of the demolished floors. They repeat those for the the small business building, too, in order to creating a workspace with great material savings.
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The facade that exposing the different materials and phases of its construction is an incorporating mural by Btoy, an artist which strengthen the cultural character of Rec Neighborhood.
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