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El 1979 obté el títol d’arquitecte per l’Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona.
Entra com a col·laborador del professor Albert Viaplana a la ETSAB el 1979.
L’any 1977 col·labora en el despatx de Ramón Artigues.
Treballa amb Josep M. Gil des del 1980, primer com a col·laborador i més tard com associat formant l’any 1999 la societat professional BONELL I GIL, ARQUITECTES S.L.P.
Ha estat professor convidat a l’Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio del 2015 al 2017.
Ha estat guardonat durant la seva activitat professional com a Bonell i Gil en els premis Ciutat de Barcelona els anys 1994 i 1996, el Premio Nacional de Arquitectura Deportiva de l’any 2000, el Premi FAD el 1975 i 1984, el FAD Internacional el 2018, entre d’altres
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FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: ArchitectureHabitatges BandrésFrégoli I Dwellings
Building for a community of owners on a narrow and long plot (9x40m) in the neighbourhood of Sant Gervasi. It is about achieving an unconventional domestic space for small houses. A different space, qualified from the visual connection of the different parts of the dwellings, which are developed in two levels of 2 and 4.20m in height.FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: ArchitectureFrégoli I DwellingsBarcelona Design Centre (BCD)
Ramon Artigues Codó, Esteve Bonell i Costa
The objective was to adapt the new headquarters of the BCD (Barcelona Design Centre) as an exhibition space on the ground floor of a building in Passeig de Gràcia. The available space was developed on three floors without natural lighting. One was at street level, long and narrow, connected at the end with the other two lower ones. Faced with the complexity of the ground floor (two cinemas, storefronts, etc.), efforts were made to individualise the entrance to the premises, retracting it, replacing the narrow initial door with a large storefront entrance. A fire-enamelled side scroll with the initials BCD ruled over the spacious hall. The entrance with a counter for information and book sales and the beginning of the exhibition area and the offices was on the ground floor at street level. The exhibition area delimited the offices by means of a semi-reflective glass membrane, finished with a gentle curve, where the library is located. Administration services could alter their distribution by means of mobile separation panels. The staircase, at the bottom, incorporated and linked the access floor with the other two. The two lower floors were intended for exhibition and meeting rooms. A global solution of the same was offered, through a double-height space. This space coincided with the void of the upper floor where the access staircase was. A secondary staircase enabled communication between the two floors through different areas of the route. On the lower floor, objects of greater volume could be exposed in the area corresponding to the double height. The meeting room, separated by a sliding door, provided a space with capacity for 100 people. It is completely folded: a unique space was achieved throughout the floor. It was about solving the individuality of access to the premises, facilitating the visitors' journey and giving a sense of spatial continuity on the three floors.62 Apartment Complex Llessuí
Ramon Artigues Codó, Esteve Bonell i Costa
Setanta dos apartaments i locals comercials, situats en una franja de terreny que separa dos petits pobles de l’Alt Pirineu, Llessui i Torre. Es planteja la nova construcció com una agrupació d’habitatges amb una imatge potent, que donés resposta tant a l’escala i caràcter dels dos pobles veïns com al paisatge natural, el veritable protagonista. Els apartaments es disposen en dos edificis lineals emplaçats paral·lelament en el solar, segons el pendent, la bona orientació i les vistes. Un carrer – escala – rampa ortogonal als dos blocs travessa i ordena l’implantació.FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: Interior DesignBarcelona Design Centre (BCD)House and Studio of the Cartoonist Cesc
Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
El programa d’una casa-estudi per a un dibuixant es desenvolupa en plena muntanya, en una zona sense urbanitzar. El solar queda condicionat per una gran roca granítica que determina la disposició dels volums. La casa queda dividida en dos cossos separats de la roca, un per a l’habitatge i l’altre per a l’estudi. L’espai entre tots dos cossos fa de pas d’accés, i tots dos volums es reculen al nivell de la planta baixa per guiar els recorreguts. Les escales de tots dos cossos, d’un sol tram, se situen tangents a la roca. S’accedeix a l’habitatge seguint la reculada del mur de la sala d’estar, sempre a la vora de la roca i caminant-hi tangencialment. Tots els dormitoris queden inclosos en una peça rigorosament distribuïda, mentre que la sala d’estar i l’estudi se situen a banda i banda del pas d’accés, configurant la complexa articulació del punt on s’enfronten tots dos volums.Frégoli II Dwellings
It is a small building of four homes located in the Sant Gervasi district, Barcelona. A change in the municipal ordinances regarding the width of the street causes the building to be set back with respect to the alignment of the neighbouring houses. The homes are developed in triplex, with a “solarium” terrace on the roof of the top floor. Bedrooms and living rooms ventilate to the outside, while kitchens, bathrooms and stairs are grouped around a patio, which ventilates and illuminates the central part of the building. The main façade solves the dualities that occur when two houses are ventilated with a unitary design. Thus, the two entrances, people and vehicles, are solved in a single complex. The pergola balcony unifies the two living rooms on the first floor. The four bedrooms on the second floor are solved with three windows and the two upper terraces in three holes. The back façade, which overlooks a small garden, is treated with more domestic materials, and each home assumes its individuality.FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: ArchitectureFrégoli II DwellingsPlaça Espanya Dwellings
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
The project occupies the northern half of Plaça Espanya in Sabadell. The proposal follows the General Plan which defined a linear block of 14m depth and a height of ground floor and 7 floors. The geometry of the curved blocks, of excessive depth, was resolved with recesses in the concave façade facing south and by creating tensions in the corners, which assume their greatest urban complexity. Two houses per landing with ventilation on two opposite façades. The domestic space is solved with all the rectangular pieces, accumulating the angular deviation due to the curvature in the living room. Facilities and services are grouped together, and a certain constructive dignity is achieved despite the limited surface area and budget module.Horta Municipal Velodrome
Esteve Bonell i Costa, Francesc Rius i Camps
The project assumes the challenge of covering simple programmatic requirements, but with urban implications that make the suitability of the proposal problematic. The new velodrome is located on a plot of land without its own definition, bounded by the Mundet Homes, the Labyrinth of Horta Gardens, a natural valley and the Vall d'Hebron promenade, which marks the boundaries between the built city and the beginning of the undevelopable terrain. The shape and dimensions of the track were determined by strictly technical factors. The main decision of the project is to close the enclosure with a circular portico that allows the same delivery criteria with the different accidents in the area, while allowing the possibility of covering the track with a dome. This portico is 4 metres thick, houses all the services for spectators and leaves a remaining space for a possible extension of the stands, TV cameras, etc.FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: ArchitectureHorta Municipal VelodromeSalou Municipal Sports Pavilion
Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart, Francesc Rius i Camps
El poliesportiu queda inclòs en un solar rectangular de la zona nord del municipi. La façana més estreta dóna a una plaça de nova creació, entre l’ajuntament i una escola. La nova construcció es planteja com un petit pavelló que dóna façana a la plaça, des d’on s’hi accedeix a través d’una obertura vidrada que abasta gairebé tota l’amplada. A la part oposada s’hi afegeix un reduït gimnàs disponible per a petites funcions de teatre. Les grades, a banda i banda, tenen una capacitat per a 800 espectadors. L’impacte visual de la capsa queda reduït gràcies a la divisió en tres ordres: el de les grades, el de les jàsseres que salven transversalment la llum de la coberta, i el de les lluernes superiors, repartides en tres volums. Des de la plaça s’accedeix al vestíbul a través d’escales i suaus rampes, i des d’aquí es recorre perimetralment aquesta cota aixecada per accedir a les grades i al gimnàs-escenari del fons.Can Brians Prison
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Manuel Brullet i Tenas, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart, Francesc Rius i Camps
To build a prison is to build a closed world, as were abbeys, monasteries or ancient acropolises. In the image of all of them, a prison is a small abstract world, located in a rural environment where 1500 people live and work. Human relationships, personal and collective interactions and, ultimately, a strong relationship between man and space appear. It is about creating a "city" on virgin land, taking into account geographic and landscape considerations to achieve a good implementation, but above all, it is about solving the highly complex programmatic aspects where control and security issues are prioritised. Urban situations similar to, but not equal to, those of the traditional city are considered. Here the square is not a meeting place, the street has more of a sense of separation than of communication, and in the façades seclusion is more important than the communication between interior and exterior.Badalona Sports Pavilion
Esteve Bonell i Costa, Francesc Rius i Camps
The project’s approach assumes that it is a multi-sports hall intended for high competition basketball, and therefore linked to one of the most representative and popular factors of the municipality. The various problems generated by its dimensions and importance are addressed independently, although synthesised in a fairly simple organism. The track of the stands takes an ellipsoidal shape: four linked circular arcs, two of them large and two of them small. Circulations from the outside are solved with a large main entrance, oriented towards the city and inclined with respect to the urban axis that culminates, and ten perimeter exits, accessible from the intermediate level. The roof is made up of six large symmetrical girders, paired two by two and locked by a central brace. The building can accommodate up to 12,500 spectators and its maximum dimensions are 150 x 120 metres.Girona Law Courts
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
L’edifici dels jutjats ha d’assumir els condicionants d’un lloc situat en el límit del paisatge urbà de Girona, a prop del riu Onyar, a la riba oposada a la zona antiga de la ciutat i davant el conjunt monumental de la Catedral i el pinacle de l’església de Sant Feliu. Un edifici de gran complexitat programàtica, amb varietat d’espais, on la consideració d’allò públic i d’allò privat o restringit, fa necessària una claredat de circulacions i una lògica d’agrupació d’àrees segons les activitats i la seva situació respecte l’exterior. En l’ala principal s’ubiquen els serveis comuns, les magistratures i les zones representatives. A l’altra, els jutjats amb les sales de vista en planta baixa.Vila Olímpica Dwellings
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
The new Olympic Village neighbourhood allows the opening of Barcelona to the sea, as well as the organization of the coastal area following the city’s traditional morphology (closed blocks) but with a current look. The new neighbourhood results from the overlaying of different architectural projects, subjected to a General Plan designed by Oriol Bohigas. Our project is located within the block of flats bounded by Litoral Avenue, Arquitecte Sert Street, Icària Avenue and Poble Nou Street. The project is based on pre-existing singularities; a mandatory section in front of Litoral Avenue, a porch with gabled roof, a circular square (tower), an interior space with towers, the presence of bridges and brick as the main material. The solution adopted consists of 170 homes along with commercial premises and car parks. Despite the different urban situations – linear block, corners, mandatory section, isolated spaces inside the block – the main feature was to give a unitary image to the whole building complex. All this takes place in a context of low pricing, labour problems and speed of execution. To achieve this, only two types of housing were chosen (2 flats per landing plus the triplex in the linear flats), as well as the same construction and façade material criteria. With the aim of always resolving privacy, protection and communication with the exterior, the different façades/buildings have different formal treatment, depending on the orientations and/or urban situations. The rear façades and part of the isolated buildings start from the 1m sliding window that unifies openings (bedroom, kitchen and laundry room). Regarding the rest, an opening to the exterior is not chosen, instead, there is a double façade created as a filter or as an intermediate space between the inside and the outside. Nonetheless, the aim to solve dimensional problems of scale is also present, in addition to solving the possible symmetries and repetitions due to the addition of equal parts and their adequacy to the exterior.Sports Pavilion and Rowing Workshop in Banyoles
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
Un lloc de condicions paisatgístiques extraordinàries, el parc de la Draga, al costat del llac, entre els límits de la Vila Olímpica i l’àrea poblada d’arbres plataners que voreja la carretera d’Olot. La coberta, una estructura d’encavallades de forma lenticular, és un punt singular, no tant per la dimensió a cobrir com pel fet de donar un valor a la imatge de l’edifici a més de qualificar l’espai interior.FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Buildings of new plant for public useGirona Law CourtsEU Mies Award
Award-Winner / WinnerBadalona Sports PavilionEU Mies Award
ShortlistedCan Brians PrisonGirona-Fontajau Municipal Sports Stadium
Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
El nou palau d’esports es troba en una zona esportiva i de lleure de nova creació, situada als límits de la ciutat i enfront del parc de la Devesa, a l’altra banda del riu Onyar. El projecte assumeix la funció de factor organitzador de la futura zona. El desnivell del terreny porta a la creació de dues plantes, de les quals la superior correspon pròpiament a l’ús públic per a espectadors, mentre que la inferior és exclusiva per als esportistes. L’ambivalència entre les façanes nord-oest i sud-est indueix a l’establiment de dues portes d’entrada, si bé es fa prevaler l’accés que dóna al futur parc esportiu. Les grades adopten forma de ferradura, amb capacitat per a 4.350 espectadors, per tal de donar un caràcter específic a la testera, apta per a la col·locació eventual d’un escenari. Les escales d’evacuació es col·loquen als laterals i condueixen directament als dos aparcaments inclinats que flanquegen l’edifici.Houses in Vallvidrera
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart, Desirée Mas
These two single-family houses, despite being two different projects, were built around the same time in Vallvidrera, and with similar design intentions. The steep slope on both sites meant that the homes were thought of on staggered levels, which allowed them to open up to good orientation and views. At the same time, these are two isolated buildings, whose volumetrics partly. respond to the pre-existing buildings that surround them. The primary difference between both projects lies in the façade material, white stucco in one case, exposed brick in the other.Citadines Aparthotel
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
The construction of an aparthotel on the Ramblas in Barcelona poses the challenge of inserting current architecture in a site with strong historical and formal conditions. Two volumes linked through a body with a ground floor and a mezzanine with a commercial passageway order the construction of the irregular plot with façades facing Las Ramblas and Vila de Madrid Square. The building on Las Ramblas assumes the inequality of the heights of the neighbouring partitions and the presence in one of them of the portico of the "loggia" of the old Moja Palace. The low height of the portico and its status as a listed building made it possible to use what should have been a dividing wall as a new façade that rotates and faces the neoclassical façade of Moja Palace, enjoying magnificent views over the roofs of the old town.Premi Ciutat de Barcelona
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and UrbanismCitadines AparthotelCiutadella Campus of the UPF
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
The project tries to resolve the difficult balance between two opposing worlds. On the one hand, the conservation of an old building with severe lines and strong urban implantation, programmed for military activities; on the other, the change of use to a building intended for departmental activities of the University, with the following criteria: 1. Conservation of the exterior façades with the specific modification of the new access. 2. Transformation of the area of the patio and porches into a space of interaction. 3. Changing the patio windows of 1'20x2'10m for ones of 1'80x3'60m, which allow the ventilation of two overlapping offices. 4. Construction of a basement floor under the old courtyard, where the library is located, which is a "cloister" inside another cloister, with the central area lit by skylights.Indústria Social Housing
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
L’encàrrec inicial era la construcció d’un edifici d’habitatges socials amb una altura predeterminada de planta baixa més vuit plantes, adossat a un edifici existent de planta baixa més tres plantes. Degut a la diferència d’altures entre ambdós, es va proposar una modificació del Pla Parcial i la realització d’un edifici aïllat, separat cinc metres de la mitgera i retrassat respecte a l’alineació actual del carrer, amb el què s’aconsegueix independència i una millor lectura del nou edifici en relació al seu entorn immediat. La superfície en planta, un quadrat de 20x20m, permet la distribució de quatre habitatges per replà amb el nucli de comunicacions vertical en el centre i amb els habitatges col·locats de manera que tots gaudeixen de doble orientació amb totes les habitacions ventilant directament a l’exterior. Aquesta disposició en esvàstica, resol en part les imposicions formals per part de la propietat, tals com la forma de les finestres i l’obligació de construir la coberta a quatre aigües. En traslladar l’esvàstica fins la coberta, es crea un joc de volums més interessant i menys rotund del que podria resultar d’una coberta unitària a quatre aigües, en una torre d’aquestes proporcions.Premi Ciutat de Barcelona
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and UrbanismCiutadella Campus of the UPFTecla Sala Dwellings
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
Construction of 150 homes that represent a new front that acts as an intermediary between the immediate urban fabric and the park. A set made up of five isolated and equal buildings, arranged regularly. These blocks clearly indicate the limit of the park and with their alignment they support the urban condition of the street. On the other hand, the gaps between the blocks allow permeability between the street and the park. The trapezoidal floor plan means that all homes have a good view of the green space. The change in elevations in section seeks the appropriate scale of the homes with respect to the park and the Carrer Canigó façade.Dwellings and Offices in Sarrià
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Ribas & Ribas Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart, José Ribas Folguera, José Ribas i González, Francesc Rius i Camps
THE DWELLINGS They are part of a set of buildings intended for housing and offices resulting from the transformation of the old grounds of the R.C.D. Espanyol Football Club. The project arises from the definition of a homogeneous urban piece, but which responds to different volumetric conceptions with different housing options. Large blocks of flats and small multi-family housing buildings provide the appropriate response to the volume of the buildings in the General Mitre Ring Road, Ricardo Villa or Dr. Fleming. THE OFFICES Two buildings, with the 54-metre-high tower taking centre stage, are the reference element on Sarrià Avenue. They are very simple buildings in which the concentration of services allows open floor plans that allow for different distributions of offices. The glazed treatment of the façades, with solar protection overhangs, makes the buildings appear with a great feeling of lightness and transparency.Atrium Cultural and Sports Amenity
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
The complex not only has to consolidate an urban space but completes a large sports and cultural area started with the construction of the new football field. The project consists of a swimming pool, sports centre, theatre and bar-restaurant. Each space functions independently, with both structural and spatial autonomy, but subject to a general order with the aim of giving a unified image to the whole. A longitudinal lobby is proposed, which absorbs the entrances of each of the areas, allows a good view with a single daily access control and at the same time has the appropriate dimension to be able to respond to specific demands of a large influx of public.FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureDwellings and Offices in SarriàNew Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Silvia Barbera, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Lluís Canosa Magret, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart, Francesc Rius i Camps
The new Hospital de Sant Pau is located in the northern triangle of the historic site dominated by the constructions made at the beginning of the century by the architect Domènech i Montaner. The topography and the different urban limits pose two situations: the current entrance to the hospital that faces the Eixample and the Sagrada Família, and the proposed building that faces the layout of the Ronda del Mig. The new hospital consists of two clearly differentiated areas. One contains the program for services and the other one for hospitalisation, linked together by an "intermediary" that acts as a hall. The service building has a façade and is supported on Mas Casanovas Street, assuming the role of building as a plot boundary. The hospital area is formalised as "fingers" of a hand that are inserted into the green space that separates it from the old hospital, achieving a smaller scale of the building and a subtler relationship with the old pavilions.Obra Social Caixa Sabadell Cultural Building
Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart
The headquarters of Caixa Sabadell Social Work takes up two buildings built by the architect Jeroni Martorell between 1908 and 1910 for the Sabadell Industrial School of Arts and Crafts. The first phase proposes the renovation of the old machine room of the industrial school known as the "workshop of the seamstresses" characterised by its sawtooth industrial roof. The project has the largest capacity spaces in this building: an exhibition hall and the new meeting room. There are two large spaces: a newly created one, built eight meters below the old workshop without altering it, which is the new 16m wide event hall (4m wider than the building) with a capacity for 390 spectators. The other one which reforms the old workshops to turn them into an exhibition hall, recovering the zenithal lighting and the interior space of the "shed". At the same time, a new entrance to the complex from the street is proposed, as well as a new hall located between the two buildings with a staircase that seeks to relate the two large spaces. Few materials are used: continuous oil-finished European oak solid plank flooring throughout the building, white-painted plasterboard ceilings and vertical facings in the showroom, and acoustic panel cladding with natural maple veneer finish for the meeting room. The okume wood plywood folding shutters regulate both the lighting and the relationship with the outside garden, allowing various configurations that respond to the different needs of the showroom.Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
ShortlistedNew Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant PauCiutat de Granada-Bolívia Housing for the Elderly, Social Centre and Primary Healthcare Centre
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Peris+Toral Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart, Marta Peris Eugenio, José Manuel Toral Fernández
The priority of the project is to make the differentiated operation of the spaces of the building and their fit in the particular urban volume of the environment compatible. In a broad view of the territory, the relevance of the plot to 22@ requires the construction of a building for the 21st century Barcelona, in an area of the city that changes the traditional volume of the Eixample. In a closer look, the building will be part of an attic in which the formal prominence of the Agbar tower is imposed and the presence of two more buildings, the volumes of which, as in the neighbouring attic, are not continued on the Diagonal Avenue’s façade and are presented as detached buildings oriented on the sea-mountain axis. From a functional point of view, the building must assume the programmatic complexity, through a unitary building and accommodate three entities of different consideration (primary medical centre, social centre and sheltered housing), where the public or private character are issues to consider. We propose a unitary building, a mixture of different volumes. A two-storey plinth supported on the streets of Ciutat de Granada and Bolívia, contains the outbuildings for the primary medical centre and the social centre, and at the same time will support the three volumes for housing. Its distribution in the form of a fan is essential to solve the sun of the houses and to understand and complete the plot. Thus, the new building, despite its smaller size, is not only able to "rebalance" the prominence of the Agbar tower within the plot, but, through the sequence of voids and full, manages to establish a dialogue with the buildings of the neighbouring plot. The order of the façade continues to disappear, and a volumetric "new order" is imposed, permeable between the street and the interior of the block.Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
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