Rehabilitation of Can Negre

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Address: Pl. Catalunya, s/n; Sant Joan Despí
Other Appellations: Jujol - Can Negre Centre; Barcelona headquarters of the Architects' Association of Catalonia, Baix Llobregat
Category: Building
Typology: Single-family Dwellings
Museums / Artistic Spaces
Construccions Agropequàries / Masies
Palaus / Cases Senyorials
Protection Category: BCIN (Bé Cultural d'Interès Nacional)

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Can Negre was a farmhouse, which Jujol renovated between 1914 and 1926, at the behest of the family.

The refurbishment focused especially on the façade, the staircase and the chapel. In the first, Jujol gives examples of a global and quite detailed conception of his work, while showing an obvious respect for the existing façade by maintaining the openings that explain the interior wall compartmentalisation.

The exercise he carried out on the main façade clearly shows his intentions, which were collected in a single project drawing.

Different rows of flat tiles are added to emphasise the undulating curve of the cornice. Another small cornice is also introduced, which includes that of the side façade. Two side tribunes appear flanking the main tribune which evokes the shape of a float. This one, with meticulous forging work, has two "legs" that rest on either side of the main door, making it even more prominent.

There is also an effort to compensate for the imbalance in the original building, with the placement of a covered gallery, as if it were a semi-detached house, and with the use of polychromy on the façade.

For Jujol, the black house has a special religious significance as well as tradition and popular culture, and that is why he strives to show the transfiguration of an anonymous and conventional element into another with a strong presence of the architect's hand.

Author: Manuel Julià

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Josep Llobet i Gelmà

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Can Negre

Josep Maria Jujol Gibert

Jujol approaches the refurbishment of a baroque farmhouse with the intention of changing its aesthetic parameters, of the utmost importance for the modernist culture that goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. The most relevant interventions in the interior are reduced to the chapel and the staircase. Jujol maintains the entire existing wall system, as well as the layout of the openings. He puts all the emphasis on the transfiguration of the main façade, which is explained in a single project drawing that reflects its intention well enough. More rows of flat tiles, all of them different, are added to the wavy cornice. The two side windows on the first floor become two symmetrical tribunes, which flank a new central tribune that evokes the shape of a float, made with delicate iron work and with an unprecedented system of glazed openings. The façade plan is divided by polychrome spots tending to unify the resulting dissymmetry.
Rehabilitation of Can Negre

Josep Llobet i Gelmà

Can Negre was a farmhouse, which Jujol renovated between 1914 and 1926, at the behest of the family. The refurbishment focused especially on the façade, the staircase and the chapel. In the first, Jujol gives examples of a global and quite detailed conception of his work, while showing an obvious respect for the existing façade by maintaining the openings that explain the interior wall compartmentalisation. The exercise he carried out on the main façade clearly shows his intentions, which were collected in a single project drawing. Different rows of flat tiles are added to emphasise the undulating curve of the cornice. Another small cornice is also introduced, which includes that of the side façade. Two side tribunes appear flanking the main tribune which evokes the shape of a float. This one, with meticulous forging work, has two "legs" that rest on either side of the main door, making it even more prominent. There is also an effort to compensate for the imbalance in the original building, with the placement of a covered gallery, as if it were a semi-detached house, and with the use of polychromy on the façade. For Jujol, the black house has a special religious significance as well as tradition and popular culture, and that is why he strives to show the transfiguration of an anonymous and conventional element into another with a strong presence of the architect's hand.

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Patrimoni recuperat al Baix Llobregat
per Jelena Prokopljević

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