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Can Gallart
Manuel Joaquim Raspall i Mayol
Isolated garden-city typology building. It uses the unevenness of the plot and has different heights at the front and at the back. The street façade consists of a ground floor and an attic, while the rear façade has three floors. It has a complex plan with protruding rectangular bodies and a composite roof. A small tower with a roof on two sides protrudes from the façade. It has forges with sinuous work. The house is painted white and has ceramic decoration with alternations of white and blue forming horizontal stripes. The roof follows the same combination. There is a ceramic medallion with the Virgin and Child scene. El Figaró is a town with a tradition of summering since the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, boosted by the existence of the railway that facilitates access from Barcelona. Its aesthetic is close to Noucentisme although it uses some elements of Modernist typology. The exact dating of the house and its author are unknown.1908
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1921
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Casa Orpí
Martorell-Bohigas, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina
This holiday home is situated on a very high plot of land in El Figaró, with extraordinary views over the entire Congost valley. The slope, the sunlight and the views recommended building a linear house following the contour lines. The earthworks required to place the house and the garage were used to the maximum by covering both buildings with a "Catalan-style" roof terrace, which practically creates the only two flat spaces in the entire garden. These roof terraces seamlessly join the terrain and only the rocks and the natural vegetation serve as a boundary between them. Most of the walls are made using the traditional technique of the region: masonry with ordinary stone and pieces of brick, with the corners also made of brick. Outside, in addition to the masonry, concrete has been used in the railings, in the protection of the guides of the sliding shutters and in the stops of these shutters. Where the concrete had to be subsequently drilled to secure the metal railing, a caramel-coloured glazed ceramic piece was superimposed at a 45º angle to cover the hole and the damage to the concrete. All the carpentry in the building, both inside and outside, is made of pine varnished in its natural colour. The flooring is made of hydraulic mosaic pieces alternating between black and white. All the furniture is from the normal series manufactured by "Best-form", "Aresta" and "H-muebles", or belongs to the popular crafts of Catalonia. The interior walls are either made of masonry or plastered and painted in white tempera, except for the central volume of the fireplace, which is Pompeian red. The electrical installations on the masonry walls are not embedded in iron pipes. All the landscaping has been done with the attempt to leave the mountain almost in its natural state.1962