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1964 - 1966
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Premià de Dalt Sports Complex
Brullet - De Luna Arquitectes, Manuel Brullet i Tenas, Alfonso de Luna Colldefors
Located in a magnificent landscape on the first mountainous foothills of the Maresme, its shape and dimension are related to the gentle profiles of the surrounding geography. The sports centre is conceived as a defined and compact volume, placed on the slope and with its own part embedded in it. Located at the western end of the plot, it presides over the set of facilities and offers a clear image of the open access from the street. The resolution of the roof, made of galvanised sheet, obeys a curvilinear guideline that gives unity to its profile and relates it to the softness of the hills that surround Premià. This guideline is repeated in an inverted manner inside, so that a large north-facing window is obtained that illuminates the playing court. On the north side, the land connects with a paved inclined plane on which three large skylights appear that illuminate the dressing rooms on the lower floor. The level of public access from the street is maintained by traversing the building until reaching the bleachers, which become a large, elevated viewpoint with views of the sea and the landscape. The intense light from the south is controlled by juxtaposing a low body containing the bleachers and the main spectator passage. The existing trees (carob trees, almond trees and olive trees) that are preserved and incorporated into the planned urbanisation. A space connected to the changing rooms and the entrance from the outside is reserved where a gym will be located. On the outside, the concrete of the exposed structure, the brick headers and the glass of the windows make up the façades.1990 - 1994
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20th century
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B House
The plot has a marked slope that conditions the layout of the house. The first line of pines, parallel to the access street, remains intact, while the house adapts to the topography at different levels through a succession of folds that follow the orography of the contour lines. The house is made up of a single space where the vertical planes, with their changes of direction, expand or compress a horizontal route where the various rooms are generated, while, vertically, narrow sections of stairs run along the walls of containment, they are attached to the façade planes or supported by specific perforations in the slabs in order to save the different levels. An elongated tray with a broken perimeter houses the main floor, raised on inclined stilts that simulate the irregular verticality of forest trunks. A final half-open lower level hosts the most playful activities.1997 - 2003
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Cotet Primary Healthcare Centre
AIS Grupo, BAAS Arquitectura, Jordi Badia i Rodríguez, Jero Gutiérrez, Francesc Sandalinas
The project originates from the desire to qualify the interior space and to integrate naturally into the scale of the surroundings. The entire programme is located at street level, in a scheme of two rows of consulting rooms framing a higher room that receives light from the north through a tall window. It consists of a classical volume with three naves, in the manner of a chapel, where the gaze is directed towards the sky. From the outside, the building gives very few clues about its interior space and is shielded from the road by its opacity, responding to the needs of privacy of the equipment. The access route is gradual, inviting calm. A porch welcomes the visitor in a welcoming gesture, extending the street, where a long bench allows the visitor to rest and breathe fresh air in the shade. At the end of the route, a sloping wall leads you into the nave, accompanying you gently, to discover the richness and light of the interior with some surprise. The materials used are the traditional ones of the place: ceramic brick for the walls and the back, concrete in its most austere state and varnished pine wood. All of this was built by local craftsmen with the clear intention of lasting over time. Inside, the material and thickness of the walls favour thermal inertia which, as has always been the case in traditional architecture, favours a more temperate climate. The building is protected from the sun and ventilated naturally by opening the tall windows to the north, cooling and renewing all the air inside.2022