Deconstructing to enhance. Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir
26/09/2019.
[Callús - BCN] Spain
metalocus, RAMIRO PÉREZ TOLEDO
metalocus, RAMIRO PÉREZ TOLEDO
Spanish architecture and desing studio Puig · Mir were in charge of the renovation of this church and rectory, built in the year 1800 from the remains of a 13th century parish church. The intervention removed additions that masked the Romanesque façade of the church, and added a new slender annex that contrasts with the church's thick stone walls.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
The exterior before the renovation. Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
The interior before the renovation. Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
The interior after the renovation. Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir. Photograph by Carles Puig.
Ground floor plan. Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir.
Basement plan. Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir.
Roof plan. Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir.
Section. Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir.
Elevation. Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir.
Elevation. Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir.
Axonometric drawings. Godmar Rectory by Puig · Mir.
Puig · Mir architects intended to enhance the value of this historic compound, and to do so, they decided to remove the "elements without any value that denatured the original volume". This meant partly tearing down an addition to the church, leaving the walls in place to create an enlosed courtyard.
The surface of the deconstructed space is reproduced in a new volume, wrapped in an enclosure made of V-shaped steel profiles. This not only reinforces the lightness of the addition, but also supports its structure.
A third volume with a wooden exterior completes the composition, complementing the stone and steel in colour and texture and allowing it to be read as a distinct added box.
The surface of the deconstructed space is reproduced in a new volume, wrapped in an enclosure made of V-shaped steel profiles. This not only reinforces the lightness of the addition, but also supports its structure.
A third volume with a wooden exterior completes the composition, complementing the stone and steel in colour and texture and allowing it to be read as a distinct added box.
Description of project by Puig · Mir
The ancient church of Callús was built on a primitive Romanesque church documented from the 10th century. Together with the neighboring castle of Godmar, they were the center of the collective life of the town until the end of the 19th century, when the activity of the textile industry consolidated the new settlement along the banks of the river Cardener. Neglect and disaffection to the cult, confined uses of the church in prison during the Civil War, and later as a pig farm for decades.
This millennial journey has added many additions to the original built volumes, producing confused overlaps that masked the old Romanesque façade of the church.
Our concept of action is based on the deconstruction of the elements without any value and denatures the original volume. This emptying strategy clears new relationships between the parts of the existing construction, affirming them, showing their particular spatial and material character.
Planting a tree in the new patio founds the new center of gravity of the whole, marking the passage of the seasons from the same "interior" of the building.
This emptying operation of the obsolete construction exchanges its surface into a new building, bounded to the same de-built surface. Form and material of this new construction is related to the old buildings and their natural environment, while responding also to the application of passive energy systems and recovery of natural resources: rainwater storage, sun protection and cross ventilation, among other variables.
The choice of a laminar V-shaped profile shapes the outer skin of the new enclosures. This exterior layer does not only define skin, but supports the inner structure. The geometric arrangement of the profiles allows changing aspects depending on the point of view and the time of day. As the new volume approaches its extremes, it is lightened and de-massified, filtering light and air. The result is a slender steel construction that contrasts with the massive and thick stone annexed.
The body that houses the services, facing north, is cladded with wood, creating an association with the old stone and the slenderness of the steel, allowing a clear reading of the different volumes.
The built-up set is no longer the accumulation of a confused monolithic conglomerate, but a sum of structures with its own identity.
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Authors
Puig · Mir - Architect.- Carles Puig. Interior designer.- Maria Antonia Mir.
Collaborators
Architects.- Maria Forteza, Laia Girbau. Engineering.- Arc bcn. Structure.- Base Dos. Technical architect.- Enric Vijande. Lighting designer.- Jordi Moya (ILM bcn). Landscape gardening.- Sans Jardiners.
Contractor
AS3
Dates
Project.- 2010-2016. Construction.- Phase 1 (Rectory demolition).- 2015. Phase 2 (Actions in front of church and interior church).- 2015. Phase 3 (Multipurpose Pavilion).- 2016-17
Location
Callús, Bages, Barcelona, Spain.
Photography
Carles Puig
Carles Puig + María Antonia Mir Puig · Mir
Puig · Mir, is an architecture and space design office based in Barcelona, founded by architect Carles Puig and interior designer Maria Antònia Mir. Since then, they have written projects from their initial conceptualization to their final work detail.
Their aim is to achieve pleasant living & working environments without any concession to superfluity and with a maximum economy of means. The result is an optimal balance between users needs, economy and environment.
Their projects have been selected finalists in the FAD Awards and in the Biennial of Spanish Architecture, among other distinctions.
Their aim is to achieve pleasant living & working environments without any concession to superfluity and with a maximum economy of means. The result is an optimal balance between users needs, economy and environment.
Their projects have been selected finalists in the FAD Awards and in the Biennial of Spanish Architecture, among other distinctions.
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