The architecture studio Sau Taller d’Arquitectura has received the Comarcas de Gerona 2020 Architecture Award with a Mention in Interiors for the rehabilitation project developed at Casa San Daniel.

The main objective of the housing reform and extension project has been to improve living conditions through the use of economic actions with low environmental impact.
The project proposal by Sau Taller d’Arquitectura derives from the work carried out transversely on the facades, where the result is an elongation in the visuals and reducing the circulation areas.

The housing program is organized in a space 3.75m wide by 12m long, where two interior patios allow the relationship and visual connection between the rooms while guaranteeing good climatic behavior in the house.
 

Description of project by Sau Taller d’Arquitectura

The main aim of the reform is to improve the conditions of habitability through low-cost measures with a minimal environmental impact.

The challenge to organise the functional program of a room with width of 3.75m and depth of 12m derives from working transversely on the façades, with a sequential organisation of the areas, making circulation areas disappear while lengthening visuals.

Emptying the initial volume from the two, interior courtyards, permits new visuals between areas, providing natural light to all the rooms and guaranteeing a good climatic behaviour: crossed ventilation, Venturi effect...

All the materials used, such as the wooden structure for the roof, the new slabs, isolation of wooden fibre, enclosures of pine. As well as indoor claddings of fir and the paintings, have a negligible impact and are not harmful.

The result is a raw architecture, neutral and well suited for the place, letting the user, the objects and the time give their own character.

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Private.
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157.44 sqm.
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2019.
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Sant Daniel, Girona, Spain.
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SAU Taller d´Arquitectura is a multigenerational and multidisciplinary architecture studio born in Sant Joan de les Abadesses and is currently also established in Barcelona and Puigcerdà. Their professional activity encompasses projects of planning, landscape, architecture and product design. The main objective is to provide an efficient response to the challenges posed by each project, making functionality and rationality the main pillars of our professional practice.

Simplicity and constructive austerity are an added value of their projects. Projects committed to the environment and tradition and designed to make life easier for its users without renouncing the emotional capacity of the architecture itself.

They understand the project from its entirety. Let us suppose, therefore, key aspects such as the structural calculation, facilities or the energy and climate control of our projects and introduced them from the beginning of the project process.

They have structured the team in three areas of work: productive area, which is responsible for responding to the administrative aspects of each project; Creative area, that works the aspects more related to the technical, formal and functional result of the proposals, and the area of ​​work management, that looks for the correct execution and operation of the construction process.

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