The owners, a couple with two children, wanted a house needing practically no maintenance, with a lot of privacy as well as a good relationship with the garden all year round, and with a large workspace. Only the sun, the geometry of the plot (almost
The project involved renovating two constructions raised late in the 19th century in the Rec neighborhood of Igualada, near Barcelona, that contained a small textile factory and a residence. The area, once industrial, is undergoing an urban transform
A work of Enric Batlle, Joan Roig, and Iván Sánchez, the track called the Camino de las Guixeres is part of a larger project for the Igualada Green Ring, the objective of which is to generate a series of footpaths and bicycle lanes around the city’s
The park is located where the railway station of Igualada used to be, at the end of Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer Avenue, on a site bound by three streets with a steep slope between them. The urban conditions determined the organization of the project. On t
Going up the hillside one reaches the excavation which houses the cemetery. A cemetery in a pit, laid out as a quarry in the open. The wound on the ground preserves the feeling of a neglected quarry, whose slopes crumble with the passage of time unde
Arnau Rovira shares his photographs of the municipal cemetery of Igualada (Barcelona), a work of Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós, completed in the 1990s. The rites of passage between life and death are acted out on a stage where architecture blends wi
Hacer una casa con jardín en una ciudad jardín es el reto que los barceloneses Manuel Bailo y Rosa Rull han asumido en este proyecto, construido en Igualada (Barcelona), en la que una pérgola estructural resuelve la transición entre el espacio interi
