Anna & Eugeni Bach Bayona Studio Alba Colomer Jaume Bach Bach arquitectes   Spain   A joint work of the architects Jaume Bach, Anna Bach, Eugeni Bach, Xevi Bayona, and Alba Colomer, with the collaboration, too, of the civil engineer Lluís Pauné, this urban intervention emphasizes the geometry of boundaries between what are known as

unparelld’arquitectes   Spain   If the French Impressionists immortalized refined petite bourgeoisie luncheons on the grass, many Spaniards followed suit with a more folksy flavor. The Catalan artists Ramón Casas and Santiago Rusiñol painted merry get-togethers with food and frolic

unparelld’arquitectes   Spain   The core of Olot has the same problem that many historical towns have to contend with: the indiscriminate demolitions that result in empty lots going abandoned, disfiguring the street and ultimately destroying the urban decorum of public space. In th

Ramón Sanabria   The New hospital of Olot is on the outskirts of the city, on the boundary between the urban center and the forest landscape of La Garrotxa, in Girona. The building blends with the topography, which descends towards the Ridaura River banks. The uneven

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   The studio of RCR Arquitectes in Olot, Gerona, has been under transformation over more than one decade. In 2004 the architects bought the old Barberí foundry building, then in ruins, with the objective of transforming it gradually into a workspace th

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   Opening on to a garden, life in this residence is freely distributed through a series of platforms which appropriate the void left by the walls and the roof of an old construction.

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   At a crossroads between architecture, minimalist sculpture and landscaping, the marquee of Restaurant Les Cols generates a rich interior atmosphere through common materials.

Lluís Clotet Ignacio Paricio Clotet & Paricio Abeba Arquitectes   Spain   The building, of a single floor, takes up 266 of the 1,334 square meters of the total area of the plot, located in a residential neighborhood of the 1950s. The plot, however, was not large enough to isolate the house from the neighboring ones, and th

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   If the Les Cols restaurant showed how the interior of a farmhouse could be transformed with steel and glass, the project to build five pavilions for evening rest intends, through the use of pure forms, to achieve the superposition of textures and abs

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   The main objective of this house, lying on the hillside of one of the volcanoes of Olot, is to offer its tenants good views and, at the same time, obtain as much surface on ground floor as possible and as much garden space as possible. To achieve th

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   An old and walled in farmhouse was the place chosen for a new restaurant, with a design that combines metaphors of the rural and the culinary world. Three warehouses placed along a basilica-type floor plan have undergone a meticulous refurbishment, b

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   The River Fluvià begins in the mountains of Collsacabra, south of the city of Olot, and flows into the Mediterranean, in the Ampurdán marshlands, after covering seventy kilometers through the region of La Garrotxa.Almost hidden amid the poplars, the

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   A captivating landscape asks for a panoramic house. This house, suspended and calm, looks over the views from its vantage point on the edges of Olot. Access is through a void between the two parallel volumes of the project. The void crosses the hou

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   With laws of its own a garden stages fragments of nature in a delimited space. A plot of land between the old cart path that connected Olot with Santa Pau and the new traffic thoroughfare that covers the same distance now performs as the gate to the

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   Immerse in one of the exceptional natural spots common to the province of Gerona, the town of Olot is particularly careful when it comes to its expansion on the surrounding areas in order to avoid destroying on its growth that which constitutes one

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   Though Cuca de Llum might sound like the name of a faraway country from a fairytale, it is actually the Catalan word for glowworms, most commonly called fireflies. This is also the suggestive name of this house on the outskirts of Olot, clad in a smo

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   If the restaurant Les Cols already served as an example of how glass and steel can transform the interior of an old farmhouse into a chimeric space, somewhere between the rural world and cosmopolitan sophistication, the project for the construction o

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   Land architecture, but also architecture of the land. After three decades of work, Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta have obtained universal recognition for a stubbornly local oeuvre: the most media-savvy award of them all has distinguish

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The architecture of Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta combines romantic rauxa with rational rigor. Based in Olot, the capital of La Garrotxa – a Pre-Pyrenean region in Catalonia, filled with extinct volcanoes and pleasant landscapes that h

The direction that the Pritzker Prize seemed to have marked by honoring the likes of Alejandro Aravena and Shigeru Ban in the last cycles gave no inkling that this year’s winner would be RCR, a trio whose radical architecture, a priori, does not tall

La localidad catalana de Olot, y más concretamente, su Club de Patinaje Artístico —pentacampeón mundial en la modalidad Grupo Show— cuenta con nuevas instalaciones; una pista cubierta de patinaje sobre ruedas y un pabellón polideportivo, firmados por

Carlos Jiménez   Aranda Pigem Vilalta – RCR Arquitectes – are magicians of mineral and natural discoveries. Their architecture conjures sensual intimations, refractions, and densities from the most elemental material conditions, whether a single sheet of Cor-ten stee

Richard Ingersoll   They did not gag or blind-fold me, but for two days I was a guest of a group of architectural extremists, in the lost horizon of Olot. This small city rests amid the remains of a few extinct volcanoes at the foot of the Pyrenees between Catalonia and

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The architecture of RCR (Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramón Vilalta) combines romantic rauxa with rational rigor. Based in Olot, the capital of La Garrotxa – a Pre-Pyrenean region in Catalonia, filled with extinct volcanoes and pleasant landscapes

The Vallés architecture school brought together the Catalans Rafael Aranda (1961), Carme Pigem (1962) and Ramón Vilalta (1960), three 1987 graduates who, withdrawn from the Olympic impulse that boosted the careers of their Barcelona colleagues, have