Initially conceived as a house on a podium, to which floors were added with the aim of accommodating a hotel, the building was turned into a geriatric residence, and then abandoned for thirteen years. The original idea of the project involved demolit
The project is located in La Joncosa del Montmell, in the comarca of Baix Penedés, where the old vineyards come together on the interior slopes of the massif that lends its name to the municipality. At the end of a pleasant promenade from the town c
The preventive detention center of Reus, built in 1929, was turned into a school in 1979. Establishing a dialogue between different layers of time and different strata of hidden constructions, the intervention carried out by Josep Ferrando Architect
As part of the 2021 celebration of A Cel Obert, a festival of ephemeral architecture held in Tortosa (Tarragona), this monumental-scale, over 6-meter-high lamp is the work of the architects Manuel Bouzas and Santiago del Águila, in collaboration with
In the historic center of Gratallops, a municipality of Tarragona province, amid narrow streets and houses between party walls, a winery with a built area of 1,289 square meters adapts to its L-shaped plot. With walls as thick as 1.75 meters at most,
The Catalan practices of Asun Vidal Layel (AVL Arquitectura) and Antoni Bou i Moncús worked together in renovating two buildings in the historical center of Tarragona. Connected on the ground floor, they harbor a total of eight apartments. The interv
Carmelo Zappulla of External Reference Architects and Chu Uroz renovated this liquor store in a 700-square-meter space located at kilometer 1187 along the N-340 road leading from Vendrell to Comarruga, in the Lower Penedes region. With verbal informa
The first phase of the project to transform the large urban vacuum of 6,000 m² into a new public space consists in building a structure of corrugated steel rods that restore the geometry of the original cavea through its guidelines and generatrices..
In the year 2011, Tarragona was chosen as the host city for the 18th edition of the Mediterranean Games. Located in the new olympic ring west of the city, the Palau d’Esports Catalunya – with capacity for 5.000 spectators – was one of the main venues
The program is organized in two differentiated volumes: one has a ground level plus two, housing classrooms, administration, offices, library, dining room, and kitchen; and the other is a one-level volume with a gymnasium and dressing rooms. The main
Destroyed in the Battle of the Ebro in 1938, the town church of Corbera d’Ebre became an icon of what the population had to endure. It has now been transformed into a multipurpose hall, but in a way that preserves the memory of the Spanish Civil War,
The house goes up on a hillock in the coastal mountain range of Les Gavarres in Tarragona (Catalonia), surrounded by a typically Mediterranean landscape. This location and the features of the site determine both the organization of the program and th
Salou is on the southern coast of Tarragona. The Prades Mountains run parallel to the coastline at some 25 kilometers, and the humid air from the sea meets the range and is condensed in the form of rain that falls on the steep mountain slopes and wat
Located by the Ebro River, this building’s objective is to give a friendly image of the nuclear power station in the town of Ascó, Tarragona. The interpretation center will welcome around 3.000 visitors per year, which will receive information about
Esta intervención de acupuntura urbana consiste en una pieza texturada tendida como un puente que une un antiguo mercado rehabilitado y una pequeña plaza pública.
As an acupuncture exercise, the different camping models are positioned on the site as if they were catalysts. These models will perform as interaction platforms for workers and visitors of the delta…
In the small town of Casas de Alcanar, south of the delta of the Ebro River, in a rich agricultural land where the farm fields stretch out until they meet the sea, a plot of quite unique dimensions (it measures 250 meters in length and 18 meters in w
When it comes to building by the sea, keeping the views of the horizon as clear as possible becomes the main concern on defining the spatial organization. In Comarruga, a coastal site of Tarragona that belongs to the municipality of El Vendrell, a pr
Inthe north of the city of Tarragona, the campus of Sant Pere de Sescelades extends its facilities and so consolidates the presence of the University Rovira i Virgili in the capital, where it already has eight academic centers – aside from another tw
El emplazamiento de la guardería forma parte de una manzana trapezoidal y grandes dimensiones (200 x 300 metros), en el que ya existen otros equipamientos y se construirán más que formarán un conjunto heterogéneo de instalaciones deportivas, jardín d
The new town hall stands on a parcel at the west end of the block that closes off the south side of the church square. The parcel is the sum of three smaller ones that were occupied by the original town hall and the two buildings that flanked it. To
During the fifties, with its period of isolation over, Spain resumed its interest in international architecture. Public and private sectors dissociated themselves from the nostalgic mood that had dominated the country after the Civil War. The reemerg
The architecture here - the bulk of the new building - is a result, on one hand, of the archaeological condition of the site, and on the other hand, of the need to establish good relations with the existing surroundings. All this implied respecting
