Until the time Eusebi Guëll moved his textile factory there and established a workers’ colony with the help of Gaudí, Santa Coloma de Cervelló was just a farming village on the banks of the Llobregat, and its modest past is still evidenced by the old town hall: a mid-19th-century building which had since served countless uses and languished in the heart of the locality because of poor maintenance. With the idea of restoring it as a municipal facility, the interior was renovated with a high degree of freedom, given that only its actual construction system was worth preserving. It was decided that the original masonry walls should be kept bare to reveal their stratifications, which engage harmoniously with the new panels of cement-wood and the screens of acoustic brick that clad the inner side of the facades to insulate them better. As the only accent in the deferential material palette, the vertical circulation core around which various multipurpose rooms pivot was executed with raw concrete, which results in a certain continuity between the two levels...[+]