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House in La Garrotxa, Spain : Residence in Girona
Property in La Garrotxa – design by Mateo Arquitectura
14 Jun 2012
Reconstruction of an old country mansion, Garrotxa, Girona, Spain
Design: Mateo Arquitectura
Date built: 2010
Location: Catalunya, España
House in La Garrotxa
photo © Adrià Goula
This Spanish architectural project involved the reconstruction of an old country mansion in La Garrotxa, Girona. Garrotxa is a comarca (county) in Girona, Catalonia. Its population in 2016 was 56,000, more than half of them in the capital city of Olot.
The retaining wall to the rear that anchors the house to the hillside was extremely lovely. As well as expressing the effort of retaining the earth, it concentrated in one place the oven and the point of collection of the water that filters through it.
photos © Adrià Goula
‘Earth, water, fire.
The entire intervention gravitates around it.
The rest is white, untainted, abstract. The preceding trilogy is joined by air.’
by Josep Lluís Mateo, architects
photos © Adrià Goula
House in Girona – Building Information
Project Name: Vilar Project
Architect: Mateo Arquitectura
Project: Reconstruction of an old country Mansion
Location: La Vall de Bianya, Girona, Spain
Surface: 500 sqm
Contractor: Puig Alder
House in La Garrotxa, Girona, images / information from Mateo Arquitectura
Location: La Garrotxa, Girona, Spain, southwestern Europe
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The Province of Girona is located in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered on the northwest by the province of Lleida and on the southwest by the province of Barcelona. To the north is France, and to the east is the Mediterranean Sea.
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