Renovation of Casa Mas

José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects (2)
José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects
Elías Torres Tur
José Antonio Martínez Lapeña

Listed house on the corner of two narrow streets in the Roman quarter of Barcelona. It is probably a quarter of a larger dwelling in the old Jewish quarter. The street façades had been restored in the 1960s and could not be modified.

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José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects

Its four floors above street level were remodelled, reused and added to from the 14th to the 19th century, and withstood some earthquakes. The main purpose of the renovation is to recover part of the original courtyard, by demolishing the added slabs that concealed it, and to consolidate the interior structure.

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José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects

A lift alongside a staircase provides the rooms with a new functional organisation. The new interior partitions are positioned diagonally to the stone walls like furniture. The twin Gothic windows are now separate from the interior and displayed like objects in a giant glass case, while the rooms are about two metres from the building opposite.

First floor - José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects
Ground floor - José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects

A steel staircase linking the ground and first floor mimics the staircases of medieval palaces and rescues an imaginary presence of the house's original staircase. Separated from the walls, the staircase seems to float in the courtyard, although it is attached to the pavement and the vertical walls with steel bars.

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The triangular studio rises up from one corner of the roof, of the same family as the buildings on the other neighbouring roofs, from which the Gothic bell towers of the neighbourhood can be seen.

General information

Renovation of Casa Mas

YEAR

2000

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit from public roads

Address

St. de Salomó ben Adret, 6

08002 Barcelona - Barcelona

Latitude: 41.382594418

Longitude: 2.1759706156

Classification

Built area

1 - 500 m²

Awards

FAD 2001

Involved architects

Elías Torres Tur

José Antonio Martínez Lapeña

Collaborators

Mauricio Díaz (Technical architect)

TRIOBRA, PRABA (Construction company)

Ana Moreno (Technical architect)

STATIC - Gerardo Rodríguez (Structure)

Involved architectural firms

José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects

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Website links

Renovation of the Mas House - José Antonio Martínez Lapeña & Elías Torres Architects

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