Sau House. Emergency Scenography

unparelld'arquitectes
Involved architects (3)
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Involved architects
Eduard Callís Freixas
Guillem Moliner Milhau
Quim Domene i Berga

Demolitions are repeated in the historic centre of Olot. For different reasons, the same consequences: abandoned plots, loss of urbanity, disfigurement of the street, destruction of the ordinary landscape. Half of Can Sau, in front of the side façade of the church of the patron saint, was affected by the alignment of the road. The remaining site, dominated by a party wall and four stepped buttresses, remains empty.

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It is buildable, but there is no management in sight. In response to a request for a paving project and an ongoing contract for a sheet metal rainwater partition, the order was reformulated. It is urgent to allocate resources vertically in order to make the space more urban, as well as guaranteeing the watertightness of the party wall.

José Hevia
José Hevia

In the compact city, façades take on the responsibility of giving form and character to the street. A scene of urgency is built with hollow bricks that completes what the buttresses insinuate, leaving the traces of domestic activity marked on the party wall in the background. A construction of three vaults and four niches offers itself to the public space as a porous façade, accompanied by a minimal grandstand. It is an unfinished and appropriable structure. The visual artist Quim Domene subsequently intervened in the niches, with allegorical elements from the history of the neighbourhood. The Tura church, confined between narrow streets, now gains a public space, presided over by the blinded door of the 15th century church.

José Hevia

General information

Sau House. Emergency Scenography

YEAR

2019

Status

Built

Option to visit

Free visit

Address

St. Can Sau. Valls Nous, 1

17800 Olot - Girona

Latitude: 42.182245998

Longitude: 2.4915263176

Classification

Building materials

Brick

Construction system

Load-bearing walls and hollow brick vaults.

Built area

1 - 500 m²

Awards

FAD 2020

XV BEAU

XII BIAU

Involved architects

Eduard Callís Freixas

Guillem Moliner Milhau

Quim Domene i Berga

Collaborators

Servicios técnicos municipales (Health and safety coordination)

Sara Palmada (Project team)

Amaia López (Structure calculation)

Xevi Rodeja (Project and site team)

Clàudia Calvet (Project and site team)

Sergi Jiménez (Project team)

Involved architectural firms

unparelld'arquitectes

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Catalan-Architects

XV BEAU

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