The Godmar Rectory

Puig·Mir (2)
Puig·Mir
Carles Puig Soler
Maria Antònia Mir Moragues

The old church of Callús was built on the site of a primitive Romanesque church documented from the 10th century. Together with the neighbouring castle of Godmar, they were the centre of the town's collective life until the end of the 19th century, when the activity of the textile industry consolidated the new settlement along the banks of the Cardener River There was neglect and disaffection towards worship, and confined uses of the church in prison during the Civil War, and later as a pig farm for decades. This millennial journey has added many additions to the original built volumes, producing confusing overlaps that masked the ancient Romanesque façade of the church.

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Our concept of action is based on the deconstruction of worthless elements and the denaturalisation of the original volume. This strategy of emptying clears new relations between the parts of the existing construction, affirming, showing its particular spatial and material character.

Godmar Rectory - Carles Puig
Godmar Rectory - Carles Puig

Planting a tree in the new courtyard establishes the new centre of gravity of the whole, marking the passing of the seasons from the very "inside" of the building. This operation of emptying the obsolete building exchanges its surface into a new building, limited to the same unstructured surface. The form and material of this new construction are related to the old buildings and their natural environment, while also responding to the application of passive energy systems and the recovery of natural resources. The built ensemble is no longer the accumulation of a confused monolithic conglomerate, but a sum of structures with their own identity.

Godmar Rectory - Carles Puig

General information

The Godmar Rectory

YEAR

2017

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit by appointment

Address

Pth. Cementeri,

08262 Callus - Barcelona

Latitude: 41.794708193

Longitude: 1.7806470525

Classification

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

XIV BEAU

FAD 2018

Involved architects

Carles Puig Soler

Maria Antònia Mir Moragues

Collaborators

Laia Girbau Canet (architect)

Maria Forteza Ferrer (architect)

Involved architectural firms

Puig·Mir

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