Arimon House

ARIMON HOUSE

García-Durán & Equipo

Arimon House
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Arimon House
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METAL WORK
Juan Canadell Lleonart

FURNITURE
Estanislau Puig

CONSTRUCTION
H2o Constructora / Estanislao Puig

STRUCTURAL CALCULATION
Oriol Palou

AUTHOR ARCHITECT
Marc García-durán Huet

TEXT
Placid García-planas, Correspondent For La Vanguardia

DESIGN TEAM
Simone Branchini, Gabriela Castellanos , Roger Mermi

MANUFACTURERS
Simes, Cement Design, Crisell

ROOF RESTORATION
Cristina Martí

AREA
700 m²

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Spain

CATEGORY
Houses

Arimon House
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Interior renovation of the Arimon house in Sabadell, for Plàcid Garcia-Planas.

Special emphasis was placed on the restoration of the different layers of history and the integration of contemporary comfort.

OUR CLIENT WROTE

Architecture is essentially the search for light. And this is what the architect Marc García-Durán did in the renovation of our old family home.

Arimon House
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Arimon House
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The house was originally built by the architect, urban planner and mathematician Josep Oriol i Bernadet in 1858.

It was completely renovated in a modernist style by Josep Renom i Costa in 1911 and partially renovated by Santiago Casulleras i Forteza in 1945.

In 2008 Marta Domenel and Núria Bartomeu designed the handrail of the main staircase.

Arimon House
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Arimon House
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Arimon House
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In an amazing dialogue with the architects who preceded him, Marc García-Durán has cut walls with his drawing pen and stripped staircase structures.

Not to create new spaces or rediscover old spaces. But rather to create while rediscovering. To dilute the hands of time. To search, definitively, for the light.

The architect has not only dialogued with time. He has also talked with the space, with the factory that is next to the house, and with the family’s textile tradition, while transforming wool into glass and old boxes of thread into closets.

Arimon House
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Arimon House
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Arimon House
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The exterior of the house is officially classified as cultural patrimony. I have no doubt that after Marc García-Durán’s intervention the interior will be also awarded one day.

Arimon House
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Arimon House
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Arimon House
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