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LLinàs Carmona, Josep. Castelló de la Plana, 1945. Titulat arquitecte el 1968 per l’ETSAB, d’on ha estat professor així com també de la Escola Tècnica Superior d’ Arquitectura del Vallès i de la Universitat Ramon Llull.
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Llinàs House
Situada en una petita parcel·la en pendent a la vora de la carretera, la casa adopta decididament la configuració d’un volum cúbic, arrebossat per la meitat posterior i vidrat per la meitat anterior. Una pèrgola metàl·lica encavalcada a la façana oest, que sobresurt notablement pels dos extrems del volum, fa la tasca de protecció i control de la llum solar directa que es projecta sobre la capsa vidrada. El programa, molt reduït, es reparteix en dues plantes, amb l’escala d’accés tangent al pla de façana. Llinàs investiga noves disposicions que transformin la imatge de la casa mediterrània i opta per elements arquitectònics trets directament de la tradició moderna. L’expressió de la casa evita els desglossaments de volums i els recursos llegats per la tradició, i la pèrgola assenyala de manera independent l’element predominant dels paisatges meridionals: la lluminositat dels raigs solars i els seus efectes en el condicionament dels espais. -
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Finalist. Category: ArchitectureCerdanyola-Ripollet Primary Healthcare Centre IICerdanyola-Ripollet Primary Healthcare Centre II
The Cerdanyola and Ripollet Primary Healthcare Centre is located within the Massot Park, in the municipality of Ripollet. Taking into account the parking needs of both the users of the centre and the visitors of the park, the project envisages the construction of an elevated square at the level of the roads that limit this park, below which, and without losing surface of pedestrians, there is parking. The projected building fundamentally considers its relationship with the Massot park, which is why the built volume gradually reduces its height so that the appearance of the building is minimal, and, in another sense, to determine a front façade, where there is the main entrance, which strongly links the building with the public square.Faculty of Geology of the UPC
Martínez Lapeña-Torres Arquitectos, Josep Llinàs Carmona, José Antonio Martínez Lapeña, Elías Torres Tur
Lined up on the south façade we find the seminars and teachers' offices. The main entrance is in the centre of this façade and in a small, attached volume. On the north face, the laboratories and practical classrooms - extensions of the linear block on the south face – are organised in four volumes that are staggered in plan. Through the west façade you enter the bar and the warehouse; on the east side, and through a courtyard with a ramp, to the car park, the library, the warehouses and the facilities.Restoration of the Façade of the Tarragona Civil Government Building
Josep Llinàs Carmona, Alejandro de la Sota Martínez
FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Architecture - Remodelling and RehabilitationRestoration of the Façade of the Tarragona Civil Government BuildingAvinguda Tarragona Office and Apartment Building
The building responds to very peculiar location and programme conditions. It is a long and narrow plot that faces an excessively vertical façade on a large avenue, while the more developed façade faces a long and narrow crossing. The programme called for two floors of offices for property use and a duplex on the top two floors. The choice was made to include the entire building under a semicircular roof, in order to reduce the verticality of the façade on Avinguda Tarragona. It is assumed that the façade on the narrow street clearly adopts a main character, and is related to the building in front of it through the replica of the three small balconies on the fourth floor. The slanted corner windows articulate the encounter between both façades. The building takes its form through a decomposed analysis of pre-existences and is then recomposed as a unitary volume through the everyday experience of the place.EU Mies Award
NominatedUPC Engineering LibraryInterventions in the Museum of the History of the City
Tinell Hall The need to introduce air conditioning and security installations in the "Tinell Hall” to adapt it to exhibition uses, together with the impossibility of working on the walls and ceilings of the hall for conservation reasons, lead to (taking advantage of the unevenness of the ground and the fact that this stone floor is recent) introduce a horizontal platform that accommodates between its surface and the existing ground the ducts and the facilities necessary to guarantee its use as a space for exhibitions. Frederic Marès Museum The renovation and conditioning works on the ground floor of the Frederic Marès Museum had as their basic objectives the facilitation of direct access from Dels Comptes Street (up to this point public access was only possible from the Verger courtyard, a half-private space), create reception spaces and temporary exhibitions, generate visuals from the street towards the interior of the museum, and update accessibility and facilities to comply with the corresponding regulations. Padellàs House During the consolidation operations of the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, the Plaça del Rei finished its building process with a Gothic building moved from its original location in Mercaders Street to its current location. The works were carried out in the years 1931-1932 and during the transfer the façades and the courtyard were basically preserved but the interior distribution was carried out in accordance with the functional needs of the moment, even the transfer of façades and patio so the stone walls, originally structural were transposed with others (that would form the real structure) of brick factory. Therefore, we could think of actions to reform the building to adapt it to the new exhibition uses and the current regulations against fires and accessibility, of a certain force. But, on the one hand, the wall structure of the building itself, which is difficult to manipulate, and especially the central position of Padellàs House in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, discouraged any modification, no matter how small, of the image of the house. So, even the initial plan to close the windows and balconies with shutters (which would have returned the house to its civil origin) was rejected during the work to avoid any modification of its current external image. Due to these limitations, the interior of the building has been worked on, initially consisting of watertight structures grouped on the ground floor and two floors, flashing structural walls and establishing double spaces with the intention that the whole building can be understood, in its journey, as an exhibition unit.EU Mies Award
NominatedInstitut d'Ensenyament Secundari Pere FontdevilaEl Carme Dwellings
The project is considered taking into account its impact on the public space, especially its impact on Roig Street, which is very narrow and without any ventilation or light. It is set up by means of three independent bodies attached to the partition walls of the site, so that they can free up space on the façade that connects directly to the cracks and small corners that remain between the three blocks. Each block has its own independent staircase, although access from the ground floor is unique, and the stairs fork at the level of the first floor. The determination of the three blocks takes great care of the spatial relations between the horizontal areas: the streets and the building, the public spaces and the spaces of domestic domain, the spaces of transition. The project reflects on the value of street alignment in the Old City, an undefined line, a strip of tolerance between diverse people, regardless of the dynamics of the offense and the sanction.Torredembarra Secondary School
L’escola es troba dalt d’un turó situat al límit de la població, amb bones vistes en totes direccions. El plantejament de l’edifici com un volum de planta quadrada amb un gran pati central respon a aquestes condicions. Aquesta disposició permet també una correcta relació entre els passadissos i els llocs de treball. L’escola s’apropia de les qualitats de l’indret tancant una part exterior en un pati, de manera que guanya lluminositat, bona temperatura i assolellada. Si bé la compacitat del volum permet distingir l’escola de les casetes dels voltants, s’ha trencat el caràcter monolític del volum mitjançant l’annexió d’un cos d’una sola planta cap a la zona de l’accés. A més, el perfil horitzontal de l’edifici juga amb el fons del cel, introduint a la part superior una sèrie de reclaus i escalonaments que són artificials. El projecte aprofita la bona coherència que en aquest cas s’ha establert entre l’emplaçament i el programa proposat.Premi Ciutat de Barcelona
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and UrbanismEl Carme DwellingsFAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: ArchitectureRestoration and Remodelling of Metropol TheatreNew Town Hall of Vila-Seca
La història del projecte parteix de la impossibilitat de competir amb la posició de l’església respecte de la plaça. El primer projecte redactat per Llinàs buidava la part central del solar, creant un nou espai exterior públic vinculat alhora amb la plaça i amb l’edifici del nou ajuntament. Davant l’oposició generada per aquesta solució, el projecte definitiu opta per conservar la façana i convertir l’espai previst anteriorment en un pati de serveis del nou edifici. Aquest pati adopta una configuració complexa com a romanent de la primera idea. Finalment la part principal del projecte consisteix en el treball sobre la vella façana. L’obra de nova planta ha anat substituint cada cop més la fàbrica original. Un treball amb els colors de la pedra de la façana crea la il·lusió que l’edifici ha crescut verticalment, quan en realitat l’autèntic creixement respecte a l’antic edifici ha tingut lloc en sentit horitzontal.FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureTorredembarra Secondary SchoolTerrassa Central Library
The library is located in one of the expansion areas of the city, where the presence of old steamboats and small single-family houses gradually gives way to new replacement architecture. The whole is made up of two clearly differentiated volumes, arranged obliquely. In the interstitial space between both bodies there is the main access. The largest volume is occupied by the general reading room, at ground floor level, while the lower level contains the children's library and storage. The ground floor of the small volume is used as a reading room for newspapers and magazines, while on the lower level there is an assembly room and a lobby with external access, from an English courtyard located on the south side. Both bodies are determined from the cross-section, designed to provide the entire interior space with homogeneous light, by means of large, curved vaults that evoke the city's industrial past.Premi Ciutat de Barcelona
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and UrbanismInterventions in the Museum of the History of the CityTorredembarra Lighthouse
El far entès més com a senyal marítima que com a peça d’arquitectura, més model genèric que projecte individualitzat és l’origen del present projecte. En aquest sentit, el probema en termes d’ús és molt simple: situar un punt de llum a 38 m. de la cota del terreny prevista (alçada fixada per al far de Torredembarra) i fer-lo accessible. El punt de llum, es tanca com a un volum de vidre: la llanterna, que inclou coberta de coure, penell i parallamps i que va facilitar, totalment acabada, el Port de Tarragona. Aquest plantejament condueix a desvincular el far de la seva situació geogràfica concreta i passar per damunt d’actituds que entendrien el far com a expressió més o menys dràmatica del paisatge. Per una part, doncs, l’escala d’accés al punt de llum, per l’altra, la llanterna, balcó perimetral per a la conservació de la mateixa i espais tècnics de recolzament. En haver-se reduït en gran mesura les superfícies tècniques de recolzament a planta baixa, ara només un grup electrògen de petit tamany que pot allotjar-se sota el terra, i desaparescuda la necessitat d’un habitatge per a la vigilància permanent del funcionament del far, la idea d’ocupació mínima per a preservar la natura original del terreny (aquí i suposo que per a tots els emplaçaments de fars, especialment valuosa) fou quasi un “a priori” del projecte.FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureTorredembarra LighthouseCan Ginestar Library
Can Ginestar is an old farmhouse, now in the centre of Sant Just Desvern, which has been working as a civic centre for years. If the farmhouse is a piece to be preserved and valued, the garden that surrounds it is also a reference for Sant Just and the years accumulated on its vegetation have given its trees a unique value. The library, which could be located in any part of the north garden (and which the urban planning proposed as an isolated piece), would form part of the equipment of this civic centre. This northern part of the garden is much less used than the rest, due to its slope, orientation and poor accessibility, but it is signified by the presence of large trees. The project aims to respect the trees and consequently the topography of the land, so that the façade in the garden is moved forward or backward to establish distances and relationships with the trees. On the contrary, the rear façade uses the boundary with respect to the street as the back of the library and is proposed in continuity with the beautiful and undulating existing wall, which ends with a space open to the natural territory. The library (facing the garden) is treated as a glazed gallery that seeks visual contact in extension with the large trees. The gallery is resolved with light elements that distance themselves from the massive image of the farmhouse and can be understood as its formal counterpoint.Premi Ciutat de Barcelona
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and UrbanismCentre d’Educació Infantil i Primària Pit-roigVila de Gràcia Library
Josep Llinàs Carmona, Joan Vera i García
The intersection between Torrent de l’Olla Street and Travessera de Gràcia is, from a traffic point of view, a first-rate connection between the district of Gràcia and the city. For this reason, the library acquires a representative character that does not correspond to the small dimensions of a plot of land that, on the other hand, is typical of the urban fabric of the area. It is therefore an uncommon use for a site normally intended for housing. The configuration of the building expresses this mismatch between the site and the new program that is inserted into it. The usual column of floors is inflated by gradations, in order to express the activities that take place inside the building. The façade that faces the street does not substantially affect the organisation of the building, but uses its own elements that give thickness to the skin, while an emergency pillar does the work that the wall has stopped doing.Fort Pienc Street Block
The program required the inclusion of a series of very diverse activities on an block of houses in the Eixample, truncated by the intersection of Ribes Street and some existing buildings that had not followed the criteria of building in a certain direction. The project aims to completely rebuild the boundaries of the block of houses and create its own topology. A new square is being created along Ribes Street, which will serve as an access point and reference point for the entire civic centre. From this square you can access the market, the library, the nursery and the civic centre, which are looking for a place in the open spaces of the block of houses, without losing the connection with the square. The student residence and the geriatric residence form a separate body, with access via Sardenya Street, although it folds over itself in order to participate in the space generated by the square. The order of Ribes Street and the new square set out a clear criterion for the location of each part.Premi Ciutat de Barcelona
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and UrbanismFort Pienc Street BlockEU Mies Award
NominatedVila de Gràcia LibraryJaume Fuster Library
Josep Llinàs Carmona, Joan Vera i García
The project’s proposal is complex, in response to a place with a great mix of urban interference. The choice of this shape is based on two considerations: first, the character that the main façade adopts as a backdrop for the site where the building is located. This façade should be considered as an addition to the large rear façades of the buildings that have access to República Argentina Avenue. Secondly, the project takes into account the transformations of use and concept that will take place in this part of the city thanks to the connection of the "green corridor" with Lesseps Square. In the first case, an attempt is made to merge the volume of the library with the subsequent volumes. In plan, this translates into a rhomboidal perimeter that completes the morphology initiated by those buildings. The library thus confronts the staircase and the character of Lesseps Square as another piece of the urban fabric behind it.FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: ArchitectureJaume Fuster LibraryLlinars del Vallès House
The single-family house in Llinars del Vallès is located in an urbanisation of single-family homes on the outskirts of this city in the region of El Vallès, in the province of Barcelona. The plot is the sum of two units of 500 m2 each, so that the house will be a bit larger than the average ones built in the urbanisation. On the other hand, this plot of 1,000 m2 is located at the foot of a small hill so that the land is 2.5-3 m above street level and, at the same time, it connects in a straight line with the urban centre and visually with a mountainous, wooded and extensive landscape. This direction of arrival, which at the same time the slope is linked to the topography of the land, coincides with the East orientation, when in reality the humid climatology of the region advises orienting the house to the south. On the other hand, the geometry of the plot, with a circular sector, does not contain any suggestion about the implementation of orthogonal axes to refer to the plan. So the project begins not by fixing a limit or an organised system, but by fixing a centre from which the house spreads out to occupy the plot in a subordinate way. This centre is immediately identified with a study-library, a space to work during breaks and the rest of the house is articulated (from this centre) around a porch that allows domestic activities in the open air. A piece that identifies and differentiates these second residences, from the first ones linked to the interior space and in the city. Porch and study will be the elements that originate the house and give rise to a process of work and study that links these two pieces together and covers the "soft" parts of the project: bedrooms, kitchen, dining room, etc. The instrument that will be used to establish this relationship will be the cover. During the process, successive models are generated that aim to define this relationship. Polarity manifests itself vertically, but also very quickly horizontally: in the south-west the living room and main room, and in the north-west the kitchen and children's and grandchildren's bedrooms. Between both arms there is the porch. The porch must be extensive, but at the same time it must have natural light through an abatement of part of the roof, which in another step becomes empty. The artificiality of the system to light the porch does not manage to make a "place" in the geometry of the roof and finally the solution comes to introduce a cut in the roof when it approaches the study, which gives us protection from the sun but abundant natural light from the North that enters through this uncovered floor, next to the centre of the house.L'Atlàntida (Osona Performing Arts Centre)
Pedro Ayesta, Josep Llinàs Carmona, Josep Llobet i Gelmà, Laia Vives
Entenem que el projecte dóna resposta a les particularitats del seu emplaçament i del programa de necessitats. En relació a l'emplaçament, se situa entre el límit de la ciutat consolidada i els futurs eixamples. El pas d'un teixit a un altre està articulat per una franja de terreny natural vertebrada pel riu Mèder. Al límit nord, la ciutat consolidada està formada per patis als quals donen les façanes posteriors d'edificis entre mitgeres. Entre elles es troba "Can Serratosa", actual seu de l'Escola de Música de Vic, que albergarà espais comuns en la nova Escola de Música. "Can Serratosa" disposa d'un pas lateral que permet l'accés directe des del carrer al solar, que tindrà gran importància en el desenvolupament de la proposta. El límit Sud, al contrari, és tan sols una línia de propietat sense consistència real, que pensem, ha de quedar dissolta en donar solució de continuïtat al solar no construït amb el verd definit pel marge del riu. En relació al programa: Està format bàsicament per parts de molt diferent constitució: Teatre, Auditori, Serveis, Escola de Música i Restaurant. Si el Teatre i l'Auditori són peces de gran escala que no necessiten llum natural, l'Escola de Música és, al contrari, l'agregació repetitiva de petites unitats que sí necessiten llum i ventilació natural. En el cas del Teatre, cal destacar l'altura inevitable de la caixa escènica que pel seu volum serà una referència visual del conjunt en relació a la ciutat i al seu entorn pròxim. PROPOSTA Ha estat elaborada atenent als objectius: 1. Entendre la construcció adscrita a la ciutat consolidada, com a part fusionada a la mateixa i, al contrari, vincular l'espai lliure al territori natural organitzat pel marge del riu. 2. Utilitzar sistemes de projecte que fossin capaços de solucionar amb els mateixos instruments (relació amb el terra, geometria i cobertes, bàsicament) peces tan diverses, pel que fa a ús i escala, com les que formen el programa, i que alhora aconseguissin incloure el volum de la caixa escènica a les regles del sistema utilitzat. 3. En aquest sentit, ha estat molt important la utilització del pas que des de "Can Serratosa" arriba a l'espai lliure, com a eix vertebrador que situa i dóna accés a totes les parts del programa. I també l'ús de la coberta inclinada, que des de la cota més alta de la caixa escènica descendeix i es desplega fins a cobrir porxos i aules. 4. Entre els materials utilitzats (formigó vist, basalt, alumini lacat, etc.) hem introduït en les parts més altes de la caixa escènica i de l'Escola de Música, un revestiment metàl · lic, un aliatge de coure-alumini, que dirigeix ??la vista fins el "skyline" del complex i des d'aquest al de la ciutat de VicVila-Seca House
Josep Llinàs Carmona, Joan Vera i García
L'habitatge, entre mitgeres, està situat al casc antic de Vila-seca en un context d'habitatges de similar grandària a la del nostre projecte. Una infreqüent diferència entre els m² en què es traduïa el programa i els m² que es podien construir, ens va permetre introduir a l'habitatge dos buits (un pati de 4x5, 5m i una terrassa descoberta a la planta segona de 4x5m) que faciliten usos privats a l'exterior sense perdre la privacitat de l'habitatge. La posició d'aquests dos buits i la relació que s'estableix entre ells, permet l'assolellament del fons de la planta baixa, on se situa la biblioteca (que és també estudi i espai de trobada) Pati i terrassa, permeten la ventilació creuada de peces com la sala d'estar o la cuina-menjador i la duplicació d'usos domèstics a l'exterior, mitjançant terrasses i balcons de diferents mides i graus de privacitat, dotats de mecanismes (persianes, lluernes, tribunes, tendals) que introdueixin "habitabilitat" a mig camí entre l'interior i la intempèrie.FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: ArchitectureInstitute of Ocular Microsurgery (IMO)EU Mies Award
NominatedL'Atlàntida (Osona Performing Arts Centre)Audiovisual
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