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MORA-SANVISENS, Arquitectes Associats és una societat d’arquitectura, rehabilitació, disseny i urbanisme, fundada l'any 1998 pels arquitectes Gabriel Mora i Carmina Sanvisens.

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  1. MS I House

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    MS I House

    The intervention takes place in a building built in 1917, located in one of the few existing pedestrian passages in the upper part of Barcelona. In this passage, an attempt was made to test the compatibility of the English garden city model with the terraced house type. The street façade of this existing architecture has been preserved, and it is undoubtedly the best testimonial reference from the time of construction. When the restoration began, the house was in a dilapidated state, with only its essential structure preserved: façades, load-bearing walls and the Catalan vault staircase. Based on these elements, the interior space was redistributed. In the central corridor, there is the staircase on one side, from which all its surface finishes are changed. On the other side we find the kitchen and a dining room-office which is ventilated and illuminated through a small interior patio and the façade, respectively. In the area facing the garden, the old gallery attached to the façade has been removed. Through a sliding glass window, the living room and the dining room are spatially extended towards the back garden to the porch that closes the opposite end. The bedrooms are located on the ground floor. On the roof, the originally existing volume was restructured again, moving it to the north side to accommodate a swimming pool and a solarium on the south side, and leaving the back space as an auxiliary service roof.
  2. Casa MS II

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    Casa MS II

    La reforma consisteix a convertir dos apartaments en un de sol de 80 m2 per habitatge de segona residència. Aquests dos apartaments estan situats en un edifici de 50 apartaments fets als anys 70 per alguns components de l’Estudi PER. Els elements bàsics a l’hora de plantejarse l’actuació, que es considerava que s’havien de preservar, són els següents: les parets estructurals fetes amb gero de 15, deixades vistes i pintades de blanc, formen dues crugies de 4mx9m amb una forma esbiaixada als extrems. Aquestes dues crugies formen una unitat dins el grup d’apartaments i estan separats pels costats dels altres apartaments per uns patis d’il·luminació i ventilació de 50cm d’amplada. Un altre element important és la meravellosa vista cap al poble de Cadaqués i el mar, a través d’uns grans finestrals. Totes les divisions interiors i els terres són fets de fusta contraxapada tipus “Permali”. Les portes, del mateix material, són totes corredisses i permeten unificar o dividir els espais a conveniència. Tot l’habitatge està altament equipada i tecnificada, cosa que permet utilitzar-la indistintament a l’hivern i a l’estiu.
  3. Ramon Fuster School (Phases 2, 3, 4)

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    Ramon Fuster School (Phases 2, 3, 4)

    The complex, located on a steep slope, consists of three buildings. The one to the north, carried out by the BACH-MORA Arquitectes studio, was done some time ago, and the project continues the initial approach. Therefore, two more buildings are built that follow the volumes and ideas of the original project, modifying it in order to respond to the current needs of the school. Together, the three buildings express three stages of education (kindergarten, primary and secondary), communicating with each other through a walkway at level -1, which acts as terraces on the outside, porches, of outdoor study place, etc. On this level there are also the common services, and it is the exit level to go to the dining room, the gym, etc. The three buildings create between them, on level -2, the playing spaces or multi-sports courts. Each building has its own space and porch. The buildings formally express, within a unit of materials and forms, their specific internal functions, based on the variation within the same typology. The school group follows the pedagogical line marked by Ramon Fuster, in which architecture must express the evaluation of teaching: boys and girls must experience their educational progression through spatial changes. The school's other philosophy is to live nature (to enjoy the weather: the sun and the rain, the cold and the heat).
  4. Gymnasium for the Frederic Mistral-Tècnic Eulàlia School

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    Gymnasium for the Frederic Mistral-Tècnic Eulàlia School

    The multi-sports building, which contains a children's gymnasium and changing rooms, was placed under the existing sports courts while taking advantage of the strong unevenness of the lot, as it had to be buried due to reasons defined in the Special Plan. A north-facing façade is created, through which the building receives light, accesses to different levels of the building and an independent entrance on Foix Avenue.
  5. Escola Ramon Fuster (fase 3)

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    Escola Ramon Fuster (fase 3)

    The complex, located on a steep slope, consists of three buildings. The building located in the north side, carried out by the BACH-MORA Arquitectes studio, was done some time ago. The project continues the initial approach. Therefore, two more buildings are built that follow the volumes and ideas of the original project, modifying it in order to respond to the current needs of the school. The three buildings, together, express three stages of education (kindergarten, primary and secondary), communicating with each other through a walkway at level -1, which acts as terraces on the outside, porches, of outdoor study place, etc. On this level there are also the common services, and it is the exit level to go to the dining room, the gym, etc. On level – 2, the three buildings create the playing spaces and multi-sports courts. Each building has its own space and porch. The buildings formally express, within a unit of materials and forms, their specific internal functions, based on the variation within the same typology. The school group follows the pedagogical line marked by Ramon Fuster, in which architecture must express the evaluation of teaching: boys and girls must experience their educational progression through spatial changes. The school's other philosophy is to live nature (enjoy the weather: the sun and the rain, the cold and the heat).
  6. Line 4 Metro Station: El Maresme-Fòrum

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    Line 4 Metro Station: El Maresme-Fòrum

    This station belongs to the layout of the L4 line, existing and in operation. The work was carried out in the open air and with great construction difficulties, as it had to be compatible with the movement of the trains. The initial project was structured from its section and consisted of placing the installation and ventilation gallery under the platforms, leaving the structure that covers the station free. For economic reasons and work deadlines, a second project was carried out which, despite reducing both the cost of the structure and the construction time, forced the ventilation of the station to pass through the roof, masking the clarity of the main section. This change forced us to rethink the initial design, projecting an intermediate roof over the platforms for the passage of facilities (electricity, ventilation, signaling and telecommunications). This roof consists of structures that support metal trays to serve as a filter and, at the same time, as a diffusive screen for the lighting of the platforms, leaving, in the background, the air renewal facilities. The appropriate decision of the material, the design and the corresponding relationships become the key to the project. The structure is of screen walls, with the platform covered by large, prefabricated beams of post-stressed concrete. The ceilings are covered with metal mesh ceilings joining the reception spaces (lobbies) and circulation (corridors and platforms), this continuous mesh filters the light, hides the installations and serves as a support for signage. The covering of the screen walls in halls and corridors are 20x100cm pieces of granite supported with metal elements. On the platforms the structural screens are clad with precast concrete slabs of 126 x 300 placed vertically. The areas where the cladding module cannot be applied, such as the spaces intended for lifts and stairs, are made of stainless-steel sheet. The functional objects - lockers, bins, signage and lifts - are unified by using glass and stainless steel in their design. The benches on the platforms are 60x200cm prefabricated concrete pieces supported on iron profiles. The entire station is designed so that the materials and the design of the spaces have maximum durability and safety, avoiding degradation and enhancing the mobility and accessibility of all types of passengers.
  7. MPS House

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    MPS House

    La casa es troba al Ros, una de les cales que conformen la gran badia de Cadaqués. Situada davant de mar, a primera filera, i aixecada respecte del passeig de la riba, just per no veure els cotxes i els vianants. Urbanísticament, encara que a prop del casc antic, té una qualificació d'edificació aïllada. La parcel·la és petita, d'uns 480m2, amb una orientació sud-oest. L'edificació és un volum compacte de geometria simple com moltes altres construccions de Cadaqués. A aquest volum se li afegeixen elements lleugers: pèrgoles, tendals, persianes, branes i emmarcats de finestres que protegeixen de la intensa llum i li donen la textura de les ombres. El volum de la casa és esglaonat per l'aplicació de l'ordenança municipal que obliga a retardar la planta pis, recolzant-se sobre unes plataformes o bancals que baixen cap al mar. La coberta està en contrapendent per a donar més alçada a la façana de mar que recull la pèrgola de la planta pis. En la primera plataforma hi ha la zona d'estar-menjador; en la segona, la piscina; i en l’ última, el jardí. Des de la planta primera es veu el conjunt de plans esglaonats que, juntament amb el mar, formen un patchwork de colors i materials diferents. La piscina es desplaça del centre de la parcel·la ocupant un espai lateral entre la casa i el carrer, distorsionant així la seva simetria frontal. L’accés es produeix pel carrer lateral. L'entrada principal s’obre amb una gran vidriera que mostra l'escala que vincula les plantes i dóna llum al soterrani. S'ha donat accés al mar a través d'un conjunt d'escales que van comunicant les plataformes i tenen continuïtat fins a la terrassa de la planta pis. La continuïtat entre l'interior i l'exterior en la façana principal és reafirmada per la unitat del terra amb una pedra caliça de color verd-grisós que es confon amb el mar. Les parets interiors perimetrals són de totxo pintat per tal de donar una textura similar a les construccions antigues de pedra encalada. L'altre material és la fusta de taulell marí amb què es revesteixen els interiors, les divisions, els mobles i els sostres que volen recordar el confort dels camarots dels vaixells.
  8. PS House

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    PS House

    La casa projectada és un volum elemental prismàtic, de dues plantes, amb coberta a dues aigües, empotrat a la pendent del terreny i orientat a sud i a les vistes. Degut a la seva llargària es divideix en dos cossos sota la mateixa coberta, separats per un porxo on es situa l'entrada, en planta baixa. A la planta pis es converteix en una galeria de distribució cap a la zona de dormitoris dels fills o la sala d’estar i apartament dels pares. Aquesta galeria fa, a la vegada, de vestíbul i zona de relax. La casa es construeix amb materials de la zona seguint les estrictes ordenances municipals. La coberta és de teula àrab i les parets de pedra seca i fusta. L'estructura de la casa és, en planta baixa, de pilars i llosa de formigó vist i, en la planta pis, de pilars i coberta d’encavallades, ambdós de fusta, que es converteixen en protagonistes espaials de l'interior de l'habitatge.
  9. Vehí House

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    Vehí House

    En el paratge de s'Alqueria, a Cadaqués, les ordenances són tan restrictives que condicionen tot tipus d'arquitectura. Les edificacions tan sols poden tenir una planta, la coberta ha d'ésser inclinada i amb teula i les parets han d’estar revestides o construïdes en pedra local. Aquestes mesures, que en principi s'estableixen per garantir l'èxit de la integració de les edificacions en el paisatge, no aconsegueixen el seu propòsit, perquè la qualitat arquitectònica, que és el que domina, es independent d’aquestes tres condicions establertes. L’habitatge projectat s’adapta a aquestes mesures proposant tres volums coberts amb una sola pendent, formant dos d'ells una ‘L’ orientada a sud, oberta a les vistes de la cala de s'Alqueria i protegida del vent de tramuntana que bufa del nord. Aquests tres volums recullen un seguit de tres espais: un d'entrada a l'habitatge, on es converteix en porxo pels vehicles; el segon, obert a sud, abraça unes plataformes a diferents nivells a les que s’inclou la piscina; i el tercer, a un nivell més baix, es l'entrada als serveis i al garatge soterrat.
  10. Extension and Remodelling of Caritat Serinyana Primary School

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    Extension and Remodelling of Caritat Serinyana Primary School

    Entrant a Cadaqués, a la riba esquerra i fent front a la vila Vella, es troba l’Escola Caritat Serinyana, edifici construït el 1924 d’estil clàssic d’influència francesa. Cap als anys 80 es realitza una reeixida ampliació amb el nou ordre arquitectònic; una franja blanca allargada. L’última operació consisteix en la segona i definitiva ampliació de l’escola Primària i la nova creació de l’Institut de Secundaria amb els corresponents espais comuns; menjador, sala polivalent, vestidors, administració, etc. i també la ubicació de tres pistes esportives. Aquest conjunt escolar actual representa un augment de superfície important, de més de 4.200m2, un fort impacte per la imatge fragmentada de petit gra que caracteritza la morfologia constructiva de la vila. La nova proposa són unes edificacions lineals i esglaonades en tres nivells amb un llenguatge neutre, emprant la pedra, extreta de la mateixa obra, evocant les “bancades o travesses” agrícoles, característiques del paisatge de Cadaqués que s’adapten perfectament a la topografia del terreny i es mimetitzen amb ell. L’edifici lineal resultant té una longitud de 150m i el conformen exclusivament els espais de les aules, que s’agrupen de dos en dos formant a la vegada una estructura fragmentada que ressalta l’abstracció geomètrica, evitant la monotonia. Sobre els tres nivells i ha amb contacte amb el terreny rocós es situen les pistes esportives separades per les edificacions que contenen els serveis comuns. Les edificacions són d’estructura de formigó deixat vist i els tancaments de pedra extreta de la mateixa obra i executada en sec com es feia antigament. El resultat és un gran conjunt d’edificis que respecten la memòria i harmonitzen amb el lloc; edificis negres que fan un esforç per trobar la mida adequada, per desaparèixer educadament davant de l’esclat blanc de Cadaqués.
  11. Esteve Paluzie Library and Constitució Square

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Josep Emili Hernández-Cros, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    Esteve Paluzie Library and Constitució Square

    The building is located in the northern part of Plaça de la Constitució, on the axis with the Dr. Moragues Avenue and slightly moved to one side to suggest and connect the passage towards Estoril and Nàpols Streets, on the other side of the future 'Interpolar'. The building, structured in three staggered floors, from the basement to the first floor, creates a large overhang in the connection area between the two neighbourhoods. A large part of the library is planned to be underground to take advantage of the maximum surface area of the square and to minimise the volumetric impact on the current constructions in the area. This basement is ventilated and lit by a patio with fully glazed walls and covered with a pergola with adjustable slats to filter the light. The patio also illuminates part of the floor, which has already undergone displacement, giving access to the square. This lighting mechanism culminates on the second floor. The courtyard of light creates a fissure along the entire building; on the other hand, the building is very closed in its perimeter façades. The entire ground floor of the library is organised in such a way that it is accessible and permeable to the circulation of users. At one end is the bar-cafeteria and the exhibition hall, connected to the library, which can be used independently of it. The main access is open towards the square and has the information and reference spaces, the general background area, music, image and computerised consultation spaces, which are also located on the ground floor. In the basement there is the rest of the general background area, support spaces, study space, multimedia space and storage room, tanks and installations. On the ground floor is the children's area and the internal work area. The children's area space is connected to the patio-garden with a covered porch. The structure is made of reinforced concrete bearing walls and pillars. The façade is made of granite.
  12. Lines 9 and 10 Metro Station: La Sagrera

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    Lines 9 and 10 Metro Station: La Sagrera

    The Generalitat de Catalunya is currently carrying out the infrastructure works for the tunnel and stations of the new L9-L10 Metro line. On behalf of GISA, the interior conditioning and access project for La Sagrera station L9-L10 is being drawn up. The intervention focuses on the station's own facilities project and the treatment of the interiors in relation to enclosures and partitions, pavements, coverings, low ceilings, design of the elements of the platform and forecasting the location of the elements of toll and sales and signaling equipment according to specific project prescriptions for L4 and, temporarily, L9. The main characteristic of this station is the depth at which the platform is with respect to the access points (approx. 37m). This condition has defined the geometry of both the station and the way to access the platform. Access is from the main lobby of the L5, so the scope of the project begins directly inside the station. The lateral vertical walls of the different floors are covered with retro-illuminated panels and stainless steel; on the other hand, the front wall with respect to the escalators that give access to the platforms is reserved for a composition of Trespa panels in different colours by the artist Pere Bellès. The flat ceiling of the main lobby is projected from a grid of metal profiles that differentiates this floor from the rest with a flat ceiling of prefabricated stainless-steel panels. The platforms are covered with prefabricated Trespa panels arranged in the form of scales.
  13. Ramon Fuster School (phase 4)

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    Ramon Fuster School (phase 4)

    The Ramon Fuster School is built by a set of three isolated buildings, joined by a common walkway, which were placed in stages between 1992 and 2000; now a fourth building is being built to house the secondary education classroom, an assembly hall, a gymnasium and, on the roof, a new multi-sports court. The new extension is located in a wooded area with a steep slope and separated from the complex by a vehicle access ramp. Morphologically, it is treated as a formally different building, since it does not have a metal roof like the other buildings, and it has a more elementary shape due to the location of the covered track. The volume is clad in vertical minion sheet of dark grey, almost black, scraping an opposite image and integrated with the forest.
  14. New FGC Railway Stations: Vallparadís Universitat, Terrassa, Terrassa Nacions Unides

    Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    New FGC Railway Stations: Vallparadís Universitat, Terrassa, Terrassa Nacions Unides

    Commissioned by Infraestructures.cat, the project for the extension of the Generalitat de Catalunya Railways in Terrassa for the stations of Vallparadís Universitat, Terrassa Estació del Nord, Terrassa Naciones Unides, in addition to the rehabilitation of the Terrassa Rambla station, is being drafted, as well as emergency exits and tunnels. The main characteristic of these stations is that they are all buried at a depth of 20-26m and, on the surface of streets or parks, only the access aedicule, emergency exits and ventilation elements emerge. The stations are carried out in two phases. In the first, carried out by the engineering departments, it foresees the civil works infrastructure of the tunnel, as well as the structure and volume of the stations. These are large underground rectangular buildings, with several floors and with different uses depending on the station: tertiary, parking floors and facilities areas, in addition to FGC lobbies and platforms. In the second phase, the conditioning of the stations is carried out. The interventions focus on the installation project and the treatment of the interiors in relation to enclosures and partitions, floors, coverings, ceilings, design of elements in halls and platforms and location of equipment elements, tolls, sales and signaling for FGC. In the resulting design of these stations, although in very different situations and requirements in each one, an attempt has been made to give a common and integrating image - both in lobbies and on platforms - so that the traveler, upon entering the premises and moving for its interiors, perceives a unity of materials and finishes, with slight differences in the identifying colours of each station and in the adaptation of the constructive solutions due to the different characteristics of each station.
  15. FGC Industrial Unit-Museum of Historical Material

    AMOO (Aureli Mora + Omar Ornaque), Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Aureli Mora Sanvisens, Omar Ornaque Mor, Carmina Sanvisens Montón

    FGC Industrial Unit-Museum of Historical Material

    This is a large-scale expansion intervention of the workshop building and main building of the FGC Operational Centre in Rubí with three main objectives: - To cover the old road of dynamic tests for storage and museumisation of various historical units. - To provide a new façade and image to the access street to the centre, while giving greater privacy to the homes in the nearest suburban core. - To act as an exhibitor of the historical units towards the car park and access to the centre's offices. The scale of the workshop and office building - with a larger surface area than a block of the Cerdà plan - and the length of the dynamic test track to be covered, required a forceful and symbolic intervention, which at the same time give material and volumetric continuity to the centre and provide a contemporary image in tune with the institution's current requirements. A long structure is projected adjacent to the workshop building of 173.00m in length and continuous section in the form of an arch that avoids the problem of distinguishing between façade and roof and that, resting on the existing concrete wall that delimits the perimeter from the centre and formally separating from the workshop building, it creates an optimal transition between the existing curved and inclined roofs and the street, towards which it becomes the new image. This structure is clad on the outside with continuous smooth sheet metal with a tab joint, avoiding any joint in section and providing a continuous rhythm along the entire length of the new ship, only interrupted by the emergency staircase - an expressly unique volume, exempt from the main structure— and by the spelling of large corporate letters that subtly present the institution and mark the main access. Inside, this structure is presented in a rational and completely naked way, enhancing its tectonic beauty and marking a constant rhythm that is surprising for its length. The inner lining of the arched enclosure is also made of sheet metal - this grooved, indented, micro-perforated and arranged over large thicknesses of thermal and acoustic insulation - in order to minimise internal reverberation and acoustic pollution towards the outside, in case of specific movement of historical units. When you reach the main entrance to the centre, the new nave opens up towards the offices through a large, glazed façade from top to bottom that allows you to observe the historical units from the outside, like a great heritage showcase. This façade disintegrates into a lower, irregular volume when it reaches the end of the unit, highlighting its access through a double pillar and revealing part of the inner face of the arched roof. This decomposed and lighter end of the main unit adapts kindlier to the set of elements of the main entrance to the centre and still allows a glimpse of the original workshop space from the street. In short, a large and forceful infrastructural intervention that strengthens the railway image of the centre by means of its extensive length and makes it possible to extend the useful life of one of the most unique sets of FGC.
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    FGC Industrial Unit-Museum of Historical Material

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