Renovation of Cal Jan de la Plaça in Molins de Rei, a terraced house with a charming façade dating back to around 1910, sitting stylistically between Catalan Modernisme and Noucentisme. Facing south, the house opens up towards the rear courtyard through an exuberant façade composed of 17 arches.
The renovation aimed to preserve and restore all the building’s unique and historic features, from its structure to its original woodwork and tiled floors, while reimagining the spaces to welcome the daily life of a lovely family of four.
The various hydraulic floor tiles, originally from the house and crafted by Butsems, the first Catalan manufacturer to use an industrial hydraulic press, were carefully recovered and repositioned throughout the home.
This project stands as a dialogue between memory and materiality, a careful architectural intervention that respects the building’s historical identity while adapting it to contemporary ways of living. Cal Jan de la Plaça is once again inhabited, with spaces that honour its past and support the everyday life of today. Text description by the architects.
