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The characteristics of this project that the Roger Torné Foundation is running today, La Casa de l’Aire, needed a suitable environment that would be in harmony with the forecast objectives. For this reason, the Foundation decided to carry out its project in Montseny Natural Park, whose landscape and ecological importance represents an undeniable reference point as a natural space in Catalonia that contrasts with the intense transformation of the territory surrounding it.
The country house
Traditional Catalan country houses and buildings are part of the well-known landscape that cannot be separated from it. They add an aesthetic value to the overall territory. Specifically, the Mas Surell country house in X is inscribed within the limits of the PEN and ‘Xarxa Natura 2000’ spaces, as well as the pre-park area in accordance with the zoning of the Special Environmental Plan currently in force, whose environmental and landscape quality has encouraged the Foundation to select this concrete location for its project and not other ones that were more accessible or closer to the city.
Undergoing successive reforms during the 14th and 15th centuries, the Surell family lived at Mas Surell until the 30s of last century.
Despite the reforms it underwent in the 60s, the entire property and its buildings have preserved a good part of their history and patrimony.
The architectural project
The basic plan considers the restoration and expansion of Mas Surell and other attached buildings to earmark it to the activities that will be carried out by the Roger Torné Foundation.
Our Mas Surell restoration project has been carefully studied from an environmental point of view. Mas Surell is in a setting with great landscape value and we are the first group to be interested in preserving it and improving it.
In addition to outline the logical restoration and adaptation of the inside constructed spaces, never changing the physiognomy of the current façades with their inherent patrimonial value, a discrete expansion is planned of the built surface area and the fitting out of a parking area with new woodlands over the present vegetation of prairies and scrubland.
The intervention, based on criteria of mimicry and harmonisation, thanks to the materials employed (essentially wood, stone and old tiles) and the underground expansions, means that the overall landscape impact will be clearly compatible with the preservation objectives of the natural park.
The restoration and intervention has a technical plan, drawn up by Joan García Borés, architect and partner in GBR Arquitectes Associats, and a study on the landscape impact and integration drawn up by the Ramon Folch Studio.
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