Riabilitazione delle vecchie concerie come quartier generale europeo del centro del cuoio

Premio Domus Restauro e Conservazione

Year of entry: 2017

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Cliente

Municipalità di Igualada

Collaboratori

Autori

Oriol Cusidó i Garí
Irene Marzo Llovet

Comprehensive rehabilitation of 2 tanneries in Rec neighborhood, an industrial area formed by ancient tanneries, modest buildings without a high heritage value, but great importance from the viewpoint of local historical memory. The framework of the project is an urban strategic operation looking to strenght its heritage elements. It is a first step of the intervention, with the objective to create a space for dissemination tanning in XXI century.

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The rehabilitation of the tanneries does not arise as the simple recovery of an isolated building, disconnected from their surroundings, but from a functional point of view, completes the nearby Leather Museum and provides a future pole of attractiveness. A building-door it is projected, that both from physical permeability as well from its programme, creates a museographic promenade to involve the urban space itself. In turn, the building opens to the canal to promote its recovery as central axis of the renovated neighbourhood.

The project aims to qualify the building from outside, to keep inside the existing building elements as they were found. The facades are restored to its original state: the size and pace of openings, the wooden blinds, etc. The double chromaticism makes explicit the two buildings using the colours of the neighborhood (ocher & Mangra).

Inside, the existing constructive solutions, reinforcements and wounds on the walls are respected… The story of the factory is expressed in the interior, and in this sense, intervention preserves this memory avoiding masking, scraping, polishing … The intervention on the existing structure is minimal, profiting most of elements, reinforcing them if necessary, with simple and economical solutions. The reinforcements are showed as another phase of the functional transformation of the building where existing reinforcements are not hidden or disguised.

The spatial configuration of the ships are respected without splitting or merging original spaces or changing the slope of the slabs, a characteristic of old tanneries. For the placement of the new server spaces a set of wood ‘boxes’ are inserted into the existing structure, not touching it. These wooden boxes are prefabricated, dry-mounted, easy disassembly and recyclability, and they reproduce the old system of constructive dryers colonizing inside the building.