Detail of the project ed. 2020

ALEAOLEA – SAN­TA MARIA

Design­er	Laia Rena­lias Esteve
Loca­tion	Raval de la Creu, 25. 25690 Vilano­va de la Bar­ca. Llei­da, Spain.
Design Team	AleaOlea archi­tec­ture and land­scape. Laia Rena­lias, Leti­cia Sori­ano, Car­les Ser­ra­no and Roger Such, Architects.
Year	2016
Pho­to credits	Adrià Goula (every photograph)

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

The old Church of Vilano­va de la Bar­ca (Llei­da, Spain) is a 13th cen­tu­ry Goth­ic build­ing that was par­tial­ly demol­ished in 1936 as a result of the bomb­ings dur­ing the Span­ish Civ­il War. Since then, the church had been in a gen­er­al state of ruin, pre­serv­ing just its apse, some frag­ments of the naves and the west façade. The main aim of the project was the restora­tion of the orig­i­nal appear­ance of the church and its trans­for­ma­tion in a new mul­ti-pur­­pose hall. The most impor­tant part of the project has focused on the cov­er­ing ele­ments: the façade and the roof. The project estab­lish­es a new brick façade based on a lat­tice­work tex­ture and a new gabled Arab tile roof. The entire sys­tem is con­ceived as a new archi­tec­tur­al ceram­ic shell that is gen­tly sup­port­ed over the remains of the ancient walls. From the out­side, the per­cep­tion of the old church is restored where­as in the inside, the build­ing recov­ers the basil­i­­ca-styled floor plan and pre­serves the atmos­phere of rest and intro­spec­tion of the orig­i­nal sacred space. The project aims to estab­lish an archi­tec­tur­al dia­logue between the old parts and the new ele­ments, between the past and the present.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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