Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero

Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Exterior PhotographyPerer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Exterior Photography, Windows, FacadePerer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Interior Photography, Chair, BeamPerer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Interior Photography, Dining room, Table, Beam, WindowsPerer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - More Images+ 6

Olot, Spain
  • Construction Manager: Arnau Vergés Tejero
  • Project Team: Arnau Vergés Tejero, Jordi Cusidó
  • Construction: Construccions Josep Xarles
  • Carpenter : Mobles Joan Prat
  • Installations : Instal·lacions Jomi
  • City: Olot
  • Country: Spain
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Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Exterior Photography
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Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Exterior Photography, Windows, Garden
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Text description provided by the architects. An architectural object that identifies a landscape, a landmark for the people of the place, a box that protects the precious treasure of memory. 

Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Exterior Photography, Facade
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Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Image 10 of 11
Sketches - existing/proposed intervention
Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade
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A cabin that only contained poetry, brick pillars hanging from the sky, an evocative roof praying to survive its last snowfall. The charm of abandonment is a fleeting mirage that cannot be sustained forever. 

Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Interior Photography, Chair, Beam
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Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Image 11 of 11
Section - South facade - Ground floor plan - first floor plan
Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Interior Photography, Dining room, Table, Beam, Windows
© Marc Torra_fragments.cat

Converting this tool of our rural tradition into a home is the objective of the commission. To tackle the project, we analyze and maintain the proportions of the building, measure the relationships that exist between the void and the solid, assume the basic structural scheme, and idolize its composition of materials.

We fill the gaps with glass and air, creating large windows and porches for social spaces, and lattices or windows for the bedrooms and bathrooms; we preserve and consolidate all the elements of the structure to integrate them into the project and give them a new meaning; we experiment with lime mortars and volcanic clay for interior and exterior coatings faithful to the existing ones; we use handmade ceramic materials. We strive to be true.

Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Interior Photography, Windows, Door, Facade, Beam
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And all this, because we would like our construction to also arise from necessity and tradition. Because we would like to graft ourselves onto them. And because, to take a step forward, often you have to take two steps back.

Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero - Interior Photography, Wood, Beam, Column
© Marc Torra_fragments.cat

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Cite: "Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero" [La cabanya del Perer / Arnau Vergés Tejero] 07 Sep 2023. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1006509/perer-cabin-arnau-verges-tejero> ISSN 0719-8884

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