ADEQUACIÓ ESCORXADOR SITGES
Interventions like this, especially in a building listed in the Architectural Heritage Catalog, present several challenges. These include turning the limitations of working with a catalogued building and a tight budget into strengths, enhancing the most notable original elements—such as volume, façades, and structure—and ensuring that new elements complement rather than compete with the originals.
The project’s goal is to preserve all original elements of the building while introducing new ones into the gaps, both in the façade and the interior space, without interfering with or competing against the historically and architecturally valuable original features. These new elements are the ground-floor windows on the side façades, the volume of the main access inside the porch, and the sanitary facilities inside the building.
On the one hand, the main access has been modified by creating two side entrances instead of a central one, improving the connection between the building and the external side spaces. On the other hand, to provide optimal ventilation and light control conditions in the interior space, the new ground-floor windows have been resolved with a set of wooden panels and glazing, inspired by the original windows, which were also composed of four wooden and glass elements. In the new windows, there are two operable elements: one for ventilation and the other for natural lighting. The treatment of the windows reflects the planned multifunctionality of the interior space.
The original building’s materiality is characterized by its white, green, and reddish tones. The newly introduced materials aim to create a language of their own, giving identity to the current intervention in harmony with the original architecture. The proposed work does not detract from the listed building; on the contrary, the new elements contrast with the original building and enhance its architecture. The dialogue between the old and the new enriches the building architecturally.
