Susanna Cots designs a house to inhabit a forest in l’Empordà
A refuge hidden among cedars, for a couple from northern Europe, with light as the protagonist.
Between centuries-old stone walls, this house in Vulpellac, in the Baix Empordà, restored by Clara Lleal, recovers the calm it has treasured since the fourteenth century
More than a renovation, the project is a reconciliation with the history of the place, it silences the noise accumulated over decades so that a centuries-old architecture can breathe again as it deserves.
Nordest Arquitectura rehabilitates the Can Pou farmhouse in the Baix Empordà with respect for its past, letting the stone, the wood and the light speak
The rehabilitation opens onto new ways of living, where the relationship with the landscape becomes an essential part of the experience, creating a balance between memory and renewal.
A! Emotional living&work reinterprets the architecture that shaped the masovers’ houses of l’Empordà
In Solius (Girona), a former casa de masovers recovers the compactness, the stone walls, and the direct relationship with the outdoors that defined Empordà's vernacular architecture for centuries.
Casa Boratuna: a house in the beautiful and little-known Vall del Llémena, in Girona
Architect Victor Bouman develops the implantation as a sequence of stepped terraces that look out over the valley from a privileged position.
This house in Banyoles, sensitively rehabilitated by Estudi Maite Prats, holds fast to a way of living
It is one of those houses that refuses to be erased — that has a way of being in the world, a proportion, a relationship with the street, a manner of receiving morning light, that resists any attempt at substitution.
Clara Crous recovers the architecture of a former carpentry workshop and transforms it into a modern, comfortable and welcoming home
The workshop is still there, recognisable in its arches and walls, while the house settles into it bringing contemporary comfort.
Paola Bagna and Jonas Labbé convert a sheep barn in l’Empordà into a home that preserves the character of the original building
A luminous home, generously laid out, from which its inhabitants can connect with the surroundings and take in the long views across the Empordà plain.
Mas Cadalt: a restored farmhouse for a new way of living in the landscape of Girona
Fran Silvestre restores a former farmhouse in Canet d’Adri, creating a home that preserves the memory of the place while embracing a new way of living, where architecture, landscape, and everyday life meet once again.
The Eleven House: Susanna Cots’ shared home in the heart of l’Empordà
A place of quiet intensity, where architecture, memory and everyday life intertwine naturally. A house that remains open as a shared space, a territory of encounters and a vital synthesis of a trajectory.
Susanna Cots explores the relationship between matter and perception in this home where copper acts as a guiding thread
Beyond its material dimension, the metal becomes a narrative device that unfolds the spatial experience and defines the identity of the whole.
Silvia Mallafré restores an 18th-century farmhouse in Girona, adapting it to contemporary ways of living
The intervention unfolds within that delicate balance between preservation and transformation, aiming to recover a house that returns to life after years of abandonment.
Clara Crous designs her own live-work home in the Empordà, a place to explain her architecture
Initially designed as her own home, the house has become a natural extension of the studio, a place from which to explain her way of designing. “Architecture is not meant to be seen in photographs — it has to be experienced,” says the architect.
Casa Tres Patis develops an interior geography that revisits Mediterranean tradition through a contemporary lens, with an emphasis on the pleasure of inhabiting
This project confirms the line of work developed by Twobo Arquitectura, an architecture that emerges from the dialogue between climate, place and ways of living.