Carles Enrich   Spain   The site of the this project for the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) is a narrow plot that was a marés stone quarry, on the outskirts of the municipality of Palma. The shape of the building, which contains eleven social-housing units, complies wit

Carme Pinós Carles Enrich   Spain   The Catalan team formed by the practices of Carme Pinós and Carles Enrich won the competition to remodel the Lourizán, a parish of the Galician municipality of Pontevedra. The premises are currently home to the Center for Forest Research, and will co

Carles Enrich   Spain   This tower recreates extreme building situations for the training of firemen – using double and triple spaces, spiral staircases, cat ladders, wells, doors, windows, etc. Cantilevered balconies are used for rappelling exercises and vertical rescue dr

Carles Enrich   Spain   The Rec Comtal is one of the most important hydraulic infrastructures of Barcelona, having suppled the city with water and irrigated the territory of the Besós agricultural basin from the 10th century to the mid-20th. Because of urban growth, a large

Carles Enrich   Spain   Since its blasting during the First Carlist War, Jorba Castle has been little more than a hodgepodge of ruins high over a small town of the Catalonian comarca of Anoia. But the earth moving carried out in the course of what was to be a simple adjustm

Carles Enrich   Spain   The old church of Santa Eulàlia in Gironella was built in the mid-14th century and since then it has been repurposed several times. In 1907 the building acquired a civil use and suffered a series of alterations derived from its different activities –

Carles Enrich   Spain   Sustainable growth needs are satisfied through different actions: occupying the empty dwellings, filling up the historic center, establishing guidelines for future growth, and recovering the typical terraced topography of local economy...

Carles Enrich   Spain   The Barcelona practice of Carles Enrich undertook the restoration of one of the two faces of the defense tower at the castle of Merola, the only remnants of the 13th-century construction in Puig-reig, a municipality of the comarca of Berguedà. The 20

Carles Enrich   Spain   The project in Nou Barris is a strategic plan by phases that aims to enhance natural cycles and biological exchange with other neighborhoods, introducing social housing, new facilities, community gardens, and outdoor sports areas... [+]

Carles Enrich   Spain   Located on the banks of the river Llobregat, Gironella is a Catalonian municipality split in two: on one side of the river is the town’s gridded extension; on the other is the historical core, perched on a hill, which for accessibility reasons has be

Carles Enrich   Spain   The proposal preserves the site’s character as a void, and transforms it into an urban vegetable garden; in exchange, it increases the action area to its immediate environment and inserts small housing-factory modules in the existing structures.

The youngest generations of architects have demonstrated that Catalan architecture can well pursue courses deviating from the cosmopolitanism of disseny and Barcelona. It is true that the teaching and practice of the profession in Catalonia has to a

It was to highlight the eroded footprint of a 12th-century castle that the Catalan architect Carles Enrich set about restoring the Merola Tower in Puigreig, a municipality of Barcelona province. The project was urgent, following the 2016 collapse of

Pere Joan Ravetllat Mira   Habitatge i Ciutat