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Dreaming Mediterranean houses.

“From the sky […] emanated a vibrant light that gave to each house and each tree a sharp outline, an astonished newness. In the world’s morning, the earth must have sprung forth in such a light.” Albert Camus, “Return to Tipasa” (Trans. Justin O’Brien) Since Ulysses’ initiatory journey from a burning Troy to his homeland…

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The world on a brocade fabric

His passion for art, history and Barcelona, prompted a financier, collector and intrepid traveler to hang his unpolluted white suit with Panama included in a main floor apartment located in the Call, the old Jewish Quarter of Barcelona. But before this, he had already sheated inside his working overall, during a long season dedicated to rebuilding the foundations of this lordly 18th century property, whose structure had been seriously damaged by a bombing during the civil war. All wooden floorings and ceramic tiles were removed, discovering the wooden beams and ceramic filler blocks. With the help of estyrodur molds, new reinforced concrete beams were placed and connected to the existing beams by steel pins and sewed to the perimeter walls with high strength resins mortar. The same work was performed at the level of the main walls, repairing an endless number of cracks and breaks and unifying the height of the lintels on the go.

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A whiff of ‘le Corbusier’ above the rooftops of Barcelona

High above the city of Barcelona, at the foot of the Tibidabo, lies a small refugium, which allows to stressed out metropolitan to disengage from the hustle and bustle of every-day-life.
Even in the times of the ancient Roman Empire, people knew about the beneficial effect of nature on the human body. For the time being the epitome of an ideal residence was the ‘Villae urbanae’ with its magnificent gardens

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