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The project to expand and rehabilitate the Gon-Gar Workshop involves the reorganization of an organically growing industrial cluster consisting of two industrial buildings and the owner’s home, which make up this agricultural machinery repair company.
The project consists of the conversion of an abandoned pre-existing warehouse into an office building (Building B2), and the construction of a new open-plan industrial building attached to the former, which will be used as a mechanical workshop and exhibition area (Building B3). In town planning terms, the recovery of the pre-existing warehouse and the construction of the new industrial workshop blend the complex into the surroundings, consisting mainly of three-story terraced houses with a gable roof constructed rhythmically every five meters.
The project gives form to the new urban front of the cluster with the definition of a new corner façade perimeter facing south and east that responds to the needs and characteristics of its interior space and, at the same time, to its integration and adaptation to the urban landscape. The project is thus conceived as a double intervention with very different characteristics.
The transformation of the old warehouse is implemented through various specific actions that interrelate with the pre-existing features, such as the formation of a new double space, the opening of new windows and new skylights to improve the lighting and spatial conditions of the building, and the construction of lightweight wooden structures to define private offices and furniture.
Meanwhile, the two buildings are functionally connected inside on the ground floor thanks to the opening of new connections in strategic places that allow the transit of machinery and products between the different buildings in the complex. At the same time, on the first-floor level, the new workshop incorporates an attic built with laminated wood that houses the company’s new meeting room.
Finally, the reinterpretation of the traditional geometric and compositional rules of Benissanet’s residential urban fabric makes it possible to integrate and establish the necessary urban continuity between the new workshop, the existing warehouse, and the surroundings.
Architect: NUA arquitectures (Maria Rius, Arnau Tiñena, Ferran Tiñena)Design Team: Technical architect: Teresa Arnal / Structural calculation: Windmill Structural Consultants SLPClient: Tallers Gon-Gar SLPhotographer: Adrià Goula