La Galera “建筑建于1865年，占据了Vilanova i la Geltrú的Gumà建筑扩建的一整个街区，这是城市两个原始中心的老城区周围的第一个主要城市发展。
The building “La Galera” was built in 1865 and occupies a whole block of the Gumà building expansion in Vilanova i la Geltrú, the first major urban growth around the old town of the two original centres of the city.
靠近维拉广场和Rambla Principal，这座独特的建筑是由Joan Samà推动的。一个在哈瓦那的印度富人能够在维拉诺瓦积累重要的财产资产，就像这个住房区，众所周知，几十年来一直是国民警卫队的驻地，但也是其他社会总部和相关文化实体的所在地。
Close to Plaça de la Vila and Rambla Principal, this unique building was promoted by Joan Samà. A rich Indian man in La Habana was able to accumulate an important property asset in Vilanova, like this housing block that is known to be the Civil Guard station for decades, but also for hosting other social headquarters and relevant cultural entities.
关于它的建筑定义，这栋建筑最特别的地方是它的内部承重墙在三个主要楼层都被执行为一连串的拱门。因此，La Galera描述了19世纪中期一个绝对非典型的多户住宅建筑的结构性基础设施，除了一个承重的周边立面外，两个三层高的纵墙被构建成一个大型的拱门系统。
Regarding its architectural definition, this building has as its most peculiar feature that its interior load-bearing walls were executed as a sequence of arches on each of its three main floors. La Galera thus describes an absolutely atypical structural infrastructure for a multi-family residential building in the middle of the 19th century, where apart from a bearing perimeter façade, two longitudinal walls of three heights are constructed forming a large system of arches.
我们的提议是基于使这些由拱门组成的墙体可见，将它们变成房子的焦点，并将它们作为结构节奏的价值。这个面积约为125平方米的住宅有多个正交隔断的分布，隐藏了任何表示支撑拱门存在的证据。
Our proposal has been based on making these walls composed of arches visible, turning them into the focus of the house, and adding them value as structural rhythm. The dwelling of an approximate surface of 125m2 had a distribution with multiple orthogonal partitions that hid any evidence that denoted the presence of the supporting arches.
彻底改变组织是新分布的目的。该项目将厨房放在房子的入口处，并清空了拱门的门槛，以构成一个新的生活和厨房的透明空间，并模糊了现有空间的形态学。
A radical change of organization has been the aim of the new distribution. The project places the kitchen at the entrance of the house and empties the thresholds of the arches to compose a new diaphanous space of living and kitchen and to blur the morphology of existing spaces.
此外，该设计是由房子的不同点的家具件组成的。黑色的家具是一种重复的形式和材料语言，致力于与现有的空间产生明显的对比，在结构系统面前给予一种短暂的性质。
Furthermore, the design is made up of furniture pieces at different points of the house. There is a repetitive formal and material language with the black furnishings, betting on generating a noticeable contrast with the existing, giving an ephemeral nature in front of the structural system.
最后，该项目引入了一个随机的几何形状，用一个吊顶框架来连接不同的干预措施。这个框架试图打破分隔物的正交网格和拱门的序列的原始刚性。在一个规范的框架中，它是更加任意的和破坏性的东西。
Finally, the project has introduced a random geometry with a suspended ceiling frame that joins the different interventions. This frame tries to break the original rigidity of the orthogonal grid of the dividers and the sequence of arches. It is something more arbitrary and disruptive in a canonical framework.
Architects: CAVAA Arquitectes
Area: 130 m²
Photographs: Filippo Poli
Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Mosaics Planas, Adobe, Roca
Lead Architect: Oriol Vañó, Jordi Calbetó
Design Team:Federico Acetti, Laura Antolín, Laura Gutierrez
Clients:Santa Eulàlia 17 SL
City:Vilanova i la Geltrú
Country:Spain