The crumbling stone walls of an old farmhouse formed the starting point for Casa 1627, a house in Spain completed by local studio H Arquitectes.
In the agricultural landscape of Pals in Girona's Baix Empordà, all that was left of the Mas Geli farmhouse was two outer cyclopean masonry walls supported by large buttresses.
H Arquitectes has restored the structure with new elements in pale stone and concrete, designed to echo the scale and materiality of the old walls and respect the historic layout and materiality of the building.
H Arquitectes has created Casa 1627 in Spain
"[Casa 1627] reinterprets the values of vernacular architecture without renouncing the contemporaneity of the proposal," H Arquitectes explained.
"The project aims to be coherent with the context, looking for the integration of the new farmhouse in the exceptional landscape of Baix Empordà, a continuum of agricultural spaces with the distant, but constant, presence of ancestral farmhouses perfectly situated in the landscape," it added. Where the original stonework of Casa 1627 could be retained and restored on the northern and eastern walls, these areas have been contrasted by the addition of enlarged openings framed by concrete.
It occupies the ruins of an old farmhouse 
"The two stone facades that have remained almost intact, to the north and to the east, are consolidated and rehabilitated, respecting their values and new openings are added," said H Arquitectes.
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