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In Premià de Dalt, the intervention begins from a careful recognition of Casa Blajot as a significant late work by Josep Lluís Sert, developed in close dialogue with its client, Josep Blajot. More than a domestic artifact, the house embodies a precise architectural idea: an austere yet spatially generous architecture, deeply rooted in the site, open to the Mediterranean landscape, and shaped through a measured balance between abstraction, climate, structure, and everyday life. The project is therefore not conceived as a reinterpretation from the outside, but as a continuation of that original architectural thought.

The historical study reveals the extent to which the house was defined by Sert’s own principles: a compact volume carefully positioned on a steep site to secure distant views of the sea; a clearly hierarchical relationship between the open southern façade and the more closed, introspective rear side; the use of patios, porches, shutters, and intermediate spaces as environmental and spatial filters; and a geometric discipline that gives the main elevation its abstract and almost monumental character. The house also reflects a highly specific domestic program, shaped by accessibility, broad circulation, and the client’s intense family and social life. These qualities are not secondary attributes, but the very foundation of the project.

From this perspective, the rehabilitation and extension are approached with maximum respect. The project does not seek to impose a new language over the existing work, nor to compete with its presence. Instead, it starts from a close reading of Sert’s spatial logic, material restraint, and relationship with topography in order to preserve the essential character of the house while adapting it to contemporary standards of comfort, efficiency, and use. To intervene here means, above all, to understand: to recognize the clarity of the original structure, the dignity of its proportions, the role of light and shadow in the deep façade, and the continuity between interior life and the horizon beyond.

Conceived to accommodate a new family, the extension is deliberately discreet. It accompanies the existing house through continuity of scale, proportion, and material atmosphere, establishing a respectful dialogue between what is preserved and what is added. In this sense, the project departs explicitly from Josep Lluís Sert’s architectural idea, not as a formal quotation, but as an ethical and architectural position: to update without distorting, to extend without erasing, and to ensure that the life of the house can continue without losing the intelligence, restraint, and generosity that define the original work.

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