Masia Can Pi is a listed building dating from the 14th century in Esplugues del Llobregat, an example of traditional Catalan architecture, with a basilica floor plan, cellar and stables. The intervention proposes a transformation that respects its historical identity, adapting it to a new use as a contemporary urban villa. The project has been designed as a balance between the preservation of the legacy and innovation in contemporary living.
A timeless, sober and elegant aesthetic has been chosen. Noble materials like natural stone, solid wood or lime stucco are integrated with a refined formal language, where each architectural element is expressed with honesty. The design avoids the superfluous, focusing on authenticity, calm and attention to detail.
The interior redistribution maximises visual and physical fluidity between rooms. Unnecessary partitions have been eliminated, generating open, luminous and connected spaces. The original scale is preserved, but reinterpreted with modern comfort criteria.
The intervention is grounded in a deep respect for the original architecture of Josep Lluís Sert, understood not only as a built form but as a way of living. The renovation of the Blajot House (1978–1979) has been approached through a careful reading of its spatial logic, its relationship with the site, and its essential materiality.
The project restores the original values of the house—structural clarity, constructive restraint, and the dialogue between interior and exterior—while adapting them to contemporary requirements of comfort, efficiency, and use, without altering its identity or architectural language.
Designed for a new family, the extension does not compete with the original building but rather accompanies it. It is integrated through material continuity, proportion, and scale, reinterpreting Sert’s principles with a restrained and coherent language. More than an addition, the intervention seeks a balance between past and present, where the new is clearly recognisable without disrupting the unity of the whole.
The project understands rehabilitation as an exercise in precision and responsibility: updating without distorting, intervening without imposing, and extending the life of a work while keeping its underlying philosophy intact.
From the street, we see a subtle and elegant curve that makes an impact. Concrete without openings. Complete privacy. It’s a curtain behind which all the magic of this project is hidden, located in one of the most beautiful parts of Catalonia.
The space is privileged. The same house that shies away from the street, opens up inside to light and scenery, cascading down the hillside and making an interior space that speaks its own language: concrete contrasted with black and oak wood, which is how it connects intimately with its surroundings.
In the garden, dry stone and lush vegetation take centre stage, reinforcing the relationship between the hillside and the home.
