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The main activity of M A T T E R S is intervention in the archi-tectural heritage; Heritage understood as material and cultural legacy that has survived to the present day, and it becomes a collective good. We consider as heritage items listed buildings and conservation areas, as well as more traditional buildings that become the nearest and unprotected heritage, configurating the most genuine of the territory character.

Documentation and communication of cultural heritage is an essential part of our activity. The preservation of heritage elements depends mainly on their collective consideration . In this sense we participate in the realization of geometric sur-veying, documentation of restoration processes , preliminary

works to define future interventions and content writing for publications and outreach materials aimed at specialized and general public.

The core team consists of:

Clàudia Sanmartí i Martínez \\ Architect by the ETSAB 2000 \\ Postgraduate in Architectural Restoration: from structural analysis to intervention technologies , writing a Doctoral Thesis in progress, inside the Master “Construc-tion Technology”, specialty restoration and rehabilitation.

Oriol Gili i Fort \\ Architect by the ETSAB 2002, specialty Intervention in built heritage \\ Focused on design and development of exhibition projects.

Gemma Serch i Andreu \\ Architect by the ETSAB 2001, specialty Intervention in built heritage \\ Postgraduate in Scientific Museology by the IDEC- UPF, focused in de-sign and development of exhibition projects.

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We are part of the Architectural Association for the Preserva-tion and Intervention of Architectural Heritage (AADIPA – Ar-chitects Association of Catalonia COAC) and the Association of Restorers of Architectural Heritage (arpArq).

Workshops and Conferences attended

2014 XXXVIIè International Conference. Sacred Heritage , AADIPA & COAC, Barcelona2014 Scratchwork Coat in-situ Workshop. Fórum Ibérico de la Cal FICAL. Barcelona.2013 XXXVIè International Conference. Heritage buildings and energy efficiency , AADIPA & COAC, Barcelona.2013 in-situ Workshop of Stratigraphic Analysis of Elevations, ARPQRQ, Lleida. 2012 Seminar : Lighting in exhibitions: lighting design fo-llowing conservation guidelines. The light and its effects on artworks. CRBMC. Culture Department . Generalitat de Cata-lunya. Valldoreix. 2011 Seminar: Artistic Stained Glass. History and first approach to preservation and conservation methods. CRB-MC. Culture Department. Generalitat de Catalunya. Valldoreix. 2011 XXXIVè International Conference. Fortificactions. Inter-ventions in defensive heritage , AADIPA & COAC, Barcelona.2010 Organised and participated in the XXXIIIè International Conference. Gardens: from artifice to restoration. AADIPA & COAC, Barcelona.2009 XXXIIè Curset. Way and back architectures. Colonial, In-dian and Modern Heritage in Cuba and the Caribean, AADIPA & COAC, Barcelona.2006 XXIXè Curset. Patrimoine divisé, patrimoine partagé. Intervention sur l’architeture des XIX et XXème siècles en Mediterranée, AADIPA & COAC, Barcelona.2005 Seminar: Analysis and restoration of historical fabrics. Progress and analysis of security and reinforcements.Organi-zed by UPC, ISCARSAH, ICOMOS, Generalitat de Catalunya and Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología.Barcelona.2005 Seminar: Interventions in historical facades, Barcelona city council and COAC. Barcelona.2000 Ist Bienal of Monumental Restoration. Architectural He-ritage Service of the Barcelona Provincial Council (SPAL) and PARTAL Academy. Barcelona.

Teaching and Lectures

2015 Communication “The Patronage. An opportunity for the enhancement of vernacular heritage. Case Study:The Elsa Peretti Foundation and Sant Martí Vell”, at the 38è Curset AADIPA. Tradicional Architecture: Essence or form. An open debate on the intervention in vernacular architecture. 2014 Workshop coordinator of Stratigraphic Analysis of Eleva-tions. ARPARQ, Barcelona.2014 Lecture at XIVth TECHNICAL MEETING ON CONSER-VATION: Architectural Conservation, a Team Work. CRAC. Barcelona2014-2015 Open House Barcelona. The Art Nouveau site of the former Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.“Green” itinerary.

2013 Lecture “Study of the original techniques applied to the restoration works” at the Refurbishment Sessions, Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site, CAATEEB.2014 Lecture “The Administration Pavilion of the former Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau: Interdisciplinary tune” at the Sessions for the Refurbishment of historical interior spaces, organized by the Associació de l’Estudi del Moble (AEM). DHUB.2008-2013 Professor of Posgraduate Degree in Restoring Interior Spaces of BAU-Design College of Barcelona. Sub-ject: Technical Resources.2010-2015 Guest professor at Postgraduate Course in Refurbishment of Escola Sert-COAC, Barcelona.2011 Guest professor at Postgraduate Course in Refurbi-shment of CAATEEB, Barcelona. 2011 Lecture in Simposio internacional sobre bóvedas tabicadas (International Simposium about Timber Vaults) in colaboration with José Luís González Moreno-Navarro, Albert Casals and Belén Onecha. Valencia.2011 Lecture in VII Congreso Nacional de Historia de la Construcción (National Conference of Construction History) in colaboration with José Luís González More-no-Navarro, Albert Casals and Belén Onecha. Santiago de Compostela.2010 Organized the1st Session about Traditional building techniques. Lleida.

Key Expert reports

2015 Assistance consulting for the restoration of the silver gothic ensemble located at the presbytery of the Cathedral of Girona. Graphic support to restorers in phases of documentation and intervention,constructively conceptualization, vector maps and implementation of R & D for mapping of damage. 15’ video report as divulgation material. IPCE // URCOTEX.2014 Report on the heritage values of the building Ateneu Flor de Maig (Barcelona). In collaboration with T.Vilanova and M.Tatjer.2014 Study for the project of dismantling, restoration and assembly of the old Philately Numismatics Monje (Bar-celona). In collaboration with Josep M. Miret and Mireia Campanyà.2009 Technical report about the refurbishment of the old Agricultural Cooperative to host cultural and commercial uses, Riudecanyes.2008 Preliminary Master Plan of the Heremitic asset of the Montserrat mountain.2008 Planning. Listed Buildings of special architectural or historical interest.Sarral.2006 Historic and constructive analysis of the Torrella Mill.2005 Documentation works for the Plan of intervention in the Urban Landscape Sabadell (XIXth Century urban fabric)2005 Integral Intervention project in dwelling areas at the Ripoll river (social, economical, planning, architectural, ….) Technical reports about historical fabrics for private and public clients.

MATTERS Rethink and Project Architectural Heritage

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Type : Restoration \\ Intervention in Equity

Program : Convention Center

Site : c/ Sant Antoni Mª Claret 167, Barcelona

Area : 4.300 m2

Stage : Built

Year : 2010 - 2013

Client : Private Foundation of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i

Sant Pau

Authors : J.Nogué (ONL arquitectura )+ C.Sanmartí, O.Gili & G.

Serch (MATTERS)

Contributors : Mª J. Gracia, L.López, P.Majó, J.Morros, M.Villa-

verde, M.Saliné, J.Bonet

The pavilion is part of the modernist enclosure assembly Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, included in the cu-rrent catalog of historical and artistic heritage of the city of Barcelona, and a UNESCO world heritage site in 1997.The original project was designed by architect Lluís Domè-nech i Montaner, and is part of the first group of pavilions that were built between 1902 and 1944. It is located in the south extrem Enclosure Hospital as the representative entrance of the enclosure.The hospital complex had reached a state of functional collapse and after the transfer of health activity to the new hospital, the restoration of the facades, west and central part, took place in ordrer to recover and restore the origi-nally projected image.The facades, made so strongly historiscista, recover their integrity: fabrics, sculptures, mosaics, decorative elements, and configuration of openings (doorways and windows). The important archival documents preserved in the hospital (and other external centers) has provided guidance throughout the process.

RESTORATION OF FACADES OF THE ADMINISTRATION’S PAVILION (HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU)


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Type : Restoration \\ Building Intervention

Program : Convention Center


Area : 4300 m2

Stage : Built

Year : 2011-2013


Sant Pau

Authors : Joan Nogué (ONL arquitectura) + C.Sanmartí, O.Gili &

G.Serch (MATTERS)

Contributors : Mª J. Gracia, L.López, P.Majó, J.Morros, M.Villa-

verde, M.Saliné, J.Bonet

The pavilion is part of the modernist enclosure of the assembly Hospital de Sant Pau, included in the current catalog of historical and artistic heritage of the city of Bar-celona, and a UNESCO World Heritage 1997.Initially contained the uses of management, accounting, performance, archive and library of the enclosure. Over the years it was adapted to other functions (college dorm, hospital emergency room, ...) and all the facilities and services they needed. In 2009 the building had reached a state of functional collapse.

The intervention process has allowed a detailed study of the original systems and building techniques, and return to enjoy the superb quality of the plastic domenechian spaces. The restoration was conceived from a holistic point of view: structure (spatial and supporting), closings and finishes are significant and valuable part of the heri-tage building. Understanding and reuse of construction techniques and applied arts have allowed the recovery of a building that had been disfigured with time.

RESTORATION OF THE INTERIOR SPACES OF THE ADMINISTRATION’S PAVILION (HSCSP)


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Program : Adaptation to public visit of an archeological site

Site: Cabrera de Mar (Barcelona)

Area : 450 m2

Stage : Preliminary project

Year: 2013

Client : Diputación de Barcelona, Cabrera de Mar City Council

Authors : C.Sanmartí, O.Gili & G.Serch

Contributors : P.Majó

The archaeological site is located within the village of Cabrera de Mar, in a parcel that until 1997 had agricultural industry The excavations uncovered a public bath, a resi-dential area and a potter oven, with a chronology that goes from II BC to 80/70 a.

The aim of the intervention is to adapt the archaeological site for public visits, so they can highlight the archaeologi-cal findings, enhance its equity and improve casings exca-vated structures to ensure their preservation. The proposal should allow future excavations that have yet to be carried out in the field and contribute to the enhancement of the remains by the musealization of the site.

The importance of the urban image of the proposal, studying its viewing from the outside and the use of new technologies as a platform for release of the site, configure the other relevant features.

PROTECTION AND ADAPTATION TO PUBLIC VISIT THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF CAN ARNAU


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Type : Retail \\ Building Intervention

Program : Shop - Art Gallery

Site: Rambla Catalunya 54, Barcelona

Area : 180 m2

Stage : Built \\ Desappeared

Year : 2014

Client : Private

Authors : Clàudia Schneider, G.Serch

Contributors : Xavier Roca (Run Design)

The new space of the designer Isabel de Pedro was loca-ted in a place with a long tradition related to art and fas-hion at the Rambla de Catalunya. Joan Prats moved part of the facade and interior equipment from Ferran Street and adapted it to the new location. As for their suitability as an art gallery, the bill was commissioned to Josep Lluís Sert and Jaume Freixa (which were finalizing the draft for the Miró Foundation in Barcelona).

The new proposal raises adequacy of minimum interven-tion, aimed at maintaining continuous reading of space. The new application combines the previous two, first fashion collection and then the art gallery. All equipment is resolved by following an exhibition concept, the minimum possible elements to meet the functional requirements, and the logic of reversibility of any proposed intervention. Fashion collections and art collections will change, kee-ping the dynamic and mutable space character.

BOUTIQUE-GALLERY ISABEL DE PEDRO


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Type : Restoration \\ Building Intervention \\ Museology

Program : Informative center


Area: 1200 m2

Stage : Competition \\ 2n prize

Year: 2014


Sant Pau

Authors : V.Garriga, Toño Foraster (AV62 arquitectos), C.Sanmar-

tí, O.Gili, Gemma Serch (MATTERS)

Contributors : Mª J. Gracia, P.Majó, S.Sgueglia, C.Gilmour, G.Bi-

ggi

We face the competition as an opportunity not only to de-fine a museum proposal, but also an opportunity to return the building to the memory and today citizens, multiplying the narrative effects (scientific, historical, epic, teaching ...) of museographical content.We understand that the building is the central and most important part of the Museum. Museum visits must begin by recognizing and interpreting the place. A place that is not only stone, but above all it is a witness of an intense process of transformation of the society of his time. Our proposal therefore is based on the potential of the building itself, understanding that this is the jewel of the collection, as well as one of the heritage sites most consistent and least known of the city of Barcelona. An undulating mu-seum threadlike structure and a transparent screen that grows and colonizes the space is proposed, while it can accommodate all types of content (physical and virtual). The system is completely reversible and does not endorse or modify in any way the structural and spatial system of the nave.

INTERIOR RESTORATION OF SANT SALVADOR PAVILION OF THE HOSPITAL DE SANT PAU AND MUSEUM PROPOSAL


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Program : Adaptation to visit a heritage site

Site : Pl. de la Iglesia de Sant Cugat Sesgarrigues, Barcelona

Area : 54 m2

Stage : Built

Year : 2013 - 2014

Client : Diputació de Barcelona\\ Sant Cugat Sesgarrigues City

Council

Authors : M.Genís, J.Planelles (AGP arquitectes), C.Sanmartí

(MATTERS)

Contributors : O.Palou, R.Lacuesta, P.Majó.

The cold room was located in the underground of the square of the Church of Sant Cugat Sesgarrigues. Its type can be linked with the vernacular architecture, and it’s difficult to date. The space was constructed with simple excavations of argillaceous grounds, cohesive enough, becoming a place of storage of foods with the right condi-tions of temperature and moisture for their conservation.

We used traditional materials such as bricks and lime mortar, to configure the new scale and access tunnel, and have made clay finishings to refer the space that you arrive. These materials have good aging in ambient mois-ture conditions that will have in these spaces. The lighting raises minimal, and the original spatial feeling is recovered with archaeological excavation to define the elevation of historical use and volumetric reconstruction of the fall vault cold room

PROJECT ADEQUATE ACCESS TO A COLD ROOM


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Type: Restoration \\ Building Intervention


Site : Òdena (Anoia), Barcelona

Area: 16 m2

Stage : Built

Year : 2009 - 2010

Client : Diputación de Barcelona

Authors : C.Sanmartí (MATTERS)

Contributors : O.Palou, P.Majó.

The Albarrana tower of Odena’s Castle is dated to the early eleventh century, and is one of its best preserved remains.

The Servei de Patrimoni de la Diputació de Barcelona has restored twice this building: once in 1986 to make a general intervention and again in1999-2003 to consolidate its plaster stone basis.

The project makes a new staircase to allow access from the base of the tower to its postern. It is placed against the walls, behind the tower, in order not to make a visual impact.This new staircase uses contemporary language and materials, clearly distinct from the original. It arises as a self-supporting element, which relies on a solid base which contains the first section of stairs. It also anchors minimally at the tower walls.

PROJECT TO BUILD AN OUTSIDE STAIRCASE ACCESS TO THE CASTLE TOWER OF ÒDENA


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Site: Sant Pere Sallavinera (Anoia), Barcelona

Area : 935 m2

Stage : Preliminary project

Year : 2008

Client : Diputación de Barcelona

Authors : C.Sanmartí (MATTERS)

Contributors : P.Majó.

Boixadors Castle is located on the top of a hill, and the site is composed of different elements surrounded by a perimeter in which various remains of walls are guessed. The chronology goes from X to XIX centuries.

The Heritage Servei de Patrimoni de la Diputació de Barcelona had worked on it several times since 1971, carrying out numerous studies, archaeological research and some interventions of consolidation and adaptation for provisional public visits.

The proposal of enhancement and the whole castle mu-sealization want to make all its elements as comprehensive as possible for the general public.

PROJECT OF RESTORATION AND REFURBISHING OF THE CASTLE OF BOIXADORS AND SURROUNDINGS


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Type : Museology and Museography \\ Adaptation to public visit


Site : La Central de Capdella (La Vall Fosca – Lleida)

Area :

Stage : Built

Year : 2008-2013

Client : La Torre de Capdella City Council

Authors : T.Vilanova, S.Moya, N.Anguera, J.Flos, O.Gili & G.Serch

(MATTERS)

Contributors : I. López de Sta. María (Gargots disseny)

The heritage site is part of the electricity generating system built in the early XX S, which starts in the lake area located at the head of the valley, and continues with the transport system of energy to the metropolitan area of Barcelona - where was the great industrial and urban concentration of the time.The draft musealization of the enclosure of the hydroelec-tric plant is part of a global project to restore the industrial heritage of the Vall Fosca, and complete other actions already initiated previously. It is one of the sites of the Territorial System mNACTEC.The proposal is based on three basic concepts: ensure the safety of visitors - the industrial plant is in service - recover and add value to the various original features that remain scattered in the field, and get some museographi-cal supports unified under a common language performan-ces. The climatic conditions of the area (high mountains) have been determining when materially define the items exposed to weather.

MUSEOLOGICAL AND MUSEOGRAPHICAL PROJECT OF THE HIDROELECTRIC PLANT OF CAPDELLA


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Type : Museology

Program : Temporary exhibition

Site: Exhibition Hall of the Sabadell Art Museum.

Area : 935 m2

Stage : Built

Year : 2007

Client : Sabadell History Museum

Authors : O.Gili, G.Serch (MATTERS)

Commissary : Maia Creus

The 2007 exhibition is a tribute to the period from 1972 to 1979 exhibitions held in the historic Sala Tres from Sa-badell, a space where took place alternative proposals of young artists in the late 70s. We get back together works of artists such as Benet Ferrer, Alfons Borrell, Fina Miralles, García-Sevilla, Francisco Abad, Pep Ferrer, Eulalia Grau ... product of a particular time when the creative act was con-sidered an act of resistance to the conventions (bourgeois) established.

THE “SALA TRES” 1972-1979, ON THE ROUTE OF ALTERNATIVE ART IN CATALONIA


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Type : Graphic and conceptual assistants // Divulgation

Program : Liturgical furniture

Site: Girona’s Cathedral

Area :

Stage : Built

Year : 2014 - 2015

Client : URCOTEX

Authors : C.Sanmartí, O.Gili, G.Serch (MATTERS)

Contributors : P.Majó, M.Fort

The ensemble of jewelry that had configured the Gothic presbitery of the Cathedral of Girona is the most important example in statewide (and probably in Europe). It consists of a baldachin of silver sail shaped, an altarpiece and three processional crosses (two had been the subject of this restoration). All pieces are contemporaries and date from the fourteenth century. The restoration project, drawn from the IPCE (Ministry of Culture) provides for the intervention in the ensemble but also for the comprehensive documen-tation of the whole process.Our participation has been to give graphic support to restorers in phases of documentation and intervention by work constructively conceptualization, vector maps and implementation of R & D for mapping of damage.We have also developed a 15-minute video and divulga-tion material of the intervention, with the presence of the whole team involved, where you can see the most impor-tant moments.

RESTORATION OF THE SILVER GOTHIC ENSEMBLE LOCATED AT THE PRESBYTERY OF THE CATHEDRAL OF GIRONA

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