The owners have chosen to recover the building\u2019s artistic and heritage value and have promoted the restoration of the main fa\u00e7ade. The building is currently used as a residential care home for the elderly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At Biohabita!, we have been commissioned, as architects, to carry out this rehabilitation. Since this is a heritage restoration, the construction techniques used are also those we employ in bioconstruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Restoration process:<\/strong> This new mortar, similar to the original, was made by mixing air lime mortar and hydraulic lime mortar with dark-stone aggregates, thereby achieving a mortar with the same performance and an appearance virtually identical to the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some solid ceramic bricks that were in poor condition were also restored\u2014replacing them with new ones in some cases, and in others rebuilding them with NHL 3.5 lime mortar. The window sills featured a dark navy-blue glazed ceramic piece, missing in some places and cracked in others. Pieces with the same appearance were found and reinstated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, a limewater wash (CL90) with a natural pigment was applied, which helps blend the original and new mortars without covering the characteristic textures of the historic renders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The work was carried out by the company CaOh2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1908, Joan Millet commissioned the Modernist architect Manuel Joaquim Raspall i Mayol to carry out a complete remodeling of a farmhouse in L\u2019Ametlla del Vall\u00e8s: Can Xammar de Dalt, in keeping with the style of the period\u2014Modernisme (Catalan Art Nouveau). The farmhouse is currently in the process of being listed as a heritage property… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consultancy-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4967,"href":"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions\/4967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
First, all areas where the existing render had lost adhesion were chipped off, along with sections of Portland-cement mortar that had appeared as a result of past repair works. After this, the areas that were removed were re-rendered and some ceramic pieces were replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/biohabita.coop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ARM-ESTAT-INICIAL-1.jpg\")
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