The Government promotes the project 'LA VILA. Space research and experience center by RCR Arquitectes

The Government has authorized the Department of Culture to grant a grant to the RCR BUNKA foundation for an amount of 950,000 euros, distributed between 2023 and 2025, to carry out the LA VILA project. Space research and experience center. In this way, the Generalitat de Catalunya collaborates in the financing and initial impetus of the project that the architects, the first Catalans to win the Pritzker Prize (considered the Nobel of architecture) will develop in the Vall de Bianya, in the Garrotxa

THE VILLAGE Center for research and experience of space will be a project promoted by the RCR BUNKA Foundation and RCR LAB·A, with the aim of creating a unique place for thinking, exploring and experiencing space, understanding it from 'a transdisciplinary vision of architecture. LA VILA will be a center of transversal and shared creativity, open to everyone, in a suitable and unique territory of 140 hectares of mountains, forests and meadows, with farming and livestock buildings, in the Vall de Bianya. The intention is for this center to become an international point of reference for thought, reflection, research and experience, as well as a center for the generation of talent, the creation of synergies and a laboratory of experiences, which leads to the generation of new relationships and behaviors The initiative starts from the LA VILA project that the architects started years ago, and now it is being given an impetus to transform it into a multidisciplinary creative center.

RCR Architects

The RCR architects, Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta, have been working together since 1988 in their hometown, Olot, with a team formed by their side. In 2013 they created the RCR BUNKA Foundation to socially stimulate appreciation for architecture, landscape, arts and culture. In 2017 they set up RCR LAB·A, an open architectural laboratory space to develop creative research and transversality.

His works stand out for the special care taken to relate the architecture to the surrounding landscape. The professional activity carried out by RCR Arquitectes over the course of 35 years has been and is the subject of increasing appreciation, both nationally and internationally. The added value in RCR's work lies in the combination of simplicity and experiential complexity, contemporaneity and sense of history, universality and a sense of contextuality.

Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2018, RCR Arquitectes have also received the National Award for Architectural Culture 2005 of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Chevalier and Officier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres 2008 and 2014, respectively , from the République Française, the Gold Medal of the French Académie d'Architecture 2015; they are honorary members of the American Institute of Architecture 2010, honorary members of the RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects 2012, and foreign members of the French Académie d'Architecture 2019.