Monastery of “Sant Tomàs de Riudeperes”

The convent, originally built in 1.045, has grown throughout its history from a Romanesque church to a large Renaissance building, with small interventions from the Baroque period and a last expansion from the modernist one.

The building presented some serious structural pathologies that had already involved some urgent intervention procedures, but it was still necessary to definitely consolidate the cloister, which had started to suffer the collapse of some of its ceramic vaults and wooden beams on the deck. Being respectful with the building, original materials tried to be recovered by applying their original construction methods, which were in the building already ,and looking for a powerful and simple intervention, the structural reinforcements were leveraged to light the architecture in a contemporary way. The intervention is reversible, all the constructive systems and materials used are overlapped on the existing architecture showing themselves as they are in a very direct and sincere way.