Your Christmas at Casa Coll i Regàs

With the name "Your Christmas at Casa Coll i Regàs", in the months of December and January, visits are organized in the Modernist Christmas traditions.

'Casa Coll i Regàs as a sample of modernist tastes', Materializ'art for Christmas and for Kings with the family' and 'The Christmas mystery of Casa Coll i Regàs' are the proposals that the Iluro Foundation has prepared to give to know the house to all audiences.

Starting in the first week of December, new visits are underway under the title "Your Christmas in the Casa Coll i Regàs". In this way, the Iluro Foundation continues to contribute to promoting cultural heritage by bringing Modernism closer to all audiences.

The new proposal for Christmas visits includes:

Casa Coll i Regàs as a showcase of modernist tastes, a visit tasting to revive the customs of the Catalan bourgeoisie. Evenings, celebrations and Christmas celebrations of the turn of the century are the protagonists of the tastes of this new social elite. Culture, leisure, art, science, fashion and gastronomy in a unique environment.

Materializ'art for Christmas and for Kings with the family, a family-workshop visit to relive the Christmas customs of the late nineteenth century, where a greeting or letter can be prepared to the kings from new forms of production such as impressions in 3D.

The Christmas mystery of Casa Coll i Regàs, in the Christmas season, the Escape Room adapts to allow all audiences to enjoy it. Visit the house, find the enigmas, overcome challenges and tests and decipher the mystery hidden in their rooms.

Casa Coll i Regàs has accumulated more than 5,000 visitors (guided tours, school public, group visits, Escape Room ...) on the first anniversary of guided tours, recently held.

Finally, through the web www.casacolliregas.cat you will be able to acquire new combined products of tickets and exclusive merchandising: Regala Casa Coll i Regàs, give culture.

Workshop of stucco lime calcined or hot for technicians | apabcn

The Delegation of the Maresme, together with the Iluro Foundation, will organize a stucco workshop at Casa Coll i Regàs de Mataró on Friday, December 14, to inform the technicians about the different types of stucco, materials and techniques.

The Delegation of the Maresme will carry out a "Sgraffito or Hot Stucco Workshop for technicians" at Casa Coll i Regàs in Mataró.
The workshop will be done in collaboration with the Iluro Foundation, the owner of the house, and with Oriol Garcia Alcocer Garcia stucco as the speaker. Oriol was in charge of rehabilitating the facade of Casa Coll i Regàs.

The activity will consist of a first theoretical part, where Oriol will explain the different materials, what are lime, marble and pigments, their compositions and masses, the tools for stucco work; the bases for making different stuccoes, stucco sgraffito and iron stucco; Some history of where they come from and how they were made, how they are treated and how they are preserved ...

The second part will consist of a practical part, where Oriol will make an embossed stucco and stucco in situ, and where technicians will be able to practice how the sgraffito cut each one was made with their own sample that they can take away.

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Escape Room: The mystery of the Casa Coll i Regas in Mataró

Motivated to solve the mystery of the Casa Coll i Regas in Mataró, we headed to calle Argentona, 55, where the modernist house designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch is located, a great jewel that the people of Mataró feel very proud of.

In front of the house the guide was waiting for us, who first gave us a series of explanations about the modernist façade and the history of the Coll i Regas family that inhabited it, then we entered the house where we were left speechless. lattices, doors, ceramics, stained glass, ceilings ... that contains the house, but we had not come to this house to make a traditional visit to admire the beauties of modernism, but to solve a mystery.

For this the guide took us to an office on the ground floor where we project a video of Josep Puig i Cadafalch the architect of the house, in which he told us that he hid in his time a very coveted treasure on the ground floor of the house and challenged us to be able to find it within 60 minutes, giving us some rules and advice.

Then we all bloggers to look and scrutinize every corner of the ground floor and also each object, each piece of furniture and each wardrobe. We found some rooms that remained closed with keys. In this way, we found various boxes and objects that had padlocks that were opened with secret codes. Little by little we were deciphering some code that opened a box or object that would lead us to another box or provide us with a clue to follow that did not lead to anything. A very stressful puzzle that without a team of motivated and matched people it is difficult to get to decipher the key of the secret. The guide controlled us the time and we did some other reflection when we asked him to make us review what we had found. This helped us to bring order to our inquiries.

We had very little time to complete the 60 minutes, but suddenly we found a clue that opened a box that contained the final tracks that we needed to complete the puzzle and find the mystery of the Casa Regas. We only had 1 minute and 20 seconds left of the established time, the joy of the group was huge, we had managed to solve it and we had had a great time.

An experience that I recommend to everyone. Do you dare to solve it?

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LA CASA COLL AND REGÀS IS ACCEPTED TO THE CELEBRATION OF THE EUROPEAN LEGENDS OF HERITAGE THAT ARE CELEBRATED TO ALL EUROPE.

A FREE ACTIVITY CENTRATED IN GRADUATED AND VITRALLS HAS BEEN PLACED, AND A DAY OF OPEN DOORS.

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The Casa Coll and Regàs of the Iluro Foundation adheres to the celebration of the European Heritage Days, where visitors from all over Europe enjoy activities to know their heritage in depth.

On Saturday 13 and Sunday, October 14, the visit / workshop for adults with the name of artisanal techniques and new forms of production will be carried out, which will focus on two of the applied arts in the house: stained glass and sgraffiti, as well as the traditional and modern construction systems used by Josep Puig i Cadafalch.

The proposal, aimed at an adult audience, is organized in two parts. First of all, we approach the history of two of the artisan techniques present in the house: stained glass and sgraffiti. We approach these two craft trades through demonstrations using original tools and materials as well as audiovisual media. In the second part of the activity, which takes place on the first floor of the house in the workshop space, some of the designs present at Casa Coll i Regàs will be reproduced. Visitors can familiarize themselves with the new production techniques (3D printing), the concepts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that we are living today and the new materials of the present and future.

Finally, on Saturday 13th from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., an open day is organized where you can see the interior of Casa Coll i Regàs, the work of the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch.

The activities are free but prior registration will be required for workshop sessions to ensure optimum operation.

For more information and reservations, you can contact visites@casacolliregas.cat or by calling 682156765.

What would you do if you were locked in a modernist house? | El Periódico

Successfully public, the Iluro Foundation in Mataró offers the escape room 'The mystery of the house Coll i Regàs', by Josep Puig i Cadafalch
What is the secret that hides the Casa Coll i Regàs de Mataró? If you do not want to be closed forever inside this modernist house, the work of Puig i Cadafalch, the management team of the GEM school in Mataró will have to discover it. This afternoon these professors are the participants of the escape room, "The mystery of the Casa Coll i Regàs", which since the beginning of the summer has been offering the Iluro Foundation with great success. "The intention of this proposal is to bring this work closer to people who would never do a guided tour and offer a more fun way to see the house," explains Pere Cañada, historian and responsible for the pedagogical services of this work.

The game begins with a small explanation of housing, today one of the symbols of the capital of the Maresme, although many neighbors ignore their inner wealth. Professors are no exception. Most recognize that it is the first time they visit it. The history of the house goes back to 1896, when the textile businessman Joaquim Coll i Regàs (1855-1904) bought two houses in Carrer d'Argentona and immediately built his new plant in accordance with the draft drafted by the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1867-1956), which was finished in 1898. A residence that, after years closed, reopened in May 2017 after extensive rehabilitation.

The participants of the escape room initiate the game in a fearful and hesitant manner. A message from the architect telling them that they have 60 minutes to solve the riddle still increases the tension. Unlike other activities of this type, looking for clues in a modernist house of 121 years is a challenge. "During the game they visit the house, but at the same time they look at elements of their decoration," said Cañada. The Coll i Regàs house, both on the façade and in the interior, dazzles with its details. Finally, along the time, one track happens the other, and the mystery is resolved, although there are moments of weakness: "I'm stressing!", One of the participants lamented.

An activity for all audiences
On this occasion, they are professors who carry out this activity, but are designed for all audiences, from young people from 8 to 10 years old, to families or professional groups that are looking for Time Building experiences. "This way of learning has many advantages: you plan on a challenge and then you have a very high motivation to discover things for yourself, a model that follows our school," explains Montse Paradeda, educational director of the GEM school in Mataró . The pedagogue also states that this tool "fosters creativity, teamwork, curiosity, logic, divergent thinking and is a great way to learn for your own".

"This summer they have passed through the houses a total of 415 people, mainly Catalan, but we have also had public coming from France, Russia, England, Germany, Austria, Italy, the United States and Mexico," says Marta Ibarz, director of the Iluro Foundation. A success that has encouraged the Foundation to promote the program of activities, with the aim of turning this modernist house into "a space for learning, leisure and gastronomy", and continue with its rehabilitation. In 2019 this is planned to install an elevator up to the first floor, where the children's workshops are held, and thus extend the visit, although this area is less noble than the ground floor.

At the end of the session the guide of the house groups the participants to the patio of the residence to evaluate the experience. Have they heard each other? Who was the leader of the group? And explains the relation of each track with the history of the modernist house. Then the participants realize that the resolution was not a question of chance. Casa Coll i Regàs is no longer a mystery.