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In this first stage, the catalogue focuses on the modern and contemporary architecture designed and built between 1832 –year of construction of the first industrial chimney in Barcelona that we establish as the beginning of modernity– until today.
The project is born to make the architecture more accessible both to professionals and to the citizens through a website that is going to be updated and extended. Contemporary works of greater general interest will be incorporated, always with a necessary historical perspective, while gradually adding works from our past, with the ambitious objective of understanding a greater documented period.
The collection feeds from multiple sources, mainly from the generosity of architectural and photographic studios, as well as the large amount of excellent historical and reference editorial projects, such as architectural guides, magazines, monographs and other publications. It also takes into consideration all the reference sources from the various branches and associated entities with the COAC and other collaborating entities related to the architectural and design fields, in its maximum spectrum.
Special mention should be made of the incorporation of vast documentation from the COAC Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.
The rigour and criteria for selection of the works has been stablished by a Documental Commission, formed by the COAC’s Culture Spokesperson, the director of the COAC Historical Archive, the directors of the COAC Digital Archive, and professionals and other external experts from all the territorial sections that look after to offer a transversal view of the current and past architectural landscape around the territory.
The determination of this project is to become the largest digital collection about Catalan architecture; a key tool of exemplar information and documentation about architecture, which turns into a local and international referent, for the way to explain and show the architectural heritage of a territory.
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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2024 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Eduard Callís Francesc Rafat Pau Albert Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Mercè Bosch Jaume Farreny Anton Pàmies Juan Manuel Zaguirre Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar OrnaqueCollaborators:
2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès MartinelWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Basílica de la Sagrada Família
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
Fomento
AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data. Please do only fill in the fields you deem necessary to add or amend the information.
The Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya is one of the most important documentation centers in Europe, which houses the professional collections of more than 180 architects whose work is fundamental to understanding the history of Catalan architecture. By filling this form, you can request digital copies of the documents for which the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya manages the exploitation of the author's rights, as well as those in the public domain. Once the application has been made, the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya will send you an approximate budget, which varies in terms of each use and purpose.
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Arquitecte per l’Escola T.S. d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) (1974). Dr. Arquitecte per la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) (1986). Catedràtic de Construccions Arquitectòniques (des de 2006). Professor a l’ETSAB (1976-2017). Director del Programa de Doctorat "Ámbits de Recerca en la Construcció i l’Energia a la Arquitectura" (1987-91), del Màster Universitari “Tecnologia a l’Arquitectura” (2006-09), de la Línia d’Especialitat “Restauració i Rehabilitació Arquitectònica“ integrada en el Máster Universitari “Barcelona-Arquitectura” (MBArq)” (2015-16), i del Curs de Postgrau "Diagnosis, Reparació i Manteniment d’Edificis d’Habitatge" (1989-2007). Ha coordinat les Línies de Recerca de la UPC “Diagnosi i Tècniques d’Intervenció en la Rehabilitació i Restauració d’Edificis (DITEC)” (2005-1013) i “Rehabilitació i Restauració Arquitectònica (REARQ)”. (2013-2017).
La seva activitat professional la desenvolupà fins l’any 1986 conjuntament amb Mercè Jurnet Tusquets. A partir d’aquesta data, la desenvolupà en el marc dels convenis COAC-UPC per a la pràctica professional, centrada en l’àmbit de la reparació i rehabilitació des de l’escala de l’edifici a la de grup residencial. Cal citar entre les intervencions realitzades en aquesta fase la rehabilitació de les façanes de 5 edificis del conjunt residencial de les Cotxeres de Sarrià de Barcelona i la rehabilitació i millora dels edificis d’habitatges del barri de La Mina a Sant Adrià del Besòs, a més a més d’estudis sobre les anomalies constructives i les condicions de seguretat dels edificis de barris com ara el de Marina-Besòs de Sant Adrià del Besòs, el barri de l’Estació de Sallent o el d’Escodines de Manresa.
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Ases 5 Residential Building
Ravetllat-Ribas Arquitectes, Cèsar Díaz Gómez, Pere Joan Ravetllat i Mira, Carme Ribas i Seix
It is an operation that includes two buildings located in the old city of Barcelona, near Santa Maria del Mar’s church. One of them forms the intersection from Ases and Espaseria Street. The projected building, four stories high, is organised with a single vertical core that serves two 40m2 dwellings in each floor. All the service rooms ventilate through a single interior patio that, by the fact of being joint to the neighbouring building, improves the ventilation and lighting of some of its rooms. On the façades, the window voids respect the typical proportions of the buildings around and aims to redefine them through the material used -aluminium- in a proposal escaping from a literal contextual mimicry, looking for an integral solution including framings, jambs, sills, shutters, and even railings. Roof pergolas close and vertical metallic stripes on the edges of the façades are the elements that relate the building with its immediate surroundings. -
FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureAses 5 Residential BuildingAddition of 30 lifts to improve accessibility to 300 homes in the La Mina neighbourhood
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Cèsar Díaz Gómez
The project proposes to place elevators for access to the homes located in 8 buildings of the so-called Mina Vella (Old Mine) since they were the first to be built. The new elevators are attached to the 30 existing vertical access cores in these buildings and clearly show their own volume by jutting out laterally and in height from the buildings, all of them exempt linear blocks of 6 floors with two apartments per landing. This seeks to increase the visual dynamics of the public space between the blocks, opting for a clearly distinguishable and externally contrasting solution based on prefabricated reinforced concrete panels supported by structures of this material or metal ones. The formal and chromatic uniformity of the boxes of the new 30 elevators adapts to the various singularities of access to the ground floors of the blocks and aims to harmonise with the changing characteristics of the façades of each one. In the interior, the coverings surrounding the expansion of the landings are solved with plates of thermo-hardened resins, following the same criterion of contrast with the existing one followed on the outside in relation to the façades. Both the project and the construction management phase have been carried out within the framework of the COAC-UPC agreements, in which the architect Cèsar Díaz has been the leader, with the participation of the Jornet-Llop-Pastor studio, and the authors of the Transformation and Improvement Plan of the neighbourhood, such as Emili Hormías, Marta Urbiola, Josep I. Llorens, and Félix Pardo, among many other architects, technical architects and scholarship students.