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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.

Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
Directors arquitecturacatalana.cat

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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental 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 Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

With the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

Collaborating Entities:

ArquinFAD

 

Fundació 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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  1. 49 Endowment Housing and Accommodation

    Vivas Arquitectes, Pau Vidal Pont, César Vivas, Cristian Vivas

    49 Endowment Housing and Accommodation

    Constraints. The project responds to the particular characteristics of the group of five plots that make up this fragmented block of the Eixample and its surroundings. The uniqueness of this group of plots originates in the recovery of a space previously occupied by the railway tracks, turning it into a green and leisure space. This process of urban transformation generates a series of tensions that lie in the coexistence of buildings that respond to different realities. Specifically, the buildings on the adjoining plots with a building depth much lower than that currently permitted mean that the partitions of the proposed building have a strong presence from the bridge on Carrer Marina and from Carrer Sardenya, which means that the future building will be perceived more as an isolated building than as a building between partitions. Implementation. Based on these conditioning factors and programmatic requirements, a building is proposed consisting of two bodies separated by a central courtyard, which functions as a green lung and as a communications space. Of the two volumes, the one that has a façade on Carrer Alí Bei occupies the entire width of the plot and consolidates the front of the block facing this street. The second building is conceived as an isolated building, with its sides treated as façades thanks to their asymmetrical displacement with respect to the boundaries of the plot. These lateral displacements respond to the different realities of the context they face and achieve better ventilation and lighting of the central courtyard, as well as the expansion and appearance of new views over the particular environment in which the proposal is located. Programme. The ground floor is treated as a facility, where all the collective spaces of the accommodation programme are located, incorporating the central and lateral courtyard as communication and relationship spaces. The accesses are through two passages placed at opposite ends of the Alí Bei façade, crossing this built body and guaranteeing the independent functioning of both parts of the programme. On the first floor there are the living quarters which, despite their small surface areas, maintain the character and rhythm of the dwellings on the upper floors. The remaining five floors, which are used for the dwellings, are organised on the basis of the displacement made at the ends of the building. Thanks to the good lighting and the diagonal views towards the Marina bridge, the vertical communications nucleus becomes a relationship space in continuity with the collective spaces already planned in the programme and which are located on the third, fifth and sixth floors of the body with a façade facing the football pitch.
  2. La Chalmeta cooperative housing

    Vivas Arquitectes, Pau Vidal Pont, César Vivas, Cristian Vivas

    La Chalmeta cooperative housing

    The dwelling is understood as a grouping of non-hierarchical spaces. The layout of an organising mesh where all the spaces start from a homogeneous dimension configures the pattern for filling or emptying the building, grouping on both sides of the walkway and adopting different housing typologies of one, two and three bedrooms depending on the number of modules used. Inside the dwellings, the modular spaces follow one after the other from the entrance to the street façade. Grouping, communicating or closing the pieces are the options of use that this flexible typology allows. All the dwellings have cross ventilation through the interior courtyards, which in turn will allow light and sunlight from the south to the interior of the building.

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