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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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GATPA és un equip d’arquitectes que es reuneix puntualment per desenvolupar encàrrecs públics, habitualment al voltant de dos temes: equipaments docents i arquitectura d’impacte ecològic positiu.
Un equip de treball amb el clar objectiu de donar un servei d’alta qualitat, basat en les característiques pròpies per a la redacció d’aquests tipus de projectes, conformat per professionals altament especialitzats i amb una àmplia experiència per a desenvolupar les diferents àrees i tasques proposades en el pla de treball.
Combinar les virtuts de diversos despatxos de diferent índole, per tal d'oferir un ampli ventall complementari que abarca desde l'experiència en redacció de projectes de tamany mitjà_gran per entitats i administració pública, fins a la delicadesa de la petita escala. Així com l'experiència i interès en la docència de l'arquitectura, tant a nivell nacional com internacional, com el seu reconeixament a nivell de premis i distincions.
Ens agrada entendre el nostre ofici com:
ECO-LÒGIC
Els nostres projectes s’adapten a les condicions favorables d’un ecosistema determinat, modificant-ne només l’imprescindible, per crear hàbitats que funcionen en simbiosi amb el seu entorn. Transformem llocs per fer-los habitables, consumint el mínim d’energia, sense generar residus, i utilitzant tècniques i materials locals. Desenvolupem amb especial rigor objectiu la diagnosi de cada projecte, per poder organitzar un pla fet a mida i donar una resposta específica per cada cas.
PROPER
Treballem només en el territori on vivim. Hi estem arrelats, i en coneixem totes les seves potencialitats.
Treballem amb i per les persones, per tal de facilitar-los experiències remarcables en atmòsferes màgiques. Cada projecte és una recerca sobre com millorar la seva vida i el seu estat d’ànim, però també sobre com economitzar, optimitzar i allargar el cicle de vida de cada obra. Fem un seguiment intensiu, diari, del procés de construcció, per garantir-ne la màxima qualitat.
OBERT
Abans de parlar, escoltem. Mai imposem res, la nostra feina és un procés compartit, una cooperació amb els promotors i habitants. Disposem d’una xarxa de col.laboradors -enginyers, biòlegs (qui conexies?), arquitectes tècnics, paisatgistes, dissenyadors (?) - amb una llarga experiència i un coneixement profund dels diversos aspectes del projecte arquitectònic.
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Remodelling and Extension of Sant Jordi Infant and Primary School
GATPA, Jordi Adell, Àlex Gallego i Urbano, Gerard Puig i Freixas, David Tapias Monné
The aim of the project is basically the refurbishment and extension of the Sant Jordi School (listed building, designed by Oriol Bohigas) to bring it up to date and complement the current classrooms and increase the number of pupils. Specifically, it is planned to enlarge six classrooms, a dining room, the library and the room for the AMPA. The current dining room, kitchen and AMPA, located in the school, will be relocated within the extension and the space freed up will be used basically for psychomotricity classrooms and classrooms for the splitting of pupils. In addition, a series of refurbishment works are being carried out at the connection points between the new and existing parts of the school. Normal building maintenance tasks are not included. There is no action with respect to the structure and roof of the existing buildings. The connection between the kindergarten building and the new construction is made through a canopy, which is used as a connecting element and at the same time protects the children, and which forces the current basketball court to be slightly displaced in a westerly direction. The proposal should consider a possible segregation of the classroom and its independent use from the school, as well as a possible extension of an upper floor. The extension, located on a site adjoining the south side of the existing building, consists of two sections connected transversally with a third one (passageway - hall). In order to meet the different thermal, sunlight and ventilation requirements of the new building and to provide a unified image, a perimeter gallery was built around the entire building made of concrete blocks, the size of the gallery being adjusted according to the orientation. The blocks that make up the façade are combined in different positions to adjust the light. Vertical slats on the west façade (classrooms and library) / Lattice blocks on the east and west façades / Solid blocks on windowsills and blind sections. Inside the classrooms and corridors, exposed concrete elements (recoverable coffers and solid slabs) are combined with warmer wood and cork finishes. -
EU Mies Award
NominatedRemodelling and Extension of Sant Jordi Infant and Primary School
