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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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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 (1974) per l'Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB-UPC). Estudi Professional a Barcelona compartit amb Manuel Gómez des del 1980. Professor associat, Càtedra de projectes II del Departament de Projectes Arquitectònics de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya des del curs acadèmic 1976-1977.
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Martinet School
Mestura Arquitectes, Jaime Blanco Granado, Humbert Costas Tordera, Carlos Durán Bellas, Manuel Gómez Triviño
On a plot of reduced surface area, a ground floor is organized in the shape of a "U", around the preschool playground, which frees up the rest of the plot for the primary school playground. The classroom has been conceived as a volume of three floors in which the kindergarten classrooms, oriented to the south, have direct contact with their own courtyard through a porch. A south-facing corridor, protected by a latticework of ceramic pieces, gives access to the primary school classrooms which, located on the first and second floors, receive light from the north. The lattice works on several scales, from Ronda de Dalt the main façade of the school is very visible, and it integrates into the landscape of large containers of the neighbouring industrial estate, while what stands out in the middle distance is the three-dimensional geometry of the pieces. From the inside it forms a double façade that controls the light and creates an interior landscape of colours, lights and shadows, which change over time and with the movement of the observer. -
Prefectura de la Guàrdia Urbana
Mestura Arquitectes, Jaime Blanco Granado, Humbert Costas Tordera, Carlos Durán Bellas, Manuel Gómez Triviño
La prefectura per a la Guàrdia Urbana a Lleida es un equipament de nova creació que significa la materialització i posada en marxa de l’edifici principal d’aquest cos de seguretat i protecció a la ciutat, amb l’objectiu d’adaptar-se a les necessitats i requeriments que aquests centres de seguretat demanen a l’actualitat. La volumetria general adopta una forma de U en planta, a l’entorn d’un pati interior que s’obre als espais enjardinats protegits del carrer Salmerón. L’edifici es posiciona segons les alineacions a vial de la Ronda de la Seu Vella, en contacte amb els seus vessants verds, i el carrer Pallars, a fi i efecte d’alliberar espai a l’àmbit de l’accés principal des de la cruïlla Prat de la Riba - Salmerón. Existeix aquí una zona arbrada i protegida de gran magnitud que representa un contrapunt a l’edifici i alhora referència visual des de el interior. El pati, tractat com un espai interior obert, articula i jerarquitza els diferents usos a l’interior del centre i al mateix temps omple de llum totes les dependencies. La fisonomia general es la d’un cos compacte pel seu tractament petri de les façanes exteriors, enlairat sobre el nivell del terra mitjançant un sòcol de formigó, però alhora lleuger i transparent allà on es necessari obrir-se, els àmbits d’accés externs i l’espai d’atenció als ciutadans, així com a les façanes que donen a l’interior del pati. L’edifici s’estructura en quatre nivells, soterrani per espais de garjoles, magatzems i aparcament; planta baixa, espais d’atenció al ciutadà, vestidors, briefing i office; planta primera, espais per a les diferents policies i serveis administratius; i planta segona, espais per a la sala de comandament, sala de crisis, transit i espais de direcció i intendència. -
Mostres d'Arquitectura (Lleida)
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Edificis de Nova Planta, d´Us PúblicPrefectura de la Guàrdia UrbanaMostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
Shortlisted. Category: Edificis d’Ús No Residencial de Promoció PúblicaMartinet SchoolBibliography (8)
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