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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.

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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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  1. Garden City of Ribes Roges

    Josep Domènech Mansana, Josep Font i Gumà, Bonaventura Pollés i Vivó

    The Ribes Roges urban complex is made up of streets which are parallel and perpendicular to the seafront. It is bounded by the Passeig de Ribes Roges, the streets of Marcelina Jacas, Legazpi and Álvaro de Bazán and Torrent de Sant Joan, the street of Pere III el Gran and a large part of the block bounded by Passeig de Ribes Roges and the streets of Lluís de Requesens, Pere III el Gran and Isaac Peral. Each block contains several plots occupied by single-family houses surrounded by gardens. Although as a whole it does not present a stylistic unity, it still preserves some of the original buildings, mainly in the seafront sector, which present characteristics typical of the modernist and noucentista styles. The Villa Argentina and the Villa Montserrat (architect Josep Domènech Mansana) are the closest examples to the Catalan Art Nouveau style, as well as Doctor Ribot’s villa (Villa Esperanza) and the Villa Laguarda (both by the architect Bonaventura Pollés Vivó), and the Villa Teresa (Modest Tauler Benítez, architect), which have been preserved. The other villas are closer to the Noucentisme period, such as the Villa Isabel (by Ramon Frexé Mallofré, 1910-1912); the Villa Vivancos (by Josep M. Miró Guibernau, 1923); the Villa Dolors Rutllan (by Manuel Joaquim Raspall Mayol, 1925) and Villa Adelina, and the villas of Joan Robert and Lluís Pàmies (by Antoni Pons Domínguez, 1923, 1925 and 1926). The origin of the Ribes Roges housing development was the initiative of Ms. Anna Raventós de Saurí, president of the Empar de Santa Llúcia, a charitable institution that was to be the beneficiary of the profits produced by the development. Marcelina Jacas, who had considerable wealth inherited from her father and an uncle, both of whom were Hindus, gave the rural land she owned for the construction of the chalets in order to raise funds to support the organisation. The foundation stone for the first 10 chalets was laid in 1910. In the same year, the board commissioned several architects to carry out the construction work and left the municipal architect B. Pollés to carry out the project for the Passeig Marítim and the general plan for the distribution of the plots. The complex is detached from the urban fabric of the city. The Torrent de Sant Joan and the railway line hindered its growth and expansion from the beginning and it was outside the scope of Gumà i Ferran's General Plan and, therefore, of the expansion guidelines set out in the plan. In 1917, the municipal architect Josep M. Miró i Guibernau designed the total development of the sector in accordance with the garden city typology. The construction of the promenade was authorised and the complete layout of the road network and the study of the links with the city were carried out. The study of the layout of the links, although very correct, was never carried out due to the difficulty posed by the location of the Pirelli factory. In 1967, a new development plan allowed an increase in the density of buildings, which led to the abandonment of the garden city idea and the demolition of the original dwellings; this resulted in the demolition of many single-family villas, to be replaced by flat blocks. As a reaction to this trend, a new General Development Plan was approved in 1981, which sought to protect these dwellings by classifying Ribes Roges as a "garden city conservation area".
  2. Villa Argentina

    Josep Domènech Mansana

    Villa Argentina

    Detached single-family building with a garden around it, originally intended for two families. The building is raised above street level and consists of a ground floor and a first floor. The shape of the ground floor is essentially rectangular with a bay window and staircase attached to which a floor has subsequently been raised and covered. There is a side extension for the installation of a kitchen. The roof is made of arabic tiles on different slopes. The load-bearing walls are of common masonry and brick. The floor slabs are of iron beams and tile vaulting. Most of the openings have lintels. Some have stepped lintels. The ground floor opening leading to the terrace has a pointed arch. Exposed brick is used in different parts, such as the stepped brick corbels on the balcony, the chimney, etc. There are decorative elements with glazed ceramic tiles.
  3. Villa Montserrat

    Josep Domènech Mansana

    Villa Montserrat

    Detached single-family house with a surrounding garden. The building is rectangular in shape and consists of a ground floor and a first floor with sloping flat-tiled roofs, from which a square-shaped lookout tower with a pavilion roof projects. The front part is a ground floor with a terrace and an upper pergola. The basement was built later and is used as a garage. The walls are of common masonry and brick. The floor slabs are of iron beams and tile vaulting and of concrete beams and ceramic vaulting. There are openings with lintels and others with pointed arches. There is ornamentation with glazed and brittle ceramic cladding. There are exposed bricks in arches, pillars, gables, corbels, sills and lintels. In the tower there is an important eave supported by corbels. The roof is made of flat tiles, some of which are glazed and form a pattern.
  4. Old Esparreguera Slaughterhouse

    Josep Domènech Mansana

    Old Esparreguera Slaughterhouse

    The Old Slaughterhouse of Esparreguera is one of Domènech Mansana's works that are conceived on the border between Catalan Art Nouveau aesthetics and Noucentisme. Some construction details and the use of exposed brick framing openings still evoke the modernist sources, but the lack of added decoration and the basilica plan and section of the building are already of a noucentist style. In this way, the property, which occupies an area of 300 m2, consists of three naves separated by columns, the central one higher than the side ones, which are symmetrical. The central nave is covered by a gable roof, while the sides are covered with single-sided roofs. In the main nave, the main façade is arranged with respect to a central axis, where the access door is located, in a pointed arch profiled in brick and green glazed ceramic buttons on the imposts. In the gable there is a large window which is also pointed and is divided into three parts by two mullions. On each front of the side aisles there is a large window with a wavy arch, a form that is repeated in the windows of the side façades. The building also receives natural light from the line of windows that open at the top of the sides of the central nave, which repeat the wavy shape of the lintels and are tripartite with single mullions. The cornices are decorated with lace placed under the eaves, and at the ends of this there are stepped ornaments in the form of corbels. The slaughterhouse stopped functioning as such in 1985. Then it was used as a cultural centre and hosted exhibitions, as well as the castellers, the giants and the devils of Esparreguera. It is Esparreguera's Federation of Entities of Popular and Traditional Catalan Culture, users of this equipment, that bring together the different groups. Josep Domènech Mansana was the son of the architect Josep Domènech i Estapà. In 1917 he was appointed architect of the Ministry of Public Instruction, from where he built schools in Badalona, Argentona, Igualada, Esparreguera, etc. He was also the municipal architect of Esparreguera and Sant Celoni, where he designed the Casa de la Vila, the Athenaeum and the Slaughterhouse, and a professor at the School of Arts and Artistic Crafts in Barcelona.
  5. Torre de Can Bonet

    Josep Domènech Mansana

    Torre de Can Bonet

    Torre de Can Bonet is part of the Modernisme artistic movement, reflected in its structures, openings and decoration. Its main feature is a building built from a plinth, which in this case is made of well-fitted stones. From this work, which surrounds the entire perimeter of the house, the walls completely painted in white start, that is, where the opening elements and decorative elements have been arranged. The structure of the house forms a confluence of protruding bodies from a square plan. All the rooms have access to the outside through windows or balconies, which represents a maximum use of natural light (one of the principles and concerns of the time). These bodies all have a ground floor, a main floor and an attic. The type of openings, always based on more or less elongated rectangular windows, is one of the most successful examples of the building, due to the shape of the upper part and the use of exposed brick. On the ground floor there is a combination of round arches and trilobed and pointed variants, with the upper brick framing in some of the cases simulating the typical discharge arch. There are two entrances - one is the main entrance to the house and the other is an exit to the garden. The main entrance has a rectangular door with a treatment of the layout of the bricks which depresses the opening to end in a kind of discharge arch and at the level of what would be the impost, where there is sgraffito decoration. At the top, the door has a protective roof (porch) of glazed tiles, supported by brick permodules and resting on the wall. Below and between the permodules there is a sgraffito frieze with the text "Ave Maria". The roof has a decorative crown of two balls. The second door, considered to be the exit to the garden, has similar characteristics. It has a brick porch supported by columns and on the side attached to the wall. Along the floor, you can see the alternation of windows and balconies with the typologies already described, only adding wrought iron work when it comes to the balconies. The balconies are cantilevered, the slabs are on the support of wrought iron modillions and the railing of vertical bars with circular decorative elements in volute. The upper part continues the treatment of the arrangement of the brick within the three-lobed variants. There are ceramic elements in the impost. At attic level, the openings alternate from two to three and some openings with different types of arches, both round and pointed. Attached between the south-east bodies there is a square observation tower divided into a ground floor and three floors, with the gallery under the roof. Along its walls there are window openings corresponding to the typologies already described, as well as inside the upper part, where there are sgraffito corner elements and different coloured paint framing the open gallery area under the roof. The roof of the tower has glazed tiles combining red and green. Regarding the roofs of the other bodies, it should be mentioned that they are gable roofs covered by tiles with the same combination as before and a ridge perpendicular to the façade. The finish is in straight cantilever breaking the rhythm of inclination with support at each end by means of permodules. At the back of the house, a protruding circular body (like an apse) stands out, intended for the smoking room (ubiquitous space in the distribution of rooms in the house and especially the tower house). It is circular in shape, as evidenced by its projection on the outside, and of a structure similar to garden gazebos as an isolated element of the house. The base is like the plinth that surrounds the house, from which round and smooth support columns decorated with white, blue and yellow ceramic mosaic forming an undulating pattern rise. The entablature is straight forward without mouldings of any kind and from the line of permodules a decoration is formed, first of undulations and spirals, and then a thinner one (a naturalistic effect that perhaps represents water). The sustaining permodules correspond to each of the columns in number and location, presumably the effect is decorative rather than sustaining. The tiles are combined in red and green. On the main façade, at the level of the first floor and above the entrance door, on the right hand side, there is a statue attached to the wall on a plinth, as well as under a canopy, which is made of brick and a conical crown with ceramic mosaic coating. The whole complex is a very successful work of the modernist architect to which we must add, for information purposes, a whole annex of water features that ran along the path from the top to the entrance of the estate, which gives that naturalistic spirit of movement and dynamism that fully characterised the phenomenon of Modernisme, the Catalan Art Nouveau. SHARECROPPING The country house is a building with a rectangular plan, taller than it is wide and which on its main façade shows a ground floor, a main floor and an attic. The entrance can be from the outside of the fence, at the foot of the road, or through the side façade within the boundary of the fence. The two entrances are rectangular doors protected by a roof of three trefoils and the upper one, almost non-existent, with glazed tiles and decorative crowning balls. The door of the side façade has the protection with a gable roof. The window openings have a rectangular formulation. On the ground floor and on the main façade there is a pair of windows - in the "coronella" style - with a lintel arch with a depressed top (reversed funnel feel). On the floor, the rectangular windows continue, with a brick sill and an arch formulation, depressed by the arrangement of the bricks as well as the widening of the lintel giving the sensation of a curtain. In the attic opening there is a window with a lowered arch variant and closer to the discharge arch. The gable roof has little overhangs ending with straight ends. At different points of the façade there are perforated ceramic motifs with ventilation functionality. To the rear of the house there is a lower body with garage functions as well as another auxiliary body below. It is in the same style as Torre de Can Bonet. Summer house from the end of the 19th century. It was built by Josep Domènech i Mansana (1916) for Mr. Manuel Bonet, who was from Tarragona and, after getting married, he moved to Barcelona, where he founded the House of Patents and Trademarks. His only son, Bonet del Rio, was deputy mayor of San Sebastián and of Barcelona, representative of culture and president of the Art Centre. After the Spanish Civil War they wanted to return to the house, but times had changed and they didn’t. Currently, the Generalitat de Catalunya wanted to acquire it.
  6. Escoles Nacionals

    Josep Domènech Mansana

    Escoles Nacionals

    Edifici de planta baixa i pis . teulada a dues vessants . en la façana s'observa una composició que reflecteix la simetria de l'edifici. A la planta baixa hi ha dues entrades que donen pas a dues aules i escales d'accés. els portals d'entrada i quasi tota l'alçada de la 1ª planta estat realitzats amb maó vist i la resta de la façana és estucada. Destaquen: el treball de maó en les obertures de les dues plantes i les decoracions de ceràmica. La façana s'acaba amb un frontó on s'hi inscriu l'escut del poble dels Hostalets fet amb pedra artificial . a les façana laterals s'hi obren finestres i se segueix el mateix sistema de composició. Hi ha un cos adossat a la façana posterior que és de construcció més recent. El terrens eren propietat de Pere Pujol. L'edifici ha estat reformat. A la planta primera on inicialment hi havia les vivendes dels mestres ara hi ha aules. S'ha conservat la distribució del es escales interiors i tot l'exterior de l'edifici. El carrer J. Mestre Ladós va ser urbanitzat a primers del s.XX. Aquest edifiqui forma part d'un conjunt format pels de les cases nº 1,3,5,7.
  7. Sant Celoni Town Hall

    Josep Domènech Mansana

    Sant Celoni Town Hall

    Civil building composed of a ground floor and two landings. The central body is covered on the four sides, and the lateral bodies, with a single floor, have a flat roof crowned with a balustrade. The clock tower stands out of the central body, with a square plan and a flat roof framed by a powerful eaves. An iron pyramid with bells protrudes from this tower at the top. The formal and decorative elements tend towards modernist aesthetics. This building is located in Plaça Major or Plaça de la Vila. The Plaça Major is the most important urban space in the old part of the town, in it there are other representative buildings of the late 19th century and early 20th century architecture.

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