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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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Soci Fundador. Arquitecte graduat per la UPC-BarcelonaTech (2001).
Finalista als premis FAD pel concessionari BMW Motor Munich (2005).
Professor associat. Universitat Internacional de Catalunya-UIC (2004).
Professor assistent. Departament de Projectes Arquitectònics. UPC-BarcelonaTech (2001-03).
Conferenciant. UPC-BarcelonaTech.
Cap de vendes de basar de platja (1986-98).
Author: Lagula Arquitectes
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Betsaida Changing Rooms
Lagula Arquitectes, Toni Alonso Ortega, Martín Ezquerro Fernández, Ignacio López Alonso, Manel Morante Mediavilla, Marc Zaballa Camprubí
The expansion of the sports complex of the Betsaida club with the addition of new changing rooms and new stands is a commitment project within the neighbourhood. It is located on the border between the sports track and the Masia de Can Rigalt, one of the last traces of the pre-industrial city of Sant Adrià de Besòs. Some of the commitments are reflected in the creation of an access patio at the entrance of the complex. A perforated concrete block lattice screens the access and separates it from the rest of the courtyard. The front of the changing rooms faces the sports court, creating access on the same level. The building becomes a border, a thick boundary between complex and courtyard, defined by the programme and reacting to the conditions of the site. Materialised in wood and U-Glass, the façade acts as a lantern at night. Behind it, 5 changing rooms, the cafeteria and the access area fulfill the programme with simplicity. The rear façade, painted white, curves in response to the shape of Can Rigalt. Completing the set, the deck serves as a grandstand, gathering the emotions and cheers of the spectators. The rear part is materialised in the form of balconies finished in crimson enamelled ceramics. Taking the form of the dressing rooms they cover, and at the same time enlarge the stand and create a square, a viewpoint over the Masia de Can Rigalt. This is the meeting point for the little brothers, who play with their spinning tops while their parents cheer on their brothers and sisters who are on the court. The construction of the extension is economical, simple and typical of the urban periphery. For this reason, the building entrusts its image to its curved geometry, without pretension in the finishes. Lattice shadows, reflected in the curvature of the glazed ceramics on a white canvas as a background, are enough to achieve the conformation of the place; to conform the limit. -
Progrés 127-129 Residential Building
Lagula Arquitectes, Toni Alonso Ortega, Martín Ezquerro Fernández, Ignacio López Alonso, Manel Morante Mediavilla, Marc Zaballa Camprubí
A multi-family housing building between partitions in the old fishing district of Badalona. There are premises on the ground floor and four homes, one per floor. This is a special assignment as it is a case of self-promotion for a family. This implies that the common areas of the building are much friendlier and predisposed to sharing, moving away from the neutrality and anti-vandal predisposition that usually characterises this type of space in conventional housing buildings. The spiral staircase is more of a place to be, well-lit and destined for circulation between the different homes. Access to the apartments is made directly from the elevator that lands in the living room. -
Bitxo House
Lagula Arquitectes, Toni Alonso Ortega, Martín Ezquerro Fernández, Ignacio López Alonso, Manel Morante Mediavilla, Marc Zaballa Camprubí
Passejar pel camp de Graugés, un paisatge de suaus turons entre la Depressió Central i el Pre-Pirineu, descobrir entre els dos llacs, una traça. Una línia quebrada apareix diagonalment i travessa el territori, una línia trencada artificial i buscada que cristal•litza en formigó i maó. Acomodar les terres i modelar futures topografies familiars de la Martina i la Bruna baixant en patinet per la rampa interior d'accés. Primer element de l'espiral que configura la casa i en reconeix l'orografia del terreny natural. Un, la rampa. Dos, la cuina i el menjador on desembarca la rampa. Tres, canvi de sentit, cinc graons i l'estar obert al menjador i al jardí. Quatre, cinc graons més i l'habitació principal. Cinc, canvi de sentit i abocats sobre la rampa d'accés, cinc graons i un dormitori. Sis, els últims cinc graons i les altres dues habitacions. Procurar capturar la llum recurrent del capvespre sota una coberta diligentment inclinada per no ofendre a les autoritats locals àvides de teula àrab color tradicional i, al mateix temps, agenollar-se humilment cap al carrer, pertorbant el mínim al transeünt i acumulant el volum cap al jardí. Mirar de dalt a baix i de baix a dalt, tocar el sostre de formigó amb la mà i amb el cap, l'alçada es dilata i es contrau per delimitar els espais més públics i recollir els més privats. Adequar l'escala de la casa a les diferents situacions que es donen en el recorregut. Una estructura de formigó potent i determinant, necessària per sostenir la pell exterior i guanyar la guerra a la primera batalla. Sumar la resta i tancar l'aixopluc: gelosia de maó, pantalles d'obra i fusteries d’una banda i porticons l'altre. A l'interior s'expressa el formigó en pantalles i sostre, en contraposició a franges verticals de guix impol•lut. Els espais s’acaben de delimitar amb cossos exempts, gairebé com obstacles en el recorregut ascendent. Volums alegres revestits de ceràmica esmaltada de colors vius que acullen tot tipus de peces de servei i esquitxen de llum els espais del voltant. -
Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Edificis d'Habitatges Plurifamiliars de Promoció PrivadaProgrés 127-129 Residential Building
