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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Arquitecte per la Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona l'any 1979 i Doctor Arquitecte per la mateixa Escola l'any 1994.
Desenvolupà la seva activitat professional des del 1979 a Barcelona, al carrer Girona, 55 entl. 1r.
Soci fundador de l'empresa GALLEGO ARQUITECTES, SL.
Professor de Projectes a l'Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, ininterrompudament des de 1979 fins a la seva jubilació.
Professor convidat en diferents Escoles d'Arquitectura d'Europa.
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Association of Surveyors and Technical Architects of Lleida (COAATL)
Franc Fernández, Moisés Gallego Olmos
L’edifici se situa en un solar romanent d’una illa de cases, darrere de les façanes posteriors d’uns edificis d’habitatges d’alçària mitjana. El plantejament del projecte es basa en la creació d’una volumetria que doni una resposta adequada a aquestes difícils condicions. Tot el programa de la nova seu del COAATC queda recolzat en un gran basament elevat respecte del carrer, que afavoreix la col·locació de l’aparcament a sota. La planta baixa allotja l’entrada i la sala d’actes, i fa mitgera amb el fons del solar en dos costats, deixant un petit pati de ventilació entre ells. Les dues plantes superiors queden encavallades sobre l’entrada, de manera que poden ser exemptes i respirar als quatre vents. La dislocació entre el volum de la planta baixa i el cos superior dóna lloc al porxo d’entrada, enfrontat a l’escalinata que puja al gran sòcol. -
Bernat Picornell Swimming Pools
Franc Fernández, Moisés Gallego Olmos
Very little remains of the old Bernat Picornell swimming pools, since the existing buildings have been cut down or extended as needed. The swimming pool vessels are new, larger and better equipped technically speaking. The training pool is covered, the changing rooms are in a different place and there are more of them. Only the old stands for spectators are preserved. They are the witness of a hypothetical refursbishment which has been in fact a new building for the practice of swimming. The current facilities are hidden behind a brick fence that surrounds the plot, surrounded by a dense grove of trees. Both elements act as camouflage that eases their presence, as does the lack of formalisation. Everything is arranged in such a way that the fragments that can be glimpsed behind the walls do not allow its identification as a water enclosure. The external environment is almost unchanged and the same goes for the general implementation. Subtle traces of the old timidity will remain but, at the same time, the new and powerful structure of the roof will emerge, and the new façades that were not there before. Everything is done with the attempt to allow the building to be added to the set of constructions that make up the Olympic ring. -
Nova Icària Municipal Pavilion
Franc Fernández, Moisés Gallego Olmos
Located in a plot on one of the Eixample’s corners, the program required the inclusion of a sports court, cultural facilities and a gym, so that all three uses could work simultaneously and independently. The building conforms to the shape of the bezel and supports the sports court, forming a central box that allows you to control the volume of the set through the stepped roof and the smaller bodies on the sides. The building reaches its maximum height at the corner, decreases towards the interior of the block and resolves the sides with low fences that protect the garden remains and the rear body of the library. This is an interpretation of the Eixample’s corner that compensates for the absence of openings with a delicate articulation of the volumes. The gym hangs from the roof, which ensures natural lighting and frees up space on the floor for the rest of the program. -
L'Olivera Civic Centre and Sports Facility
In the northwest area of Sant Boi there is a green space that creates a funnel-shaped void, closed at the wide end by the rear façades of some buildings. The plot offers the possibility to create a backdrop that does not exist now. The new building is generated with a uniform plan made up of few lines, related to the important scale imposed by the exterior space. The programme suggests the arrangement of three closed buildings within a single enclosure: a residence, a cultural and social building and a sports building. The three parts of the programme are contained in a single enclosure, forming three juxtaposed bodies, and the façade acts as a unifying element. Thus, each part of the programme can be developed independently, once the relationships between the elements have been established. The result is a container of large dimensions, uniform and linked to the scale and the urban requirements of the location. -
FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureL'Olivera Civic Centre and Sports FacilitySports Pavilion and Changing Rooms of Sant Salvador Sports Complex
Antonio Banús i Tella, Moisés Gallego Olmos, Pau Pérez i Jové
La zona on es troba el pavelló és un fragment de ciutat jardí, amb cases unifamiliars dins de parcel·les de dimensions mínimes. L’entorn més immediat consisteix en un gran recinte esportiu marcat pels espais oberts. El disseny del pavelló respon a la dificultat d’inserir-hi un gran volum paral·lelepipèdic i evitar que trenqui l’equilibri existent. L’edificació s’endarrereix respecte de la línia de façana, buscant una implantació semblant a la de les cases veïnes. També s’enfonsa 3,30 metres dins el terreny, de manera que la pista queda semisoterrada. Així es minimitza l’impacte de la caixa sobre el paisatge. L’alçària final del volum gairebé no excedeix la de les edificacions veïnes. Dos murs de formigó tanquen els laterals petits, mentre que les encavallades metàl·liques que suporten la coberta es recolzen als laterals més grans, vidrats i amb lamel·les horitzontals d’alumini per filtrar l’entrada de llum.Tàrrega Municipal Swimming Pools
Gallego Arquitectes, Àlex Gallego i Urbano, Moisés Gallego Olmos
El parc esportiu de Tàrrega forma una vasta esplanada situada al sud de la localitat, separada tan sols per un rierol. Això fa que l’indret pugui gaudir de bones vistes i d’una accessibilitat excel·lent. Al parc es varen començar a construir algunes instal·lacions disperses sense cap criteri d’ordenació, i el nou edifici de les piscines es proposa crear un referent per a la futura implantació de noves instal·lacions. La nova construcció es disposa al costat d’un poliesportiu existent, de manera que tots dos volums formen una unitat arquitectònica i generen un efecte conjunt sobre l’entorn. El nou edifici té dues plantes, i inclou dues piscines a la planta baixa i uns gimnasos a la planta superior. El vestíbul d’accés pren una importància especial, ja que organitza els recorreguts independents de totes dues instal·lacions.
