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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Vilafranca Primary Healthcare Centre
Josep Ferrando Architecture, Josep Ferrando, Pedro García Hernández
LOCATION The building is located at the confluence of two streets of very different character and section, but of great importance for Vilafranca: on the one hand, Pelegrina Avenue, which is the bypass of the town, with a fast-track section, a large traffic density and few pedestrians; on the other, the Igualada road, as a great promenade that connects with the centre of Vilafranca. The new outpatients clinic understands and responds to the place through a clear, clean and articulated volumetry: a low body that grows in the corner, at the meeting of the streets, marking the entrance to the building and becoming the new door to the city. PROGRAM The building is projected from the void, the patios articulate the volumetry and the spaces, guaranteeing the perfect illumination of all the spaces and favouring the privacy that a healthcare building requires. The articulation of the patios achieves domestic and human proportions of the waiting rooms, the steps and the rest of the spaces for relationships, favouring a comfortable use with quality visual and lighting relations. The lower body incorporates the entire program for public use, leaving the most private parts on the upper floors of the entrance volume. MATERIALITY The materials used also respond to a double scale: on the one hand, the precast concrete pieces give the volume its character as a public building, as a new access door to the city; that contrasts with the interior, white, clean and bright, where the materiality is the light itself, which floods the spaces through large windows framing the relationships between the interior and the exterior. The glass and the windows move in and out in these large sheet metal frames, establishing different spatial relationships with the exterior and with the patios, which guarantee the intimacy and privacy of the consulting rooms and waiting rooms. -
Moià Fire Station
Josep Ferrando Architecture, Mar Puig de la Bellacasa i Delàs, Manel Casellas Oteo, Josep Ferrando, Pedro García Hernández
A compact, austere building that gives prominence to the structure as an expression of its presence in the territory. A sequence of porticoes perpendicular to the street and the landscape project asymmetrical overhangs that enhance the transparency between the two parts of the territory, constructing a plane 7 metres above the ground that seems to float above the fields. A neutral and modular element that will easily allow for future extensions. The double scale of a portico embedded in another portico, like a Russian doll, resolves the coexistence between the domesticity required by the fireman who lives in the park and the size of the lorries that live in the garage. A single gesture that systematises and unites. The industrialisation demanded in the competition to build the Park in the shortest possible time is resolved by means of elements made in the workshop and assembled on site. A laminated timber skeleton forms the double pillars (to give slenderness) and the beams braced by these pillars. Wooden sandwich panels modulate the façade in a checkerboard pattern that shades the relationship between interior and exterior according to their uses. A construction based on the efficiency of materials, where no waste is produced due to its industrialisation and where CO2 is fixed through the use of wood - a material symbol of the 21st century and an ideal choice due to its low conductivity compared to, for example, steel. The material is structure, protection and enclosure at the same time. -
Mostres d'Arquitectura (Comarques Centrals)
Shortlisted. Category: Buildings of new plant for public useMoià Fire Station