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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Mañé i Flaquer Dwellings
Pere Aixàs i Espar, Sergi Godia i Fran, Juli Laviña Batallé, Josep Urgell i Beltrán
The building is made up of two distinct bodies. The one facing Mañé i Flaquer Street consists of eight small homes, four of which face the interior of the block and another interior body, which was destined for an architecture studio. The construction, intended for housing, fits discreetly into the urban environment in which it is inserted, that is, the old town of Sarrià, with a minimal and subtle language. The composition of the narrow façade takes the suppression of the overhangs as a starting point for the design, which by ordinances could be built but which, at the will of the promoters and technicians, they renounced to execute them and gave place to the flat façade, which will be shown as an effective support for the general composition in narrow streets and old houses. The resignation of protruding bodies ensures the continuity of the façade plans with the neighbouring buildings and provides an answer to the problem of narrow streets, avoiding the confrontation of façades and their openings and making family meetings more intimate. In the unitary conception of the façade, each element is individualised, fitting into the space of the opening, taking as a reference the image of the block’s façades. They are glazed galleries, superimposed like a skin on the structures of the façades, which resolve interior/exterior traffic spaces. Both façades, the interior of the block and the one on the street, are designed as a double skin, forming an intermediate air chamber between the interior of the homes and the exterior. The interior wall is glazed and the exterior, flush with the façade, is made of metal profiles, responding at the same time to a constructive problem and the need to divide the space, as a reference to the scale of the environment. The ground floor is resolved with a small porch, which facilitates the maneuverability of the access and facilitates the independent entrance of the homes and the premises, enabling the vision of the depth of the inner courtyard through transparency. -
FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: ArchitectureMañé i Flaquer DwellingsFAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: RestorationAdaptation of an Industrial Building as a Primary School and a Civic CentreAdaptation of an Industrial Building as a Primary School and a Civic Centre
Pere Aixàs i Espar, Maria Pilar de la Villa Ugas, Sergi Godia i Fran, Xavier Gomà Presas, Juli Laviña Batallé, Josep Urgell i Beltrán
Part of the warehouses of the workshops used by the FIAT car company were adapted for its construction. It seems that the building had been designed by J.A. Coderch, however he did not direct the works. The project was commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science, but was managed by the Barcelona City Council, owner of the land and the building, which considered, together with the Neighbourhood Association, to preserve part of the buildings in the ground floor for the new educational program, complying with the established regulatory requirements and leaving the rest of the surface and building to solve other equipment deficits in the Les Corts District. The project pretends to accomplish two objectives: On the one hand, a school that does not suffer pedagogically and architecturally due to the fact that it is the result of the use of the existing building, designed for a very different purpose. And, on the other hand, that the solution adopted is the result of an in-depth study of the entire municipal property, even if the school project only develops a part of the whole. The projected solution contemplates the following aspects: It maintains the appearance of the sawtooth industrial buildings, in the main body, freeing it from additions that distorted its vision. The industrial buildings are not hidden: they are completed and become the basic visual element of the whole. It maintains the fence as a separating element between the school and the surrounding streets. It powers the ramp between the first level and the overall deck. The school is linked to the neighbourhood, facing the courtyard and the access area. To assign the rest of the respected building, but not intended for the school, to solve the equipment deficits in the Les Corts neighbourhood. The school is linked to the neighbourhood. To emphasize the existing formal interior structure, perfectly compatible with the new teaching program. The presence of free spaces between buildings are intended for complementary educational activities as an external extension of the classrooms. The distribution of the classrooms and the complementary outbuildings are projected along two parallel axes that formalise two orthogonal corridors, joined to each other by the space intended for the services, both lavatories and changing rooms, and the vertical access to the covered floor.