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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Arquitectura - Edificis de Nova Planta, Obres de Reforma o Rehabilitació d'Edificis ExistentsFECSA Headquarters and Les Tres Xemeneies ParkFECSA Headquarters and Les Tres Xemeneies Park
RGA Arquitectes, Montserrat Batlle Salvanyà, Josep Maria Gutiérrez Noguera, Pere Riera Pañellas, Josep Sotorres Escartín
Office building and public park located in an urban environment presided over by three chimneys that form one of the most memorable icons of the city. The presence of the atmosphere derived from De Chirico's metaphysical painting is present in all the project decisions. A regular structure of exposed concrete, advanced with respect to the plane of the glass enclosure, forms an abstract first skin of the building which, when approaching the various urban environments that surround it, is covered, according to each case, with the morphological elements adequate to achieve a good urban contiguity. Both towers have a central core and are connected to the building below through the third floor and the basement, so that they free up the ground floor as a public space.FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureFacultat de Ciències Jurídiques de la URVPremis Bonaplata
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Arquitectura - Nova Realització IndustrialWalkway over the Vallparadís StreamCan Mercader Aquatic and Sports Complex
RGA Arquitectes, Montserrat Batlle Salvanyà, Barto Busom Masjoan, Pere Riera Pañellas, Josep Sotorres Escartín
The landscape suitability of the building derives from the spatial strategy established in the cross-section which carefully adjusts to the geomorphological characteristics of the territory taking advantage of the fact that the building is located at one of the characteristic turning points of Barcelona, when the plain changes the angle of its downward slope towards the sea. Thus, while the vessels and the bleachers belong to the topographical section of the land, the rest of the building is included in a large superimposed and almost floating roof, so that the richness of its empty interior space derives from the capture and the visibility of the landscape flows that cross it. On the first floor, everything revolves around a circulation ring that gives access to the various outbuildings and the large corner of the beam that covers the swimming pool vessels is used for the location of the remaining air conditioning machinery, included in the parallelepiped volume of the building.Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
ShortlistedCan Mercader Aquatic and Sports ComplexM88 House
RGA Arquitectes, Xavier Ruscalleda
The project seeks to highlight the textures and materials of the original 1900 house in contrast to the new extension, conceived as a neutral and efficient box built with wood. Given that it is a house between partitions, the original staircase was demolished and transformed into a new entrance of light, a new outdoor courtyard with a tree. The new layout breaks with the traditional succession and hierarchy of spaces. On the ground floor, the garage is transformed into an open access courtyard. The kitchen and living room are open to the garage and the courtyard of the house, reinforcing the concept of the pass-through space. On the first floor, the ‘night’ area is transformed into a ‘day’ area. All partitions are removed and no doors are installed. Only two wooden boxes are ‘built’ to house the bathrooms and wardrobes. The boxes and the central courtyard form a succession of spaces without the need for closures, favouring multiple use throughout the day.Mostres d'Arquitectura (Vallès)
Award-Winner / WinnerM88 HouseBibliography (13)
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