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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Títol d’arquitectes a l’Escola Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona el 1974. Despatx propi conjunt des del 1975. Ambdues foren responsables, succesivament de les activitats culturals del Col·legi Oficial d’Arquitectes de Catalunya des del 1975 fins el 1980. Direcció del seminari Indústria i Disseny per a la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo de Sevilla el 1985.
Anna Soler entra l’any 1974 a la càtedra de Composición de Rafael Moneo de la ETSAB de la UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) i continua com a professora de Projectes III i IV, fins a 2005 amb Helio Piñón; de 2006 a 2008, a la càtedra de projectes de Jaume Bach, Projectes IX i X; y de 2009 a 2014 a la Càtedra Blanca de Carles Ferrater.
Silvia Farriol va dirigir l’empresa constructora familiar fins el 1986. Ha realitzat nombroses exposicions culturals. Ha estat Presidenta de l’ARQUINFAD (Asociación Interdisciplinar per a la Cultura de l’Espai) des de 2009 fins al 2018.
Entre els premis més destacats figuren:
- PREMI FAD 82 per l’Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya del carrer Balmes.
- Finalista FAD 89, per l’hangar d’avions de l’aeroport d’El Prat de Llobregat de Barcelona, amb Saenz de Oiza de jurat,
- Finalista d’interiorisme FAD 89, per El Gran Colmado,
- Selecció als Premis FAD 92, pel Frontó Colon, a les Rambles de Barcelona,
- Selecció als Premis FAD 96, per l’Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, a Montjuïc,
- Menció especial Premis REHABITEC 96, per l’Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya,
- Premis BONAPLATA 1997, finalista de restauració per l’Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya,
- Finalista a la primera BIENNAL d’ARQUITECTURA del VALLÈS 2001, com Promoció Innovadora i Qualitat constructiva, per l’Ies Montmeló,
- Selecció als Premis DÈCADA 2002, pel Frontó Colon,
- Selecció als Premis DÈCADA 2005, per l’Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya.
- Selecció als Premis d’Arquitectura de les Comarques de Girona 2012, per l’Ampliació del CEIP Agustí Bartra de Banyoles.
Han exposat la seva obra en el COAC 1985 – “Obra pública a Catalunya”, en el Congrés UIA 1996 – “Arquitectura catalana. L’era democràtica 1976-96”, al Col·legi d’Enginyers de Catalunya 1997 – Frontó Colon, i a l’Exposició d’”Arquitectura Mediterrània” a Tessalònica, Capital Cultural 1997, organitzada per la UNESCO. Sel·lecció de l’ampliació del CEIP Agustí Bartra de Terrassa per a l’exposició d’”Arquitectura Catalana” de la Biennal de Venècia 2012.
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Rehabilitation of Solferino-Centelles Palace
Soler-Farriol Arquitectes, Sílvia Farriol, Anna Soler Sallent
This is a comprehensive rehabilitation and remodeling of a 16th century palace, historically owned by the Solferino-Centelles family, until its acquisition by the Generalitat de Catalunya. The Solferino Palace was ceded to the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1982. In the Archives of the Crown of Aragon, family documentation was found from the 16th century and in it originally belonged to the Centelles family, which is the reason why its name was restored. The building was very abandoned except for the rooms on the first floor, and it had additions in height with rooms for the service. They proceeded to demolish all the added constructions and found a loggia on the second floor, proceeding to its recovery. The Gothic courtyard had undergone an addition in the 19th century consisting of a gallery that joined the two wings of the courtyard at the level of the second floor made with two very slender columns. In the first phase, the Advisory Council was installed on the second floor of the building and the large carpeting was restored. The restored loggia illuminated the old library. The halls were later restored and it was proposed to create an access from Sant Miquel Square for the services of the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia, recovering the Roman thistle pavement that was inside, bordering the new Sant Miquel Square. A large recess absorbing the former openings of an existing ground floor draper's warehouse was studied. The head architect of the then President of the Generalitat, Mr. Jordi Pujol, preferred to invent false Plateresque windows because the official technicians found the Italian interventions excessively modern. -
Aeroplane hangar at El Prat Airport
Soler-Farriol Arquitectes, Sílvia Farriol, Anna Soler Sallent
720m2 hangar at Barcelona's Prat Airport destined for the parking, maintenance and repair of the two planes that make the photogrammetric flights that the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia carries out in order to produce the geographical maps of the territory. On the ground floor there is the parking platform as well as the warehouses, workshops, changing rooms and sanitary rooms, and on the upper floor there are two offices, the flight office room and another warehouse-archive. In the flight office, aerial photographs are assembled with high-precision digital systems - the first step for the preparation of the maps that are made at the institute's headquarters in Montjuïc. The project was conditioned by the specific regulations of the airport regarding the regulatory height, of 9m in total, and the type of structure, which had to be light and removable. A space metal mesh was projected and, taking advantage of the fact that the company that manufactured it was building the Palau Sant Jordi in Montjuïc and could build the hangar with the teams it had in the city within the deadlines, we opted for this solution, in the form of a curve, subtle and aerial, which was mounted on the ground and raised in its entirety by two cranes and supported on the metal pillars. The closing of the façade to the runways was done with four sliding leaf doors by means of an external triangulated beam that collects them on both sides two by two and leaves completely free access to the interior of the ship, 30m wide. The roof and vertical facings are made of sandwich panels, the roof ones are made in situ (11cm thick), and the vertical ones of the standard type of 3.5cm. The interior floor was painted with four coats of white epoxy paint at the request of the maintenance technicians. This makes it possible to quickly determine, with a single drop and depending on its colour, which are the specific fluids that are in loss in the event of failure. -
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Finalist. Category: Buildings of new plant for public useAeroplane hangar at El Prat AirportColom Pelota Court
Soler-Farriol Arquitectes, Sílvia Farriol, Anna Soler Sallent
The old Colom Pelota Court occupied a large patio, and it was accessed through a narrow property that communicated with the Rambla. This was a building built in 1892, where the photographer Napoleon had his studio and his home. Later it was a pediment and at the end of its existence in the seventies, a dance hall. A partial plan approved shortly before the start of the works allowed the appearance of a square from which direct access to the building was made. The building was demolished in its entirety except for the original façade and the closing walls of the patio’s block. The new 30x36m building was built with six 6m skylights and their respective skylights that allow abundant light to enter the tracks, at a height of 13m. Because the façade faces north, it was possible to make a large part of it in glass to communicate with the public space of the square better, according to the tradition of pediments in the Basque Country. There were three floors of stands for spectators inside that are currently used as a gymnasium. In the Rambles building, there is access to neighbourhood services, exhibitions and open rooms on the different floors.Rehabilitation of the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia
Soler-Farriol Arquitectes, Sílvia Farriol, Anna Soler Sallent
Rehabilitation and remodeling of the old La Caixa pavilion at the International Exhibition of 1929 by the architects Josep M. Ribas and Manuel Mayol as the Institute's new headquarters, previously located at 209-211 Balmes Street. The building was abandoned and only the structure, the coffered ceilings and the great hall with the main staircase could be used. The central nave was 20 metres high with a skylight that was wanted to be kept. Intermediate slabs with a new structure were introduced and an underground floor was built to house the assembly hall. The side aisles had vaults and columns that were kept, leaving the open floor plan with shared space. On the last floor, an intermediate floor was also built, but in this case of wood, so as not to overload the old structure, and separating it from the coffered ceilings. The facilities were placed on the floors and distributed along the side corridors. The roofs were redone to waterproof them, and the walls were lined with Corklinoleum for soundproofing and to be able to use it as a work board.
