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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.
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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 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:
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Arquitecte. Titulat el 1973 per l’ETSAB. Treballà per a Antoni Coderch abans d’establir el seu propi estudi al 1974. Professor a l’Escola de Barcelona des de 1977 a 2010. Ha format part de nombrosos jurats de concursos d’arquitectura. Destaca la seva obra realitzada a les Illes Balears tals com la Casa Estel·la (1980), la Casa Ca na Putxa (1983) o l´hotel Sal Rossa (1992); A Barcelona l’Hotel OD, i a Girona el Col·legi d’avocats (2005) o la Bodega Mont-Ras (2015)
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Clos-Rahola House
La disposició d’uns volums cúbics de textura blanca, flanquejats per unes oliveres, donen a aquesta casa una connotació més d’agrupació, fugint absolutament d’una posició enfront al mar més palatina. Veurem com s’assimila perfectament aquesta idea de poblat mediterrani en una costa salvatge i agresta, com a colofó de la línia pirenaica. Un pavelló amb una gran porta indica el garatge, i flanquejant a aquest, trobem una escala que descendeix en angle arribant a un portal amb un jardí tancat i geomètric situat lateralment. L’accés divideix la zona de l’estar de la resta de l’habitatge, quedant el menjador i la cuina disposades en una mateixa línia, metre que tota la zona de dormitoris es troba en un altre pavelló més baix. Des del menjador, una escala de fusta condueix a la zona reservada dels pares amb un estudi, un dormitori i un bany. Un pati tancat amb una olivera queda situada darrera de la cuina, creant un buit que qualifica encara més els desnivells i la volumetria de la casa. -
School of Hotel and Tourism
El projecte es planteja a partir de les dades de l’emplaçament: les vistes al mar, la presència d’una platja propera i, al davant, la silueta del poble de Cambrils. El programa, d’una gran complexitat, ha estat abordat en dues fases d’actuació: la primera fase desenvolupa el programa del segon cicle de formació professional. Per a aquesta fase s’han disposat dos cossos: a la planta baixa, les cuines i els restaurants en un volum quadrat. El segon cos, de dues plantes, queda superposat al primer i allotja el programa hostaler i escolar. La segona fase desenvolupa el programa del primer cicle i s’ubica en un cos prismàtic de tres plantes i un annex d’una planta. L’entrada al primer edifici té lloc lateralment, per mitjà d’una estructura exempta de murs de grans dimensions. El jardí queda dividit en dues zones: la primera, a l’entrada, té un caràcter més funcional, pavimentada amb panot i grava. La segona part, al davant, és més naturalista, amb terrasses i talussos enjardinats, en contacte amb la platja i les vistes al mar. -
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NominatedSchool of Hotel and TourismAlfonso Comín Square
The Collserola Knot urbanisation project is based on the precondition of placing a football field in the centre of the square. This centrality divides the space into two well-defined fragments which, due to their urban situation, have different characteristics. The upper one, under which the II Ring Road runs, has the character of a viewpoint. The lower one, given its proximity to streets with high urban density, is basically designed as a garden square. In the upper square, an umbracle is built from where you can enjoy excellent views of the city of Barcelona and the sea. A concrete wall separates the umbracle from a garden area with a building that gives access to the Traffic Control Centre building, located in the basement of the square. This part of the square is more active and has been designed in a way that leisure activities can be carried out, from theatre related ones to a wide variety of games. The Traffic Control building is an underground project, so that it does not take up a large volume overall. On the surface, an eleven-metre-diameter skylight, the elevator, the staircase and the access hall stand out, projected as the intersection of different cylinders.UPC School of Informatics and Telecommunications
The commission included three modules in the central part of the University campus. The module B.3 was designed was designed in the first phase, with a highly modulated structure both externally and internally. In module B.3, the façades facing the square and the back have a different treatment than the sides. In the first, the structure is apparent and together with the solar protection slats they form a foreground plan. At 60 centimetres, a second closing plane is located using transparent glass. In contrast, the side façades are opaque, made of brick and leave the staircase and elevator core exposed. In the second project, modules B.4 and B.5, the structural mesh organises the façades of the complex with factory wall enclosures and openings with glass. Both projects use a pressed brick, with a joint design that prevents you from seeing the mortar, which produces the effect that the factory wall is very uniform.Civic and Healthcare Centre and Town Hall
The project is considered as an urban integration option for the building, within a larger civic and cultural complex in the town of Sant Esteve de Sesrovires. The current casino theatre, the day care centre, the garden area, the square and the project of the new building are considered as a unit within the current structure of Sant Esteve de Sesrovires, building a large area where citizens can participate and develop their activities, avoiding the disintegration of each of the architectural actions, in a population of 1,500 inhabitants. Located on a rectangular 10x42 metre plot, three of its façades border different streets and the fourth one adjoins the existing day centre. The project is proposed in two volumes with different formal characteristics, separated from each other by half a level and joined by an exterior ramp/street that gives access to each of the outbuildings, so that each of them communicates directly with the outside. In the basement, taking advantage of the existing unevenness, we find the health centre, with its independent entrance from the central part of the plot. The exhibition and conference room raised by means of pilotis receives a formal treatment that, due to its joint volumetry, is directly related to the more urban buildings, the theatre, the casino and the gardens. The rest of the programme, national police car park, post offices, associations’ meeting room and room for the youth, are located in the container building capable of admitting any change of programme.Girona Official School of Languages
L’edifici, un bloc aïllat envoltat d’un espai enjardinat que s’estén en totes direccions, forma un conjunt escolar juntament amb la nova Escola d’Hostaleria i, per les seves dimensions, actua com a element vitalitzador d’una àrea bàsicament residencial. Un contenidor de 80 metres de llargària i 3 plantes allotja les unitats repetitives, com les aules, els seminaris, els serveis de planta i els nuclis de comunicació. La biblioteca, la sala d’actes, el bar i l’administració queden individualitzats en tres volums aïllats i provoquen, des de l’exterior, un joc de llums i ombres entre l’edifici de les aules i la resta. Totes dues parts de l’edifici queden unides per un espai central que fa la funció de vestíbul d’entrada. Des d’un punt de vista jeràrquic, és l’espai més important de l’escola i, si es té en compte la freqüència horària dels canvis d’alumnes, assumeix un paper de centralització i relació.Lawyers' Association of Girona
Construcció de la nova Seu del Col·legi d’Advocats. Es planteja un edifici diàfan que connecti el passeig del riu amb la plaça dels Jutjats i albergui les diferents funcions d’un Col·legi professional: administració, gerència, atenció als col·legiats, Sala d’Actes, aules de formació, informació, torn d’ofici i espais comuns de relació. El nostre objectiu fonamental és resoldre la formalització d’aquests aspectes de manera clara, directa i transparent, on l’ordre estructural, de les façanes i de les circulacions verticals, facilita la lliure organització de les plantes donant-li el to d’edifici modern, públic i funcional que precisa la seu d’un Col·legi professional. La singularitat de l’edifici expressada en la forma i materials de la façana i les plantes més públiques, fa que sobresurti com un edifici representatiu. És en aquest sentit que en planta, malgrat les dificultats que presenta la forma del solar, s’han agrupat les circulacions verticals en una mediana, alliberant la resta de l’espai a les diferents distribucions de cada una de les plantes, sense descuidar l’acompliment de la normativa contra incendis. L’estructura en pòrtics molt amplis, permet espais oberts sense dependències puntuals, podent adaptar-se la planta a les seves funcions específiques. Les façanes es plantegen de forma diàfana amb un mur cortina de vidre transparent, deixant veure l’interior de l’edifici i aprofitant al màxim des de l’interior les vistes privilegiades que te el solar sobre el riu i el Casc Antic de la Ciutat de Girona, sobre la plaça i els Jutjats, però sense descuidar el control climàtic de l’edifici mitjançant un sistema de “brise soleil”, que variarà segon l’orientació de la façana. La pedra de les lames i la façana, el vidre i el metall causen una combinació perfecta per explicar la modernitat, singularitat i sobretot representativitat de l’edifici, i una integració fàcil amb l’entorn i la ciutat.Còrsega Dwellings
The project develops the construction of 30 homes, premises without specific use and a garage with a capacity of 68 parking spaces. It is a new building that maintains the existing façades of Còrsega Street and Caputxins passage, while all the remaining construction is demolished. A maximum volume is defined in six floors and a series of voids are practiced which at the same time allow a more appropriate encounter with the neighbouring building. It is a new building with façade maintenance where the new uses of the building are residential on the ground floor, premises without a defined use facing Còrsega Street on the ground and mezzanine floors, and parking on the basement floors. Due to the characteristics of the volumetrics, the 30 homes are distributed in a total of eight different typologies. The lower and upper floors are defined by two premises facing the street (one of them cornering the Caputxins passage), the main entrance to the building with the caretaker's area and facilities rooms, and three duplex with façade and garden at the back; all of them with living room, kitchen, double room, two single rooms and bathroom. Returning to the initial state of the building, the service access door located in the central opening of the passage is cancelled. The first and second floors have an identical distribution, with six homes per floor and access to a common central corridor with two elevators and the protected staircase, which divides the floor between the homes that face the street and those that face the block’s patio. There are two central courtyards, shared by two houses each, and the other two houses face the passage. On the third floor, where the first setback appears on the façade, five homes are articulated. The same program is maintained but without the terrace on the fourth floor. And in the fifth one, the recesses appear on the main façade, transforming one of the homes into a study. The other house will be a little smaller and the other three will remain with the same program. The covered floor houses the enclosures for installations, the solar panels, air conditioning devices and an area of common use for the neighbours designed as a solarium terrace. The three basement floors that make up the building house 68 parking spaces, 30 storage rooms, stairs and spaces for installations. Storage rooms and 15 parking spaces are located on the first floor, while the remaining parking spaces are distributed respectively in 26 and 27 spaces in floors two and three.Extension of the Biology Faculty of the UB
Located on a strip of the site, between the current Faculty and the Sant Raimon de Penyafort College, a set of buildings is planned in three construction phases that will house teaching research uses and rooms for specific technical uses, on the one hand, and a part intended for administration, departments, seminars, library, exhibition rooms and other dependencies for students, on the other. CLASSROOMS - LABORATORIES: NORTH and SOUTH phases The project is conceived as a 170-metre-long container, between Diagonal Avenue and Les Corts Cemetery, where a 50-metre-wide avenue is planned, which connects Joan XXIII Street with the interior of the Campus. At this point, the project turns and runs along the future avenue for a length of 44 metres. It is this façade, together with that of the Faculty of Geology building, that defines part of the character of the Avenue. It is in this central block where the laboratories, classrooms, seminars and other services are located. Structurally, in cross section, the building is defined by two spans of 7.8 and 8.4 metres each; reducing to one when the distance with the buildings around it is excessively small. Along the corridor there are variations in the situation of the pillars, stairs and plant accesses, thus creating different spatial rhythms. From the outside, the changes to the structural section also give variety to the façade, thus breaking the monotony of the type of module. The ground floor is on the same level as that of the existing building. Two upper and two lower floors and an additional basement for parking and warehouses are planned. In the square created between the existing building and the new extension, the library is projected; an underground space, at double height and lit by interior patios. Access occurs independently of the rest of the buildings to give autonomy to their operation. LIBRARY The library, developed in an independent construction phase, serves as a link between the northern phase of the extension and the existing building of the Faculty of Biology. It is distributed over three floors below ground level and the passable roof, which becomes a square to give access to the old faculty, the library itself and the new extension. The program of offices, administration, warehouses and reading spaces are located on the first two levels below ground level. The third basement is occupied by facilities and parking. The main reading area is covered by skylights in order to make the most of natural light while a double space visually communicates and illuminates these first two underground levels. GREENHOUSES The central space of the lot is intended for the construction of two large greenhouses with adequate air conditioning systems in order to reproduce different environmental situations. They consist of a basement floor for the location of large machinery and with systems designed to achieve a high degree of insulation from the outside.Collage Building
Rahola Vidal Arquitectes, Víctor Rahola i Aguadé, Jorge Vidal Tomás
The Collage Building - Teresa Pàmies Cultural Centre is an architecture integrated in the community and connected to the urban landscape as well as Barcelona’s social needs. It is a vertical city project organised by horizontal strata where each of the floors is related to the others by means of perforations and voids. Thus, we have an equipment building that combines several uses: a nursery school, a library, a play centre, a civic centre and an event hall. They are five programs that call for a close relationship with the outside; however, they share a single ground floor. This becomes a permeable and active civic place, which connects the surrounding city with the building and the park inside the block. The result is a collage of different parts, a sequential walk of urban episodes.Electrical Substation, Cooling and Heating Plant and Park
Rahola Vidal Arquitectes, Víctor Rahola i Aguadé, Jorge Vidal Tomás
The commission of the project is the vertical envelope of a new energy plant which consists of an electrical sub-plant and a cold-heat plant located in Poblenou, Barcelona. The decisions refer, fundamentally, to the materials, the colours, the proportions of the architectural elements, doors, ventilation gaps, etc. Given the volume of the project and its location, next to a park (horizontal garden) surrounded by high-rise buildings, the proposed materials are exposed concrete coloured in copper oxide, modulated 3x1 metres vertically. The ventilation gaps of 9.5 and 5.5 square metres will be covered with metallic mesh cut diagonally according to the triangular module of the concrete formwork. The project proposes a vertical garden superimposed on the concrete structure. A structure of cables anchored to the connecting tubes of the formwork allow the controlled covering of the vegetation. The park (horizontal garden) and the façade of the energy-producing building (vertical garden) will form a green urban complex, producing oxygen. Between them a relationship is established between their productive and energetic capacities.Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Edificis d’Ús No Residencial de Promoció PúblicaCollage BuildingWinery in Montras
Rahola Vidal Arquitectes, Víctor Rahola i Aguadé, Jorge Vidal Tomás
La construcció d'un celler i la formació del vi estan lligades a una experiència amb la terra. El vi és olor, color, sabor, cos i essència del raïm. Aquesta formació de sentits i percepcions ha d'anar acompanyada d'un lloc capaç d'emfatitzar aquest procés de transformació. Per a això hem treballat 4 aspectes claus: 1.- El programa del celler respon a la necessitat de produir vi i organitzar una relació amb la masia existent. Per a la producció de vi es disposen 4 naus amb espais intermedis servidors que contenen les instal·lacions. A la primera nau, començant pel costat dret, s'emmagatzemen els estris de desenvolupament agrícola de les vinyes juntament amb els laboratoris, àrees d'embotellament i cambra frigorífica. La segona de les naus està destinada a les tines de maceració del most. La tercera nau emmagatzema durant llargs períodes les bótes i les ampolles en repòs. Finalment, la quarta nau està destinada a l'àrea de tasts, gaudi i emmagatzematge de les ampolles destinades a tal efecte. Un accés en forma de túnel des de la part superior de la Masia cap a la nau de tastos organitza el recorregut dels propietaris. L'accés a les altres 3 naus es realitza directament des de les vinyes. 2.- La humitat de la terra ajuda a la conservació. Enterrem el celler per mantenir la temperatura ideal i definir la plataforma de la Masia. La terra és modelable i al seu voltant es pot espaiar, es construeix espai. 3.- La profunditat de l'espai és l'absorció de so, de buit i d'ombra. La llum organitza l'espai que va des de la claredat a la foscor i viceversa. 4.- Es construeix valent-nos de la tècnica per organitzar l'espai i optimitzar esforços. L'edifici és una plataforma soterrada. La seva coberta enjardinada descarrega el pes de la terra per mitjà de voltes de formigó. El càlcul òptim dibuixa una secció d'arcs hiperbòlics. La plataforma es transforma en un captador i receptor d'aigua que es desa a un dipòsit per a la seva posterior reutilització. els murs de contenció perimetrals amb les terres responen a la millor geometria per descarregar els esforços de compresió de la terra. Es resol per voltes de maó col·locades en vertical que permeten l'entrada de llum zenital.Premis d’Arquitectura de les Comarques de Girona
Shortlisted. Category: Disseny Mobiliari, Arquitectura Efímera i Arquitectura d'InteriorsWinery in MontrasBibliography (43)
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