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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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Basílica de la Sagrada Família
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Mar Bella Park
Manuel Ruisánchez i Capelastegui, Xavier Vendrell i Sala
The Poblenou district is part of the industrial expansion of Barcelona, which began at the end of the 19th century and developed around the railway line that connected Barcelona and Mataró. The land, made up of demolition material, was occupied by the freight station, the railway tracks, marginal buildings, playgrounds and various elements of the city's general infrastructure system. The action seeks the articulation on these resident spaces of a set of public spaces and sports and cultural facilities, such as the Mar Bella Pavilion, an athletics track and a nautical base that occupy the existing area between the cemetery, the original core of the neighbourhood and Mar Bella beach. The management plan for the sea front foresees two sectors, Vila Olímpica and Parc de Mar, in which the relationship between the urban façade, trunk and sides of the coastal belt, green spaces and public facilities is different. The Poblenou sports and leisure complex is the meeting point between both sectors. The transition between the neighbourhood and the beach, the continuity between the promenade of Vila Olímpica and that of Mar Bella, the typical landscape of similar areas in other places on the coast, the native vegetation and the recovery of the old extension of railways and the industrial memory of the railway and the ship. These are the themes that mark the origin of the project. The park is shaped by a sequence of dunes that is fixed by the pine forest and that extends from Mar Bella beach towards the neighbourhood. Masses of bushes appear inside the forest. Along the perimeter, riparian trees create the visual boundaries of the park. The structure of the pedestrian routes is a mesh formed by the projection of the streets of Poblenou towards the beach and by curvilinear paths that cross the park longitudinally. The old extension of railway tracks supports intensive use activities while establishing the connection between Poblenou and Vila Olímpica. -
Mar Bella Sports Complex
Manuel Ruisánchez i Capelastegui, Xavier Vendrell i Sala
The Marbella pavilion had to be an isolated building at the northern end of the Poblenou park, with which to start the series of equipment and facilities that in the future should form the sector of the city's seafront, called Parc del Mar. The venue, initially used as the venue for the Badmington competitions at the 1992 Olympics, had to have a capacity of 4,000 spectators; later it would become a sports and cultural centre, consisting of 4 sports courts, seats for 1,000 spectators, changing rooms and restrooms, both its own and the attached athletics track, library, conference room, exhibition hall and outbuildings of the Poblenou Historical Archive. The building is made up of a main volume that covers the sports hall and the public area, and a perimeter base where the cultural centre and the complementary service spaces are developed. The basement is partially buried with respect to the surrounding land, so that part of the built-up area does not become apparent, and the visible height of the building is reduced. The main volume is solved by the succession of diaphragms every 3.75 metres or frames of 50 metres of light, formed by metal beams and concrete screens, which are covered with a light inverted roof. The spaces between screens are closed with practicable glass tops at the bottom and with perforated metal plate tops on the outside, leaving a height of 2.50 metres free from the base, to prevent the direct entry of sunlight and allow different degrees of transparency. The screens penetrate the basement, creating courtyards for lighting and ventilation in the interior spaces. The main entrance to the building is located on the southwest side, next to the athletics track. The first two bays are dedicated to the public lobby, the administration area and the accesses to the different parts of the building. -
FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Buildings of new plant for public useMar Bella Sports ComplexFAD Award
Finalist. Category: Architecture - Public SpacesMar Bella ParkRiumar Primary School
Manuel Ruisánchez i Capelastegui, Xavier Vendrell i Sala
Des del començament ens impressionà el lloc. Travessarem extensions de camps d'arròs sempre canviants (tot terra, aigua, espigues, cel) per arribar a un conglomerat de construccions aïllades, petits volums de material senzill, al mig d'horts i camps. Entrarem dins d'un teixit sense alineacions ni formes urbanes precises, dominat per visions fragmentades i espais intersticials, on usos i elements diversos coexistien (habitatges, granges, pèrgoles, horts, coberts, canals, edificis industrials, camins, arbres...). Vàrem decidir que l'escola havia de formar part de tot això. Començaríem per esmicolar el programa donat (que s'estructura segons nivells escolars i activitats) per sobre del lloc. El projecte està format per edificacions i pavellons d'una planta, independents entre si, que en alguns casos es connecten a través d'una pèrgola. Les peces s'estructuren a través de patis o espais intersticials i s'orienten principalment a Sud -Est i Sud. Els quatre pavellons escolars s'ordenen al voltant del pati d'accessos, alliberant entre ells espais pensats com aules exteriors. Les peces que es situen junt al carrer agafen alineacions que semblen capritxoses i que responen a la dels seus homònims a l'altre costat de la calçada. Els aularis son elements iteratius i tenen una estructura constant de formigó i lloses prefabricades. Els materials emprats en els exteriors volen aconseguir una bona durabilitat i fàcil manteniment i els colors i textures són anàlegs als que es troben al voltant. La relació entre l'aula i el pati no s'estableix a través de finestres, per això el projecte proposa un gran tancament de formigó prefabricat amb vidre laminat que permet una gran transparència, a la vegada, degut al dimensionat dels montants , crea una certa privacitat des de l'exterior. El projecte proposa un porxo al final de cada bloc d'aules pensat per les possibles ampliacions que siguin necessàries, sense que aquestes afectin a l'estructura del conjunt.FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: ArchitectureRiumar Primary SchoolGuàrdia Urbana Police Barracks
DataAE, Claudi Aguiló Aran, Xavier Vendrell i Sala
The project consists of the refurbishment and extension of an existing barracks located in the old Mental Institute of the Holy Cross (1886-1910). Due to the heritage interest of the building, the project rehabilitates the space on the ground floor and proposes a programmatic extension through an underground building in the outer courtyard. Despite the burial, the old hexagonal autopsy room in the centre of the courtyard is preserved for heritage reasons. The underground reduces the visual impact that would involve a conventional programmatic extension occupying the space of the outer courtyard with a new building and gives the new square a condition of public space.Rehabilitation of Joan Oliver Park
DataAE, Claudi Aguiló Aran, Albert Domingo Ollé, Xavier Vendrell i Sala
The project includes the rehabilitation of the Joan Oliver Park and two adjacent areas to improve its integration into the municipality. The rehabilitation of the park consists of two slopes and a central esplanade. The first slope has a moderate slope and has been designed as a resting area where grass has been planted. The second slope, on the opposite side, is defined as the steepest, where steps are proposed surrounded by tall shrubby plants that visually collect the central space of the park in relation to the cars on the street.39 social housing units in Turó del Sastre
DataAE, Xavier Vendrell Studio, Pau Cornellana, Ileana Manea, Andrea Rodríguez, Xavier Vendrell i Sala
The project takes advantage of the peri-urban condition of the site and the 18 m height difference between the streets to divide the building and provide the three new volumes with galleries, introducing green space between them to improve their views, exposure to the sun and cross ventilation. To reduce earthworks in a terrain with several rocky strata, the project proposes an upper building with a 4.20 m cantilever that minimises foundations.FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: City and LandscapeRehabilitation of Joan Oliver ParkBibliography (28)
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