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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.

Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental 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 Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

With the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

Collaborating Entities:

ArquinFAD

 

Fundació 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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  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

  • Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

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The new head office and service centre of Banc de Sabadell is planned as a transformation and extension of the Landscape office complex that we designed and built for the Banc de Sabadell in 2003.

The existing building consists of a longitudinal bar of offices that follows the geometry of the plot along the B-30 highway and an industrial building intended for archives at the back, connected to the offices by four bridges elevated from the access floor to the building.

The proposal proposes demolishing the existing industrial building to concentrate its buildability in a new volume of offices, so that a large, landscaped area is freed in the centre of the site which becomes the entry point to the different buildings of the new headquarters.

Under this central green space is the complex's service floor (auditorium, cafeteria, rest room, gym, training rooms, commercial area, bank office, infirmary, etc.) with direct connection to the office buildings, and below this, two parking floors connected at level with the existing ones.

With this strategy we managed to change the character of the place, which goes from being a building in an industrial area, to an office complex around some gardens.

The fact that the new volume of offices is concentrated in a small tower allows not only to free up "green" space but to set the standard for how the bank's future building growth should be on the adjacent plot, also owned by Banco Sabadell.

Author: Bach Arquitectes

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  1. Banc Sabadell Central Headquarters

    Bach Arquitectes, Jaume Bach i Núñez, Eugeni Bach Triadó

    Banc Sabadell Central Headquarters

    In the industrial estate of Can Sant Joan, on the outskirts of Barcelona, on a site next to the junction of the A-7 motorway and the B-30, an office and industrial building are planned, which must have a strong and representative image from the motorway and, at the same time, be well integrated into the landscape. The project proposes a building divided into two parts, in accordance with the applicable ordinances and the requirements of the programme. An industrial building, with access from the north-eastern part of the site, which, if necessary, can function independently of the rest of the building. This building is set back from the boundary of the site to allow for loading and unloading and turning manoeuvres for lorries. The building is rectangular in shape, except at the west end which turns in an arc of circumference to allow the rest of the building to rotate and adapt to the curved geometry of the site. This warehouse has 4 mezzanines on its loading and unloading façade to allow the control, entry and exit of goods and to locate the necessary space for administration. Parallel to this warehouse, a building of ground floor+ 4 floors is developed to house the offices. These are planned without any type of interior distribution, except for the stairwells, lobbies and installations that form compact spaces in the central part and on the northeast façade of the offices. Between the two volumes (industrial building and office building) there is an entrance street at basement level. This street allows the entrance to the car parks, located on this floor and two other basements, passing under four bridges that connect the two parts of the building on the ground floor. The façades of the office building have been designed with different types of prefabricated concrete elements - on the façade facing the motorway, with white prefabricated concrete elements with cantilevered holes, and on the façade facing the warehouse, with white and grey prefabricated elements forming a dynamic game of shades.

  2. Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

    Bach Arquitectes, Jaume Bach i Núñez, Eugeni Bach Triadó

    Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

    The new head office and service centre of Banc de Sabadell is planned as a transformation and extension of the Landscape office complex that we designed and built for the Banc de Sabadell in 2003. The existing building consists of a longitudinal bar of offices that follows the geometry of the plot along the B-30 highway and an industrial building intended for archives at the back, connected to the offices by four bridges elevated from the access floor to the building. The proposal proposes demolishing the existing industrial building to concentrate its buildability in a new volume of offices, so that a large, landscaped area is freed in the centre of the site which becomes the entry point to the different buildings of the new headquarters. Under this central green space is the complex's service floor (auditorium, cafeteria, rest room, gym, training rooms, commercial area, bank office, infirmary, etc.) with direct connection to the office buildings, and below this, two parking floors connected at level with the existing ones. With this strategy we managed to change the character of the place, which goes from being a building in an industrial area, to an office complex around some gardens. The fact that the new volume of offices is concentrated in a small tower allows not only to free up "green" space but to set the standard for how the bank's future building growth should be on the adjacent plot, also owned by Banco Sabadell.

  3. FAD Award

    Finalist. Category: Architecture
    Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell

    Bach Arquitectes, Jaume Bach i Núñez, Eugeni Bach Triadó

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