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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 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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In 1984, the architects Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón carried out the second extension of the Sant Pere Cemetery in Badalona. This is located on the east side, notably away from the other groups of niches in the cemetery and separated by a series of squares that take the new intervention towards the lower part of the small hill where the complex is located.
What configures the main strategy of the project is its settlement on the existing terrain. A route is drawn which, due to the presence of successive slopes and the zigzag shape of the path, is unpredictable. This unpredictability is achieved through the natural shape of the terrain tamed by retaining walls that further accentuate this visual play that provides a more intimate route and leaves the space of the niches, located at the end, more secluded.
The route is understood as a transition from very open and sober spaces, such as the first concrete square, which passes into a second square, still open but more secluded by the topography and with a large mural on the paving, also in concrete, which according to the architects represents an image of love. This gesture gives access to the niche area, which is more dispersed and surrounded by vegetation. Unlike the niches in the other areas of the cemetery, which are arranged in rows, in this case they are grouped in isolated reinforced concrete blocks measuring about six by seven metres. This, together with their sloping position, makes each block an intimate and personal space.
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Sant Pere Cemetery
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The project expands the Badalona cemetery along the unspoilt mountainside and creates a geometric order that allows the development of routes around this slope. The niches are grouped in a series of cubes that always maintain the same dimensions and that guide the implantation of the cemetery along the slope. A second grouping scale is formed by right triangles that overlap and allow the slope to develop. The project is the result of the intersection of these two formal guidelines with the topography of the land. The arrangement of the triangles favours the regularity of the cubes along the route, while opening up the views towards the city at the end of the steps that save the slope. In the end, the final image of the cemetery is determined by the slope, which fixes the altimetry of each group of cubes, so that the topography of the slope remains intact after the intervention. -
Extension and Interventions in the Cemetery of Sant Pere
Viaplana / Piñón Arquitectes, Heliodoro Piñón Pallarés, Albert Viaplana i Veà
In 1984, the architects Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón carried out the second extension of the Sant Pere Cemetery in Badalona. This is located on the east side, notably away from the other groups of niches in the cemetery and separated by a series of squares that take the new intervention towards the lower part of the small hill where the complex is located. What configures the main strategy of the project is its settlement on the existing terrain. A route is drawn which, due to the presence of successive slopes and the zigzag shape of the path, is unpredictable. This unpredictability is achieved through the natural shape of the terrain tamed by retaining walls that further accentuate this visual play that provides a more intimate route and leaves the space of the niches, located at the end, more secluded. The route is understood as a transition from very open and sober spaces, such as the first concrete square, which passes into a second square, still open but more secluded by the topography and with a large mural on the paving, also in concrete, which according to the architects represents an image of love. This gesture gives access to the niche area, which is more dispersed and surrounded by vegetation. Unlike the niches in the other areas of the cemetery, which are arranged in rows, in this case they are grouped in isolated reinforced concrete blocks measuring about six by seven metres. This, together with their sloping position, makes each block an intimate and personal space.