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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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:
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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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At the beginning of 1993 we were commissioned to build a pre-school and primary education centre (3+6 units), adapted to the new study plans, which entailed the refurbishment and extension of two buildings. Both are located, at different levels, on a plot of land between Pi Street, one of the main streets in the old town of Sant Pere de Ribes, and Arquitecte Cerdà Street, already belonging to the recently formed extension.
The primary school (module A) already occupied the building next to Arquitecte Cerdà Street. Only the structure of its two floors, of prefabricated panels and pillars, is preserved, and it was extended towards the interior of the plot with a new building of substantially similar volume and layout placed between two interior courtyards.
The main part of the program is arranged evenly between the two buildings: the departments, multipurpose room-dining room and service, on the ground floor of the existing wing and the auxiliary classroom on the upper one. The main classroom is located on the ground floor of the new wing, under the gymnasium.
The building is completed with two bodies perpendicular to the previous ones that contain ramps, stairs and unique elements in volumes that enclose the courtyards, occupy them in part and open punctually with their own geometries.
The first of these bodies, like an internal street, directly connects the two classrooms and the gymnasium, and houses the teachers' room and the complementary classroom under its slopes.
The other defines the main façade of the school towards the courtyard with its central porch covered in ceramics. Behind, the double-height lobby visually connects the central courtyard and the large void inside the block and is extended with the library.
The pre-school classrooms (module B) are located in what was the village's first school. Between both buildings, at mid-height, is the multi-sports track, connected by ramps and the library's roof to the indoor circulation system. In this way, a circuit is created that allows you to go around the whole school and appropriate the space of the neighbouring yards and gardens.
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Extension and Rehabilitation of El Pi Primary School
Roldán+Berengué Arquitectes, Mercè Berengué Iglesias, José Miguel Roldán i Andrade
At the beginning of 1993 we were commissioned to build a pre-school and primary education centre (3+6 units), adapted to the new study plans, which entailed the refurbishment and extension of two buildings. Both are located, at different levels, on a plot of land between Pi Street, one of the main streets in the old town of Sant Pere de Ribes, and Arquitecte Cerdà Street, already belonging to the recently formed extension. The primary school (module A) already occupied the building next to Arquitecte Cerdà Street. Only the structure of its two floors, of prefabricated panels and pillars, is preserved, and it was extended towards the interior of the plot with a new building of substantially similar volume and layout placed between two interior courtyards. The main part of the program is arranged evenly between the two buildings: the departments, multipurpose room-dining room and service, on the ground floor of the existing wing and the auxiliary classroom on the upper one. The main classroom is located on the ground floor of the new wing, under the gymnasium. The building is completed with two bodies perpendicular to the previous ones that contain ramps, stairs and unique elements in volumes that enclose the courtyards, occupy them in part and open punctually with their own geometries. The first of these bodies, like an internal street, directly connects the two classrooms and the gymnasium, and houses the teachers' room and the complementary classroom under its slopes. The other defines the main façade of the school towards the courtyard with its central porch covered in ceramics. Behind, the double-height lobby visually connects the central courtyard and the large void inside the block and is extended with the library. The pre-school classrooms (module B) are located in what was the village's first school. Between both buildings, at mid-height, is the multi-sports track, connected by ramps and the library's roof to the indoor circulation system. In this way, a circuit is created that allows you to go around the whole school and appropriate the space of the neighbouring yards and gardens. -
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Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Obra, Projecte i/o Altres Produccions MaterialsExtension and Rehabilitation of El Pi Primary SchoolRoldán+Berengué Arquitectes, Mercè Berengué Iglesias, José Miguel Roldán i Andrade