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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Basílica de la Sagrada Família
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
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AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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Can Ginestar is an old farmhouse, now in the centre of Sant Just Desvern, which has been working as a civic centre for years.
If the farmhouse is a piece to be preserved and valued, the garden that surrounds it is also a reference for Sant Just and the years accumulated on its vegetation have given its trees a unique value.
The library, which could be located in any part of the north garden (and which the urban planning proposed as an isolated piece), would form part of the equipment of this civic centre.
This northern part of the garden is much less used than the rest, due to its slope, orientation and poor accessibility, but it is signified by the presence of large trees.
The project aims to respect the trees and consequently the topography of the land, so that the façade in the garden is moved forward or backward to establish distances and relationships with the trees.
On the contrary, the rear façade uses the boundary with respect to the street as the back of the library and is proposed in continuity with the beautiful and undulating existing wall, which ends with a space open to the natural territory.
The library (facing the garden) is treated as a glazed gallery that seeks visual contact in extension with the large trees. The gallery is resolved with light elements that distance themselves from the massive image of the farmhouse and can be understood as its formal counterpoint.
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Can Ginestar
Only the cellar remains of the original country house, as it was completely renovated. The rehabilitation of 1904 destroyed the beautiful architectural lines that it possessed, characteristics of the Catalan manor house, despite the remarkable interest formed by the final result, classifiable within the Catalan Art Nouveau current of medievalist orientation. It should even be noted that the pre-existing scheme is clearly maintained with a central body of three frames, to which the chapel on the right and a body completed by a gallery on the left are added. The house is in the middle of a garden surrounded by a winding wall. The resulting set contains a large number of elements of medieval reminiscence. It has interesting internal decorative elements, among which the beautiful ceramic details, added in the last refurbishment, and the beams from 1904 stand out. On the ground floor there is a lintel from 1403 and inside another from 1669. While on the first floor there is one from 1703 and crowning the building the one from 1904. In 1904, the rehabilitation project was carried out by Joan Bta. Modolell. It consists of demolition works and reconstruction of the entire hall that contains the gallery, as well as the one-metre elevation of the central part of the roof and the construction of the chapel and the fence wall. It also includes the repairs of the façades. -
Can Ginestar Library
Can Ginestar is an old farmhouse, now in the centre of Sant Just Desvern, which has been working as a civic centre for years. If the farmhouse is a piece to be preserved and valued, the garden that surrounds it is also a reference for Sant Just and the years accumulated on its vegetation have given its trees a unique value. The library, which could be located in any part of the north garden (and which the urban planning proposed as an isolated piece), would form part of the equipment of this civic centre. This northern part of the garden is much less used than the rest, due to its slope, orientation and poor accessibility, but it is signified by the presence of large trees. The project aims to respect the trees and consequently the topography of the land, so that the façade in the garden is moved forward or backward to establish distances and relationships with the trees. On the contrary, the rear façade uses the boundary with respect to the street as the back of the library and is proposed in continuity with the beautiful and undulating existing wall, which ends with a space open to the natural territory. The library (facing the garden) is treated as a glazed gallery that seeks visual contact in extension with the large trees. The gallery is resolved with light elements that distance themselves from the massive image of the farmhouse and can be understood as its formal counterpoint.