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.
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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.
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The Llissach house is part of a complex that is currently located in the town centre. The house is surrounded by a large garden area within an enclosed perimeter.
It preserves part of the original iron fence as well as the entrance gate to the property, with an architectural structure consisting of a wide central iron gate and two side gates framed with pilasters and a cornice topped with pyramidal structures.
Part of the gardens surrounding the tower are preserved within the estate, with a pergola, a water pond and a small house which is probably for gardener's tools. There are also some buildings at the eastern end that were stables for animals, a tower with a water tank on top and the house.
The house is a ground-floor, two-storey building with a hip roof covered with Arabic tiles. The ground-floor porch on the north façade is notable for its series of semicircular arches with red-painted voussoirs that form an open gallery. This composition is repeated on the first floor, although the gallery is closed and the windows are lintelled, with lateral columns with Corinthian capitals painted red. This red decoration around the windows and horizontal dividing elements is repeated throughout.
On the east façade, on the ground floor, there is a structure located in the central part of the façade, with a terrace which is accessible from the first floor.
This house is an example of the first summer holiday houses built in the municipality of Santpedor at the end of the 19th century.
On the eastern side of the estate, bordering the street, there is a group of buildings that had been used as livestock boxes. It is a single-storey building, with a two-storey central element, a gable roof and a series of doors that open into the interior of the estate, with an enclosed outdoor corral in front of some of them. There is red brick decoration on the roof barbican, as well as unique decoration on the façade between the gates. This building also has this decorative mix between the light-coloured rendering of the façade, occasional red brick elements and the grey stone masonry plinth.
Next to the building is an old tower that supports a water tank on the upper level. It is a circular tower with a crown in the form of triangular battlements enclosed by an iron railing and supported by brick pilasters. Below the crowning is an interior space with open windows between the pilasters. Access to this space is via an external spiral staircase that follows the tower. The decoration maintains the characteristics of the whole, with elements of red brick.
There is also a small house that was used for playing dolls, located in the garden, which follows the same architectural structure as the rest of the complex.
This house was built by the Llissach family at the end of the 19th century, as a summer estate in Santpedor. In 1907, land was bought to extend the estate and it is possible that the water tower, designed by Puig i Cadafalch, was built at that time. This intervention is the result of the friendly relationship between the architect and Serafina Jover de Llissach, as can be seen in a series of letters preserved in the National Archive. In 1917 the house was renovated, also bearing the architect's signature.
In 1934 the house and the estate were acquired by the Manresa merchant Joan Jorba Rius.
The last owner of the house created a board of trustees that began the process of building the new school for girls on the grounds of the former Armangué factory. Classes began in this new building in 1968, and it was intended only for girls. From 1973 onwards, joint classes were held in the new Llissach school, which still bears this name.