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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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The building follows a courtyard with three longitudinal corridors, so that the central one becomes a complex interior lighting device, which assimilates the whole set to a cloister. Working with a small budget, Gaudí chose to use a very narrow parabolic arch, repeated numerous times, which allowed him to solve the central distribution corridors and at the same time the openings of the façade. The central courtyards allow dimmed light to reach the ground floor by means of successive steps that let the light pass through indirect routes. It is worth noting the simplicity with which the joinery has been solved: inside, the glazed leaf partitions take on abstract forms without any symbolism. The typical window of the façade consists of a rectangular blind, embedded in the mass of the factory, which covers the opening itself, which takes the form of the reference parabolic arch.
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Les Teresianes School
The building follows a courtyard with three longitudinal corridors, so that the central one becomes a complex interior lighting device, which assimilates the whole set to a cloister. Working with a small budget, Gaudí chose to use a very narrow parabolic arch, repeated numerous times, which allowed him to solve the central distribution corridors and at the same time the openings of the façade. The central courtyards allow dimmed light to reach the ground floor by means of successive steps that let the light pass through indirect routes. It is worth noting the simplicity with which the joinery has been solved: inside, the glazed leaf partitions take on abstract forms without any symbolism. The typical window of the façade consists of a rectangular blind, embedded in the mass of the factory, which covers the opening itself, which takes the form of the reference parabolic arch. -
Extension of the Teresianas-Ganduxer School
PichArchitects, Teresa Batlle Pagés, Felip Pich-Aguilera i Baurier
The main challenge was to propose an extension in a protected environment, where the presence of the first building designed by Antoni Gaudí flooded the complex. Several locations for the new construction were studied and it was decided to locate the extension in the most suitable place so as not to affect the visibility of the Gaudí building. The new volume respects the height and distances of the adjoining buildings and is functionally linked to the existing sports pavilion. The building had to speak of its time, without turning its back on the textures of the existing building. Thus, a ceramic woven façade was chosen, which acts as a large lattice, and light and luminous elements in the interior of the school. This double skin that thermally and luminously screens the interior allows freedom and flexibility in the distribution of the windows and functionally necessary opaque elements. -
Evacuation staircase in the Teresianas Ganduxer protected site
PichArchitects, Teresa Batlle Pagés, Felip Pich-Aguilera i Baurier
The project involved detailed work to explain and agree with the heritage of the Barcelona City Council on its impact and its definition to integrate with the pavilion designed and built by Gaudí. After analysing the structure of the pavilion and studying the different possibilities for the location of the evacuation staircase, a staircase was proposed on the outside, delimiting it to the central bay of the side façade, in the interest of respecting the existing modulation. Its position coincides with the end of an interior corridor that gives access to all the classrooms and connects longitudinally with a second staircase. The access volume of the Gaudí building is taken as a reference, as well as some of its lattices, its rhythms, transparency and texture. The project proposes a volume and closure with a traditional ceramic composition in lattices, with the express interest that the façade of the existing pavilion can be seen through it and the different periods of intervention can be understood. The staircase is designed with prefabricated metal elements assembled on site. The project carefully studied the view of the ‘Edifici Gaudí’, both from the outside of the site and from the inside. The proposal allowed passage all around it, as well as dignifying a residual space in the school.
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