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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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This architectural complex is located on the right bank of the Llobregat river, on one side of the Bauma bridge, very close to the BP-1121 road.
The Bauma Factory is a construction made up of two buildings, that of Roca i Llubià, the two owners, and the new factory. Both are located on the banks of the river, arranged side by side, following the course of the river, and separated by the Torre del Amo. The first, the older one, built to carry out the finishing and shipping processes, has a single storey and is characterised by a row of twenty-three openings in segmental arches. The second, which was used for spinning and weaving, as well as the yarn store, the office and the turbine room, has four floors and a two-slope roof. In both buildings, an almost identical masonry facing is used, giving them a unified character.
Torre del Amo is a construction attached to the walls of the factory on the west corner, forming a main façade facing Monistrol and another one facing the road. The ground plan of the building is made up of two polygonal bodies, a square one equivalent to the porch and a rectangular one, where a lookout tower and the building's outbuildings are located. Access to the building is from a staircase located after the porch, which has three ovoid arches supported by two pillars with vegetal capitals and a three-slope roof. The tower has a square floor plan and a lookout tower crowned with battlements. The unifying element of both bodies is the two-sloped roof, with green and reddish tiles. The walls are made of exposed brickwork, and the fillings and openings form vertical strips that fit in perfectly with the general composition of the factory buildings. The facing has several balconies with arches that vary from segmental arches to convex arches and lintel arches. The plinths, imposts, arches and tympanums are covered with glazed tiles and ceramic friezes that form multicoloured geometric and vegetal compositions.
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