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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 project tries to establish a symbiosis between the aspects of the traditional Mediterranean house – the entrance/atrium, the internal street of access to the houses, the patio-garden of the Roman house, etc. – with the intentions of the movement modern, such as the concrete structure, the splitting into duplex, the recovery of the roof, etc...
Likewise, construction is understood as an artisanal process with a high prevalence of trades, using old techniques such as plastered lime stucco, appliqués or marble gravel pavements, together with the most sophisticated techniques in the treatment of plastics, glass and aluminum.
The fact that the new regulations of the A.M.B qualify large areas of urban centres as extensive residential (12 and 13) – where the great height of the unfolded ground floor equals the main body of the building, together with the fact that more than 50% of the building is not intended for residence – I think that it forces a fairly radical reconsideration in the preparation of the project, both in compositional criteria and in programmatic and typological ones.
In this short report I will limit myself to listing some of the intentions of the project that foreshadow the result, without going into considerations about the formal language used.
1- Complying with the regulations regarding parking spaces – avoiding the trauma of the ramp and the use of a small basement between the partition walls – led me to the solution of the lateral garages on the ground floor.
2- The entrance atrium avoids the theme of the receding loft, giving the duplex premises a higher quality in the form of a small gallery.
3- The layout of the staircase and the replacement of the lift by a small freight lift frees up the centre allowing a more global and clear reading from the lobby.
4- The sum of the circulation spaces with the necessary surfaces of interior courtyards allows greater generosity in the treatment of community space, transforming it into a street and interior courtyard.
5- The choice of a typology of duplex homes, recovering for each of them its proportional part of the roof-solarium, turns them almost into terraced homes.
6- The recovery of the patio-garden inside the island, taking advantage of the existing unevenness, allows the location of the underground premises and the small duplex studios with access from the ground floor.
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Bertran 67 Apartment Building
The project tries to establish a symbiosis between the aspects of the traditional Mediterranean house – the entrance/atrium, the internal street of access to the houses, the patio-garden of the Roman house, etc. – with the intentions of the movement modern, such as the concrete structure, the splitting into duplex, the recovery of the roof, etc... Likewise, construction is understood as an artisanal process with a high prevalence of trades, using old techniques such as plastered lime stucco, appliqués or marble gravel pavements, together with the most sophisticated techniques in the treatment of plastics, glass and aluminum. The fact that the new regulations of the A.M.B qualify large areas of urban centres as extensive residential (12 and 13) – where the great height of the unfolded ground floor equals the main body of the building, together with the fact that more than 50% of the building is not intended for residence – I think that it forces a fairly radical reconsideration in the preparation of the project, both in compositional criteria and in programmatic and typological ones. In this short report I will limit myself to listing some of the intentions of the project that foreshadow the result, without going into considerations about the formal language used. 1- Complying with the regulations regarding parking spaces – avoiding the trauma of the ramp and the use of a small basement between the partition walls – led me to the solution of the lateral garages on the ground floor. 2- The entrance atrium avoids the theme of the receding loft, giving the duplex premises a higher quality in the form of a small gallery. 3- The layout of the staircase and the replacement of the lift by a small freight lift frees up the centre allowing a more global and clear reading from the lobby. 4- The sum of the circulation spaces with the necessary surfaces of interior courtyards allows greater generosity in the treatment of community space, transforming it into a street and interior courtyard. 5- The choice of a typology of duplex homes, recovering for each of them its proportional part of the roof-solarium, turns them almost into terraced homes. 6- The recovery of the patio-garden inside the island, taking advantage of the existing unevenness, allows the location of the underground premises and the small duplex studios with access from the ground floor. -
FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: ArchitectureBertran 67 Apartment BuildingFAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner (opinion). Category: ArchitectureBertran 67 Apartment Building