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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 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:
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School for 900-1050 pupils distributed in 16 units of EGB, 6 units of BUP, 1 unit of COU and 6 units of pre-school.
This school is developed in three independent buildings around a common square. The steep slope of the land means that below this square there is a level destined for variable common uses, in front of which is the kindergarten. To prevent this level from becoming a basement, light penetrations have been introduced, the main one via a diagonal staircase linking the central common floor and the open plaza. Each building has a linear staircase doubled by an external staircase. The classrooms, which occupy the rest of the floor, are open and privatised by turning the walls diagonally and interposing a cork partition and the clothes hanger area. On the ground floor of the BUP building there is the library and the common areas, which have an independent entrance from the street so that they can be used by the residents of the neighbourhood.
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Costa i Llobera School
MBM Arquitectes, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, David Mackay, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina
School for 900-1050 pupils distributed in 16 units of EGB, 6 units of BUP, 1 unit of COU and 6 units of pre-school. This school is developed in three independent buildings around a common square. The steep slope of the land means that below this square there is a level destined for variable common uses, in front of which is the kindergarten. To prevent this level from becoming a basement, light penetrations have been introduced, the main one via a diagonal staircase linking the central common floor and the open plaza. Each building has a linear staircase doubled by an external staircase. The classrooms, which occupy the rest of the floor, are open and privatised by turning the walls diagonally and interposing a cork partition and the clothes hanger area. On the ground floor of the BUP building there is the library and the common areas, which have an independent entrance from the street so that they can be used by the residents of the neighbourhood. -
FAD Award
Shortlisted. Category: ArchitectureCosta i Llobera SchoolMBM Arquitectes, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, David Mackay, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina
Extension of Costa i Llobera Primary School
MBM Arquitectes, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, Oriol Capdevila i Arús, Francesc Gual i Traginé, David Mackay, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina
Prior to the expansion, the school was a set of three rectangular buildings located around a common space, a large open-air roof overlooking Barcelona, which serves as the centre of the school and leisure space. The extension consists of a fourth building of similar volume to the existing ones, designed using the same compositional and constructive criteria as the current buildings, in order to obtain a set with volumetric and topographical coherence that will accommodate a total of 910 students from 3 to 17 years old (from kindergarten to Senior High School). The new building is distributed on the ground floor, two floors and a basement – a multipurpose room and a gym – which match the levels of the current floors. On the ground floor, a bridge that connects (piercing the new building) the current courtyard with that of the extension is built, and it forms a large free space around the buildings. This floor is divided by the connection step. The first and second floors are connected on one side to the nearest existing building by glass bridges and on the other by the outdoor garden via metal stairs and a bridge. The ground floor and the first two floors are connected by a glazed staircase similar to the other school buildings. In the basement, at the same level as the main entrance of the current school, there is the multipurpose space / gym, with the corresponding changing rooms, which is partially developed under the playground.