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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.

Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

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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 Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

With the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

Collaborating Entities:

ArquinFAD

 

Fundació Mies van der Rohe

 

Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico

 

Basílica de la Sagrada Família

 

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

 

Fomento

 

AMB

 

EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona

 

IEFC

 

Fundació Domènench Montaner.

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An unfinished building from 1884 that was supposed to be the Hospital of Sant Sadurní d'Anoia has been converted into a School of Mural Painting and School of Arts and Crafts.

The nave of the chapel, the central core of the old project, was very suitable for its use as a practical workshop for the muralists. The annex building of very little architectural interest, in poor condition and with many alterations due to its successive uses, could house the classrooms and services of the two centres, which is why they proceeded to demolish and replace all the interior forgings.

The new work appears on the outside as the irruption of the current windows that interfere, in its air, with the old order, scratched by a previous work of solidifying the whole that highlights the compactness of the original factory. This feature is possibly the main quality of the existing one.

With the new cover of the nave of the chapel, which seeks the correct lighting of its interior, the contrast between the two unusual volumes that make up the whole was accentuated.
The additions of white marble aim to accentuate the involuntary tone of unfinished work that the irregular stone ensemble already has and turn it into a statement.

With the layout of the two sections of stairs, one through the rear courtyard and the other pointing to the chapel, each of them is given an itinerary of a certain visual interest.

Author: Jordi Garcés i Brusés, Enric Sòria i Badia

The Index building is located in the grounds of the old Sant Sadurní d'Anoia hospital and is part of this complex. It can be accessed via Pompeu Fabra Street, which preserves the fence wall and leads to an interior courtyard. The Index is the result of the rehabilitation in 1987 of the chapel and the annex building attached to the north façade.

The chapel is a rectangular nave with a polygonal chancel. The chapel is covered by a gable roof raised on the north side.

The attached building is rectangular in plan and has a flat roof. It consists of a plinth that saves the unevenness of the land, ground floor and two floors.

The facing of the two buildings has a common wall and the use of bricks is the only decorative element, as is the case with the openings and blind arches, tax lines, corners, buttresses of the chapel, etc. The use of brick also highlights the different levels. Most of the original windows are boarded up, which accentuates the massive character of the building.

What remains of the old hospital is located on Torres i Bages Street and was built in 1884 by Ubald Iranzo from the donation of a piece of land by Josep Ferrer Sallés to be used for poor patients. In the original project, the hospital was made up of two parallel and symmetrical quadrangular buildings with three levels of height attached to the north and south façades of a chapel that served as a connecting link. The main façade of the chapel was set back with respect to the front façades of these two bodies that had the function of a hospital. The hospital, however, was not finished. In the annexed body, the Carmelite sisters were installed, and the building was used for primary education and social and health care. It was later allocated to social housing. The chapel, in turn, was used as a warehouse. Finally, in 1928, it was replaced by a new hospital located a few metres from it.

In the 1980s, the City Council promoted services that required the construction and renovation of old buildings to adapt them to new uses. To carry it out, it had the help of the Provincial Council. The new project respected the volumes of the chapel and the annex building but completely refurbished the interior to adapt it to the new uses. Work was done with current materials in order to modernise its appearance on the exterior access, the roof and the walling of the openings. In the attached body, irregular bodies and openings added over time were removed and new windows were opened.

The chapel space was used as a mural painting school to take advantage of its height, while the arts and crafts school was located in the annex building that had been a municipal warehouse. Currently, it is a municipal facility where the Youth Office, the Youth Information Point, the Youth Service and Sant Sadurní Radio are located.

Source: Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya (IPAC)

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  1. School of Mural Painting and Arts and Crafts of El Penedès

    Garcés -Sòria Arquitectes, Jordi Garcés i Brusés, Enric Sòria i Badia

    School of Mural Painting and Arts and Crafts of El Penedès

    An unfinished building from 1884 that was supposed to be the Hospital of Sant Sadurní d'Anoia has been converted into a School of Mural Painting and School of Arts and Crafts. The nave of the chapel, the central core of the old project, was very suitable for its use as a practical workshop for the muralists. The annex building of very little architectural interest, in poor condition and with many alterations due to its successive uses, could house the classrooms and services of the two centres, which is why they proceeded to demolish and replace all the interior forgings. The new work appears on the outside as the irruption of the current windows that interfere, in its air, with the old order, scratched by a previous work of solidifying the whole that highlights the compactness of the original factory. This feature is possibly the main quality of the existing one. With the new cover of the nave of the chapel, which seeks the correct lighting of its interior, the contrast between the two unusual volumes that make up the whole was accentuated. The additions of white marble aim to accentuate the involuntary tone of unfinished work that the irregular stone ensemble already has and turn it into a statement. With the layout of the two sections of stairs, one through the rear courtyard and the other pointing to the chapel, each of them is given an itinerary of a certain visual interest.
  2. FAD Award

    Award-Winner / Winner (ex aequo). Category: Architecture - Remodelling and Rehabilitation
    School of Mural Painting and Arts and Crafts of El Penedès

    Garcés -Sòria Arquitectes, Jordi Garcés i Brusés, Enric Sòria i Badia

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