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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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:
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Basílica de la Sagrada Família
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Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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In a high-density area in the Gràcia neighbourhood, the Barcelona City Council must build a CEIP school. It was decided to use the site of the Tallers Manyach factory, the work of Josep Mª Jujol, built in 1916, which is in a terrible state of conservation and is both protected and cataloged.
Opting to build a school building on the façade of the Riera de Sant Miquel between the partitions, using the site prior to Jujol’s workshops, a 4-storey school is built, with the multi-sports court on the roof and preserving the warehouses of the old Manyach factory converted into school play porches.
The restoration was complex due to the poor state of the metal structure that supported the base of the partitioned vaults. He forced it to be replaced or reinforced, depending on the case, all the vaults, all exposed buttresses and skylights were restored and waterproofed.
The Jujol factory is separated from the new school through a courtyard where the restored ovens are located and the lower part is glazed to give transparency to the new functions of the factory, turning it into a large space covered with games for the children.
Having lost its original colours, it was repainted with colours taken from the architect's palette and is offered as an "objet trouvé" in the block’s patio.
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Manyach Workshops
Jujol approaches the covering of a large ship with typical procedures of modern architecture, but without the basis of analysis and calculation, so that he ends up solving the stability of the structure by empirical and intuitive means. The building is made up of a grid of extraordinarily slender pillars, on which lattices perpendicular to the street are supported. These eaves are split into two levels to collect suspended vaults, arranged in saw teeth, formed by three thicknesses of tile. The first vault that was placed, once the belt was removed, collapsed, which led Jujol to increase the curve of the vault and strengthen the brace system. In order to guarantee the overall stability of the work, Jujol chooses to use important brick pinnacles that are clearly visible on the roof. In this way, the structure tolerates the slenderness of the pillars and the small margin of safety in the foundations. -
Josep Maria Jujol School
Bach-Mora Arquitectes, Jaume Bach i Núñez, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt
In a high-density area in the Gràcia neighbourhood, the Barcelona City Council must build a CEIP school. It was decided to use the site of the Tallers Manyach factory, the work of Josep Mª Jujol, built in 1916, which is in a terrible state of conservation and is both protected and cataloged. Opting to build a school building on the façade of the Riera de Sant Miquel between the partitions, using the site prior to Jujol’s workshops, a 4-storey school is built, with the multi-sports court on the roof and preserving the warehouses of the old Manyach factory converted into school play porches. The restoration was complex due to the poor state of the metal structure that supported the base of the partitioned vaults. He forced it to be replaced or reinforced, depending on the case, all the vaults, all exposed buttresses and skylights were restored and waterproofed. The Jujol factory is separated from the new school through a courtyard where the restored ovens are located and the lower part is glazed to give transparency to the new functions of the factory, turning it into a large space covered with games for the children. Having lost its original colours, it was repainted with colours taken from the architect's palette and is offered as an "objet trouvé" in the block’s patio. -
FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner (ex aequo). Category: Architecture - Remodelling and RehabilitationJosep Maria Jujol SchoolBach-Mora Arquitectes, Jaume Bach i Núñez, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt