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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data. Please do only fill in the fields you deem necessary to add or amend the information.
The Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya is one of the most important documentation centers in Europe, which houses the professional collections of more than 180 architects whose work is fundamental to understanding the history of Catalan architecture. By filling this form, you can request digital copies of the documents for which the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya manages the exploitation of the author's rights, as well as those in the public domain. Once the application has been made, the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya will send you an approximate budget, which varies in terms of each use and purpose.
El projecte havia de desenvolupar una escola en un solar de petitíssimes dimensions: un solar d’uns 630m2 en els quals calia encabir un sostre construït d’uns 700m2. Aquesta parcel.la estava situada al fons d’una pista poliesportiva ja existent que s’havia d’utilitzar com a pati de l’escola. L’entorn de l’escola el constituïen, a l’oest, les instal.lacions d’un camp de futbol i, a l’est, un sector de cases unifamiliars separades de l’espai de l’escola per un passatge de només tres metres d’amplada.
Pràcticament totes les obertures s’han situat als costats sud i nord. Així, les visuals principals a través de l’edifici prenen el sentit longitudinal del solar, en la direcció en la qual no existeixen interferències per edificacions (les del camp de futbol o les casetes unifamiliars). D’aquesta manera es primen les vistes més llargues: unes cap als boscos i turons del sud del poble i les altres cap a la riera i els camps situats al nord.
Tant la disposició dels recorreguts principals de l’edifici (els d’entrada i sortida del recinte de l’escola i els de l’escala i vestíbuls interiors) com la formalització del porxo (resolt a diferents alçades i en el qual conflueixen totes les circulacions) pretenen, també, emfasitzar les vistes esmentades cap al sud i cap al nord.
L’accés principal a l’escola es resol mitjançant una rampa tangent al passatge. Aquesta rampa aconsegueix travessar la façana est sense gairebé alterar-la -talment com un nen que es fica sota unes faldilles sense alçar-les-. Així, la façana manté el seu aspecte de mur cec que abraça i tanca el porxo d’accés. La rampa, els volums cecs i la tanca del solar de la façana est pretenen eixamplar i enriquir l’espai públic del passatge i pretenen conduir l’accés tant a l’escola com als diferents patis a través del porxo plantejat. La formalització de la façana est, sense gairebé referències d’escala, pretén dotar l’edifici del caràcter públic que li correspon.