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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 school developed its activities in a small group of towers adjacent to the garden city of Bellaterra. The parents' association, when deciding to build a new plant, proposed a similar model.
The project envisages three independent buildings intended, respectively, for primary education, secondary education and services. Each of them is developed in three floors in height, united in its gravity centre by an external passage attached to the retaining wall of the street. They have their own access.
Of the proposed buildings, only one is built in the first phase. The following phases would be built by the MORA-SANVISENS Arquitectes Associats studio.
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Ramon Fuster School (Phase 1)
Bach-Mora Arquitectes, Jaume Bach i Núñez, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt
The school developed its activities in a small group of towers adjacent to the garden city of Bellaterra. The parents' association, when deciding to build a new plant, proposed a similar model. The project envisages three independent buildings intended, respectively, for primary education, secondary education and services. Each of them is developed in three floors in height, united in its gravity centre by an external passage attached to the retaining wall of the street. They have their own access. Of the proposed buildings, only one is built in the first phase. The following phases would be built by the MORA-SANVISENS Arquitectes Associats studio. -
Ramon Fuster School (Phases 2, 3, 4)
Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón
The complex, located on a steep slope, consists of three buildings. The one to the north, carried out by the BACH-MORA Arquitectes studio, was done some time ago, and the project continues the initial approach. Therefore, two more buildings are built that follow the volumes and ideas of the original project, modifying it in order to respond to the current needs of the school. Together, the three buildings express three stages of education (kindergarten, primary and secondary), communicating with each other through a walkway at level -1, which acts as terraces on the outside, porches, of outdoor study place, etc. On this level there are also the common services, and it is the exit level to go to the dining room, the gym, etc. The three buildings create between them, on level -2, the playing spaces or multi-sports courts. Each building has its own space and porch. The buildings formally express, within a unit of materials and forms, their specific internal functions, based on the variation within the same typology. The school group follows the pedagogical line marked by Ramon Fuster, in which architecture must express the evaluation of teaching: boys and girls must experience their educational progression through spatial changes. The school's other philosophy is to live nature (to enjoy the weather: the sun and the rain, the cold and the heat). -
Ramon Fuster School (phase 3)
Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón
The complex, located on a steep slope, consists of three buildings. The building located in the north side, carried out by the BACH-MORA Arquitectes studio, was done some time ago. The project continues the initial approach. Therefore, two more buildings are built that follow the volumes and ideas of the original project, modifying it in order to respond to the current needs of the school. The three buildings, together, express three stages of education (kindergarten, primary and secondary), communicating with each other through a walkway at level -1, which acts as terraces on the outside, porches, of outdoor study place, etc. On this level there are also the common services, and it is the exit level to go to the dining room, the gym, etc. On level – 2, the three buildings create the playing spaces and multi-sports courts. Each building has its own space and porch. The buildings formally express, within a unit of materials and forms, their specific internal functions, based on the variation within the same typology. The school group follows the pedagogical line marked by Ramon Fuster, in which architecture must express the evaluation of teaching: boys and girls must experience their educational progression through spatial changes. The school's other philosophy is to live nature (enjoy the weather: the sun and the rain, the cold and the heat). -
Ramon Fuster School (phase 4)
Mora-Sanvisens Arquitectes Associats, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt, Carmina Sanvisens Montón
The Ramon Fuster School is built by a set of three isolated buildings, joined by a common walkway, which were placed in stages between 1992 and 2000; now a fourth building is being built to house the secondary education classroom, an assembly hall, a gymnasium and, on the roof, a new multi-sports court. The new extension is located in a wooded area with a steep slope and separated from the complex by a vehicle access ramp. Morphologically, it is treated as a formally different building, since it does not have a metal roof like the other buildings, and it has a more elementary shape due to the location of the covered track. The volume is clad in vertical minion sheet of dark grey, almost black, scraping an opposite image and integrated with the forest.