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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2025 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2025 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:
2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2025 Helena Cepeda Inès MartinelWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
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Basílica de la Sagrada Família
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
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AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
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Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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The factory is organised on both sides of a central service area, with two symmetrical buildings that are each subdivided into three bodies. These are covered by a gable roof, resulting in a zig-zag roof line. The factory is covered by vaults that are supported on foundation pillars and have central skylights. An air chamber separates the vaults from the roofs. This lighting system with skylights explains the migration of windows throughout the building. On the central body there is a small tower arranged as a dwelling.
The style is modernist due to the period and the structural forms, but the decorative motifs and especially the shapes of the windows have a lot of historicism (neomedieval and neomudéjar).
The textile sector was, as in the rest of the districts of Barcelona, the first to start the industrialisation of the towns. A few years after the start of the operation of the Infanta Canal, there are news of the first Indian factory (1851) which has now disappeared, the Bagueria Factory, built in 1920, already in full industrial effervescence, dedicated to its original activity.
One of the bodies is now the headquarters of the Guàrdia Urbana.
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Can Bagaria Factory
The factory is organised on both sides of a central service area, with two symmetrical buildings that are each subdivided into three bodies. These are covered by a gable roof, resulting in a zig-zag roof line. The factory is covered by vaults that are supported on foundation pillars and have central skylights. An air chamber separates the vaults from the roofs. This lighting system with skylights explains the migration of windows throughout the building. On the central body there is a small tower arranged as a dwelling. The style is modernist due to the period and the structural forms, but the decorative motifs and especially the shapes of the windows have a lot of historicism (neomedieval and neomudéjar). The textile sector was, as in the rest of the districts of Barcelona, the first to start the industrialisation of the towns. A few years after the start of the operation of the Infanta Canal, there are news of the first Indian factory (1851) which has now disappeared, the Bagueria Factory, built in 1920, already in full industrial effervescence, dedicated to its original activity. One of the bodies is now the headquarters of the Guàrdia Urbana. -
Rehabilitació de Can Bagaria per a la Construcció de la Nova Escola Municipal de Musica i Auditori
Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB), Marina Salvador López
L'antic magatzem del conjunt industrial tèxtil de Can Bagaria, una mostra del patrimoni arquitectònic modernista del segle XX, es rehabilita i s'adequa per ubicar-hi una escola de música municipal. Es parteix d'una nau de més de cent metres de longitud, amb coberta de teula àrab a dues aigües suportada sobre encavallades de fusta, i una façana principal d'obra vista amb una gran regularitat d'obertures. Interiorment, per trencar aquesta linealitat tan marcada, s'agrupen els diferents espais que necessita l'escola de música: zona d'accés, amb els espais d'ús comú; aules de diferent mida, repartides en dues plantes, i sala d'audicions, que es construirà més endavant. L'accés es planteja per una de les antigues portes de la nau, just al davant del gran espai d'entrada al conjunt industrial on, un cop urbanitzat, es podran dur a terme activitats musicals fora de les aules. A més dels espais d'administració propis de l'equipament, a la zona interior de l'accés s'hi situen l'escala i l'ascensor, i un cancell que, en el futur, portarà a la sala d'audicions. A la planta baixa, les aules més petites es distribueixen al llarg d'un passadís a tocar de la façana principal; a la planta superior, hi ha les aules i espais més grans, a banda i banda d'un passadís central. Per garantir la il·luminació i la ventilació de tots els espais, s'han aprofitat les antigues finestres de la nau i s'han creat diversos patis a tota alçària que, a més, ajuden a alleugerir l'impacte de la intervenció i a reconèixer visualment la secció i la volumetria interior originals, deixant a la vista les encavallades de fusta. -
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Award-Winner / Winner (ex aequo). Category: Béns ImmoblesRehabilitació de Can Bagaria per a la Construcció de la Nova Escola Municipal de Musica i AuditoriÀrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB), Marina Salvador López
