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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 té en compte dos condicionants bàsics: la salut i el pressupost de la Lídia. Com habitar aquest antic cinema estant-hi a gust (poder relaxar-se a casa, no encostipar-se a l’hivern, rebre una bona dosi de llum solar...) i gastant-se els mínims diners, tant en l’obra com en el manteniment?
QUÈ? (NECESSITATS)
1.Curar l’edifici. Reforçar l’estructura on calgui. Sanejar, reparar patologies provocades per l’ humitat.
Noves instal.lacions.
2.Millorar el confort tèrmic. Trobar un mecanisme perquè l’aire de l’edifici sigui habitable. Es descarta l’opció de condicionar tot el volum d’aire de la sala, uns 1480 m3, per la seva ineficàcia energètica o de separar-lo en dues zones (la habitable i la no habitable).
3.Il.luminar la construcció. El canvi d’ ús d’una fonda de poble (al soterrani encara es conserva l’estable i l’abeurador per les mules, que escalfaven el pis de dalt) a un cinema va fer que es tapiéssin les poques finestres que hi havia. Cal reobrir-les per recuperar la llum. S’obre una gran finestra a la façana sud per poder veure les muntanyes i descansar la vista en un dia de treball.
COM? (ESTRATÈGIES)
Fer una casa dins de la casa. Diferenciem dos tipus d’aires. Un de més exterior (el taller) i un de més interior (la casa).
Repartim el programa per tot l’edifici, per tal d’enriquir-ne l’espai, distribuir les fonts de calor i possibilitar un contacte directe de cadascun d’aquests llocs amb l’exterior (ventilació, més llum…).
Construim microclimes. Cada habitacle té la possibilitat d’escalfar-se o ventilar-se independentment, alhora que escalfa o refresca tota la sala.
Aquests habitacles es disposen sempre relacionats amb una finestra, per tal de tenir la màxima llum i ventilació possibles, així com un contacte visual més íntim i directe amb l’exterior. Són entrades de llum habitables, festejadors que donen llum a l’interior (del sol de dia i elèctrica de nit).
Treballem amb un sistema constructiu senzill, barat, net (es construeix dins d’un edifici, cal no destrossar res), que permet el muntatge ràpid a taller i a l’obra, i la autoconstrucció: Tota la casa l’han muntada entre el Josep M. Bertran (fuster), el seu fill i la Lídia.
El cost de tot el projecte (compra de l’edifici inclosa) ha estat inferior al preu d’un pis de 50 m2 a Reus el 2004.