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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque Directors arquitecturacatalana.cat
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Project by:
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Directors:
2019-2024Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
Documental Commission:
2019-2024 Ramon FauraCarolina B. GarciaEduard CallísFrancesc RafatPau Albert Antoni López DaufíJoan FalguerasMercè BoschJaume FarrenyAnton PàmiesJuan Manuel ZaguirreJosep FerrandoFernando MarzáMoisés PuenteAureli MoraOmar Ornaque
Collaborators:
2019-2024Lluis AndreuSergi BallesterMaria Jesús QuinteroLucía M. VillodresMontse Viu
External Collaborators:
2019-2024Helena CepedaInès Martinel
With the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura
Collaborating Entities:
ArquinFAD
Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Basílica de la Sagrada Família
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
Fomento
AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
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.
The hotel is based on the two dimensions that make up the identity of the Catalan metropolis: the horizontal plot of the Cerdà Plan and the vertical dynamics of the Sagrada Família, the Agbar tower and the Tibidabo mountain. The building consists of a simple set of linked volumes: a cube seated horizontally in the city and a 30-storey tower that offers a new landmark. An impressive cantilever at 20m marks the entrance to Diagonal Avenue as a sign of identity and, at the back, the cube is bordered by an open square. The twinning of these boxes determines the distribution of functions. The volume at the back brings together the collective services of the hotel, and the tower, which is wide and shallow, houses the rooms. These are designed to look outward through large windows. This view is cut by panels of different opacities and textures that cover the façade and liven it up both day and night.
The ME hotel and the adjacent office building form a complex of two equivalent buildings in form and materials that are formally sought and complemented, located at one of the key junctions of Poblenou, which form Diagonal Avenue and Pere IV. The two buildings are separated by Lope de Vega Street, but neither is taken into account for their alignment.
The hotel is lined with Pere IV and the offices on Diagonal. Both have very abstract volumes with certain common features that form a unitary set consisting of two sets (each of them is a building) of two overlapping prisms that slide together. When sliding, the upper prism is partially cantilevered. The office building is a screen on the Diagonal. Its cantilever is projected towards Lope de Vega Street. The hotel building, the more unique of the two, is a very slender skyscraper made up of two binoculars, one of which is four stories above the street. The cantilever marks the entrance to the building and opens onto Peter IV. So, the two cantilevers do not look at each other, but they are perceived as a single intervention when they look at each other.
The treatment of both building’s façades is unitary, based on glazed materials or very smooth metals, looking for reflective surfaces that allow the unitary reading of the volume. The hotel’s windows are arranged in a checkered pattern to make it easier to read the façade as a unit and not to distort the plans. The hotel does not have any plinths and its façade treatment crashes against the floor in an undifferentiated manner.
It is noteworthy that the separate buildings and the unit they form are not designed to be viewed from the front, but for the oblique views that force the streets in which they are located. Even the frontal view from the other side of the Diagonal leaves one of the two buildings oblique and reinforces the sculptural character of the whole.
The complex is complemented by a service building located behind the hotel, solved in the same language, which due to being aligned with Peter IV and misaligned with Lope de Vega, the street where it leads, forms a square of quite attractive access from which there are some very interesting views of the building.
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