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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
Fomento
AMB
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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The Mariona country house was built between 1927 and 1931 due to the initiative of Rafael Patxot i Jubert as a summer residence, under the direction of the architect Josep Danés i Torras, who also designed the carpentry and wrought ironwork, as well as the ceramic sundial, placed on the main façade. The house consists of a ground floor and two storeys, with an adjoining tower with a square floor plan and porticoed sundeck.
The exterior appearance of the building is inspired by classical country houses, with galleries and a lookout tower, although the interior layout is adapted to the needs of a luxurious summer residence. The garden surrounding the house was also designed by Danés, following landscaping criteria in accordance with the characteristics of the terrain.
In exile, Rafel Patxot had the words ‘Guests will come and they will be taken out of the house - 3rd August 1936 - Farewell’ engraved on the keystones of the entrance doorway.
The Mariona country house was built between 1927 and 1931. During the Spanish Civil War, the house was damaged and lost most of its furniture in a fire.
In 2005, the house was donated to the Barcelona City Council by its owner, Rafel Carreras i Patxot, subject to the execution of the museum project and the relocation of the park's headquarters. It is currently the headquarters of the Office of the Montseny Natural Park. Biosphere Reserve and the permanent exhibition ‘Patxot Universe’.
Masia de planta rectangular, formada per planta baixa i dos pisos, amb una torre annexa de planta quadrada i solana porticada. El carener de la coberta és a dues vessants. Les finestres són de llinda carrada.
En destaca la façana principal, amb el portal d'arc de mig punt adovellat, on hi ha una inscripció: "Hostes vindran que de casa us trauran - 3 d' agost de 1936 - Adéu-siau".
Hi ha un rellotge de sol a la façana sud, construït l'any 1931, que marca amb exactitud el temps solar i els canvis dels signes zodiacals en relació amb les estacions de l'any. Hi ha un altre rellotge construït l'any 2009 a la façana nord, on no arriba el sol, que recupera una idea del Rafael Patxot, per recordar que el sol és sempre present i si la Terra fos transparent, veuríem el sol sota els nostres peus.
És una casa senyorial destacable tant per les seves considerables dimensions, com pels seus singulars elements arquitectònics, és a dir, la torre, els porxos i les galeries.
Actualment és un dels equipaments del parc natural del Montseny. A la planta baixa hi ha la zona museïtzada "Univers Patxot", on s'exposa una visió de l'obra científica i de mecenatge de Rafel Patxot: l'estudi de la masia catalana, la relació amb l'excursionisme, la meteorologia, etc. A la planta segona hi ha una sala polivalent i biblioteca. La seu administrativa del parc es situa a la primera planta i part de la segona.
Fou construïda entre els anys 1927 i 1931 per encàrrec de Rafel Patxot i Jubert a l'arquitecte noucentista Josep Danès i Torras, com a residència d'estiu. L'arquitecte va emprar els principis estètics dels seus estudis sobre arquitectura popular.
L'any 1936, en esclatar la Guerra Civil, i abans de fugir a l'exili, Patxot va fer gravar a les dovelles del portal: "Hostes vindran que de casa us trauran - 3 d' agost de 1936 - Adéu-siau".
La casa va romandre abandonada durant diverses dècades fins que va ser adquirida i restaurada per la Diputació de Barcelona, gràcies a la donació que en va fer Rafael Carreras Patxot, net de Rafel Patxot i Jubert.
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