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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
La nau per a Valeo està emplaçada al Polígon Industrial de Can Vinyals, a Santa Perpètua de Mogoda (Barcelona), amb una extensió en planta de 6.000 m2 (100 60), sense haver-hi cap pilar interior en un gran espai en què els primers 25 metres, començats a comptar des del costat est són ocupats per les oficines i els 75 restants per a la fàbrica de components electrònics per a automòbils. En una planta semisoterrada, que coincideix amb les oficines superiors, s’hi emplacen els laboratoris i algunes dependències tècniques. L’estructura de la gran nau es composa de set encavallades aixecades 6 metres de terra,de secció triangular quasi equilàtera, de prop de 5,20 m d’alçada per 5,60 m d’amplada,amb un intereix de 12,00 m, resultant així una llargada total de la nau que s’acosta als 100 m. Aquestes encavallades,a l’interior de les quals s’hi emplaça la majoria de les xarxes d’instal·lacions de la nau, tenen una longitud de 60 m i són suportades únicament per elements verticals situats en el pla de les façanes anterior i posterior. El pla horitzontal de tancament exterior de la cobertes formalitza disposant les oportunes corretges coincidint amb el nivell de la base de les encavallades.
La simplicitat formal del triangle, així com la seva capacitat de traducció de les accions exteriors en conjunts de barres traccionades o comprimides són un viu exemple de síntesi o de descomposició d’aquestes accions en vectors individuals més simples, i,per tant, més domesticables i fàcilment construïbles.