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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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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 project takes place in the former sugar factory integrated in the ‘Compañía de Industrias Agrícolas S.A.’ on a site popularly known as ‘Pasaje del azúcar’. In accordance with the Special Plan we drew up in 2002, which included the entire former factory on both sides of the passage, in 2008 we converted the former industrial buildings on the north side into unconventional housing or lofts. In the meantime, an area on the south side of the passage remained unbuilt, which has been the subject of the new-build office project realised in 2019.
The office project continues the urban design of the old volumes, so that the whole defines a coherent ecosystem, with its streets and buildings, a kind of more porous widening, for which a variety of volumes of different heights and floors have been built. This layout means that open and closed spaces, public or semi-public and private, old and new, coexist flexibly, like a small city within the city.
With a more abstract architectural language, the new offices create continuity with the old refurbished buildings, with a similar materiality, similar shape and arrangement of the windows on the façades, thus preserving the industrial identity of the Poblenou district in a harmonious way.
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Mas de Roda Dwellings
The renovation of the industrial areas of Poblenou (Activities District 22@ Bcn) envisages its transformation into the new "Activities District 22@BCN", mainly dedicated to the industries of the new economy, information and communication technologies. In an old sugar industry, a building complex with unusual characteristics has been designed for a special, dynamic, progressive audience. A unique and quality result has been pursued. The project is based on the qualities of the original industrial building. The old ships are cut vertically with the rhythm established by the trusses of the roof structure, obtaining lofts of two or three levels. The built volumes of several floors are reused as diaphanous spaces on a single level. In the old sugar industry, currently "Ebro Agrícolas", located on the Ramon Turró - Dr. Trueta - Badajoz - Granada - Passage Mas de Roda block of houses, through which the access is made, a built complex with unusual characteristics is projected. The objective and purpose of the Urban Improvement Plan is the rehabilitation-reform for its reuse as non-conventional housing use of the upper sector of the old and traditional sugar industry, unused, formerly famous "COMPANYIA D´INDÚSTRIES AGRÍCOLES, S.A.”, and currently “Ebro Agrícolas”. The size of the complex makes us think of the possibility of carrying out a double rehabilitation-reform action in the old industry and new construction, in a second phase, in the part occupied by the sheds, but with common characteristics of layout, character and design. The operation reuses the old existing factory in the northern corner of the complex, thus contributing to preserving the industrial architectural heritage. -
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Accèssit. Category: Béns ImmoblesMas de Roda DwellingsPassatge de Mas de Roda Offices
Garcés-de Seta-Bonet Arquitectes, Anna Bonet i Giné, Daria De Seta, Jordi Garcés i Brusés
The project takes place in the former sugar factory integrated in the ‘Compañía de Industrias Agrícolas S.A.’ on a site popularly known as ‘Pasaje del azúcar’. In accordance with the Special Plan we drew up in 2002, which included the entire former factory on both sides of the passage, in 2008 we converted the former industrial buildings on the north side into unconventional housing or lofts. In the meantime, an area on the south side of the passage remained unbuilt, which has been the subject of the new-build office project realised in 2019. The office project continues the urban design of the old volumes, so that the whole defines a coherent ecosystem, with its streets and buildings, a kind of more porous widening, for which a variety of volumes of different heights and floors have been built. This layout means that open and closed spaces, public or semi-public and private, old and new, coexist flexibly, like a small city within the city. With a more abstract architectural language, the new offices create continuity with the old refurbished buildings, with a similar materiality, similar shape and arrangement of the windows on the façades, thus preserving the industrial identity of the Poblenou district in a harmonious way.
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