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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2025 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2025 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:
2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2025 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 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.
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The project looks at the existing factory in the historic city centre and regulates its layout according to this, setting out a new public/private space around it which links up a residential area which can overcome the rigid framework of the urban weave. Two very different scales have had to be combined: the larger industrial one, which already existed, with the smaller residential one, which is newly built. The intervention inside the factory involved converting a third of the surface into offices. The original structure has been maintained and the only intervention in the space has been to restore and equip it. The rest of the factory incorporates a total of twenty dwellings in different sized units. Two rows of houses have been planned on both sides, separated from it by free spaces. The row facing south-east has been built during this first phase.
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Pere Font i Batallé Factory
Isolated industrial building that is part of a wider complex, but of less interest. It is rectangular in floor plan, two stories high and roofed with Catalan vaults. The structure of the intermediate slab is also similar to the tensioned Catalan vault. The entire work is clad in exposed brick, with a lowered arch opening in flattened brick as the only decorative element. The façade is punctuated by pilasters and curved cornices, with a blunt profile, which make the Catalan-style vaulting structure of the roof visible and at the same time make up the spaces where the windows open. -
Rehabilitació i Reforma de la Fàbrica Pere Font i Batallé
Jaume Armengol i Clotet, Francesc Bacardit i Segués, Joaquim Mompel, Ferran Pont i Montaner
The project looks at the existing factory in the historic city centre and regulates its layout according to this, setting out a new public/private space around it which links up a residential area which can overcome the rigid framework of the urban weave. Two very different scales have had to be combined: the larger industrial one, which already existed, with the smaller residential one, which is newly built. The intervention inside the factory involved converting a third of the surface into offices. The original structure has been maintained and the only intervention in the space has been to restore and equip it. The rest of the factory incorporates a total of twenty dwellings in different sized units. Two rows of houses have been planned on both sides, separated from it by free spaces. The row facing south-east has been built during this first phase. -
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Award-Winner / Winner. Category: RestorationRehabilitació i Reforma de la Fàbrica Pere Font i BatalléJaume Armengol i Clotet, Francesc Bacardit i Segués, Joaquim Mompel, Ferran Pont i Montaner
