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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
The Vall d’en Joan is located in the Garraf Natural Park, within the municipal terms of Begues and Gavà in the Baix Llobregat region. Originally, the site was one of the many narrow and winding valleys that formed the Garraf massif. The beginning of its use and exploitation as a landfill dates back to 1974, and since then it has accommodated most of the urban waste of Barcelona and the municipalities of its metropolitan area. At the time its closure began, it occupied an approximate area of 85 hectares and had been covered up to two-thirds of its original height.
The situation of the deposit before the refurbishment corresponded to a large terrace with steep slopes where a layer of 20 centimetres of soil which covered the waste but which did not involve its definitive sealing had been placed. In addition, the higher parts of the valley were still being mined. The image of the valley occupied by the deposit contrasted with the orographic and vegetal richness of the landscapes of the natural park that surrounded it.
It currently takes up an area of 60 hectares, 20 of which have been restored as part of the "Executive Project for Closure and Restoration of the Controlled Deposit of Vall d'en Joan", in zone 1-2 and the access to this area.
The rehabilitation project is determined as a global proposal for action, defining topographical criteria for the configuration of terraces and slopes, a drainage network for the collection of internal water independent of the external, Biogas extraction network, routes and revegetation to apply by phases. The overall goal of the project is the reintegration of the Controlled Deposit into the Garraf Natural Park, which is carried out using the resources of the nearby agroforestry mosaics and enhancing the development of the primary ecosystems established there, which over time will evolve into situations adapted to the environment.
The process of planting the vegetation is carried out from indigenous, resistant species with little water needs and adapted to the natural environment. The plantation is organised in plant structures such as brambles, thickets or Mediterranean maquis, shrub species and trees and crops of indigenous, leguminous species.
The restoration of the Deposit aims to enhance the character of the open space that this area can recover due to its proximity to several metropolitan towns, the ease of access and the possibility of parking make it an accessible space and a new access to the Garraf Natural Park in connection with the long-distance GR trail.
Batlle i Roig Arquitectura, Enric Batlle i Durany, Joan Roig i Duran
Batlle i Roig Arquitectura, Enric Batlle i Durany, Joan Roig i Duran
Batlle i Roig Arquitectura, Enric Batlle i Durany, Joan Roig i Duran