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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
IEFC
Fundació Domènench Montaner.
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The town council promoted an ambitious revitalisation operation in Les Roquetes neighbourhood through the construction of new municipal offices and sheltered housing. With this material, it wanted to revitalise the activity in the area and give continuity to two different and confronting urban fabrics, one on a slope and self-built during the 60s, and another in plan and formed by a more recent extension and with a different type of real estate development that gave it a different scale.
The project opted for the creation of a generous square that was defined by a continuous building that embraced it and that contained all the required program. Located on a steep slope, it sought horizontality, managed to avoid the access ramps to the underground car park that always break the ground plan, generating undefined and dark areas, and planted as many bananas as possible.
The town hall building was very attentive to the many virtues of the neighbouring self-constructions, especially to their extraordinary richness in the transitions between exterior and interior, usually based on sequences with a great deal of patios, terraces, pergolas, trees or plants. All this influenced different themes and especially the way of entering, which was proposed through a half-hidden courtyard, protected by a large tree and treated as a generous hall from which any room could be accessed.
From its gestures in plan so that it was seen from the two main streets that penetrated the adjacent fabrics to the treatment of its volumetry chopped in some areas or treated with more emphasis in others, its general appearance was born from the will to give maximum continuity to the two tissues and to preside over and give meaning to the square.
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Headquarters of Sant Pere de Ribes Town Hall in Les Roquetes
Clotet, Paricio & Associats, Lluís Clotet i Ballús, Ignacio Paricio i Ansuategui
The town council promoted an ambitious revitalisation operation in Les Roquetes neighbourhood through the construction of new municipal offices and sheltered housing. With this material, it wanted to revitalise the activity in the area and give continuity to two different and confronting urban fabrics, one on a slope and self-built during the 60s, and another in plan and formed by a more recent extension and with a different type of real estate development that gave it a different scale. The project opted for the creation of a generous square that was defined by a continuous building that embraced it and that contained all the required program. Located on a steep slope, it sought horizontality, managed to avoid the access ramps to the underground car park that always break the ground plan, generating undefined and dark areas, and planted as many bananas as possible. The town hall building was very attentive to the many virtues of the neighbouring self-constructions, especially to their extraordinary richness in the transitions between exterior and interior, usually based on sequences with a great deal of patios, terraces, pergolas, trees or plants. All this influenced different themes and especially the way of entering, which was proposed through a half-hidden courtyard, protected by a large tree and treated as a generous hall from which any room could be accessed. From its gestures in plan so that it was seen from the two main streets that penetrated the adjacent fabrics to the treatment of its volumetry chopped in some areas or treated with more emphasis in others, its general appearance was born from the will to give maximum continuity to the two tissues and to preside over and give meaning to the square. -
FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureHeadquarters of Sant Pere de Ribes Town Hall in Les RoquetesClotet, Paricio & Associats, Lluís Clotet i Ballús, Ignacio Paricio i Ansuategui