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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 Chalet del Nin is one of those constructions that share the Catalan Art Nouveau and the Noucentista languages. It stands on the Sant Gervasi point, between the beaches of Els Capellans and Adarró and the railway line, at the end of Passeig de Ribes Roges. The isolated building is located within a walled enclosure crowned by a balustrade, raised above the level of the promenade. It consists of a ground floor, a first floor and a space under a hip roof, from which a square tower with a pavilion roof protrudes. The building is made up of a protruding central body that emphasises the main part of the entrance, and two bodies on the ground floor that form an upper roof with a balcony with a ceramic balustrade. The main façade faces the sea and the main entrance is through a portico with three semicircular stone arches and smooth shafted columns with base and capital.
The walls are made of stone, and the balconies have glazed balustrades. The roof has a ceramic and glazed tile perimeter eaves, and the ventilation system of the lower roof is remarkable, made with lattices with a glazed ceramic finish. On the east façade there is a porch with two semicircular stone arches, through which the service of the house had access. In the interior, the hydraulic floor tiles are interesting, in different patterns and colours, with Catalan Art Nouveau and Noucentista compositions, and the glazed ceramic wainscoting on the ground floor, from the Pujol i Bausis factory in Esplugues de Llobregat, as well as the wooden beam structure with glazed tiles.
In July 1999, the Díaz Ibáñez family, well-known restaurateurs from Vilanova, bought the villa to build a luxury hotel and banqueting halls. In 2003, the property requested the construction of a new access to the villa through a staircase that would connect it with the access from the Adarró square. The project for the restoration of the building and the new staircase was drawn up by the architect Josep Maria Pujol Torres from Vilanova.
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