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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.

Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
Directors arquitecturacatalana.cat

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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental 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 Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

With the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

Collaborating Entities:

ArquinFAD

 

Fundació 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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  • Can Bordoi

    Marcel·lí Coquillat i Llofriu

    Can Bordoi

    Noucentista complex by Marcel·lí Coquillat located around a farmhouse from the 16th - 18th centuries. The farmhouse is a three-bay building with a double-sloped roof and ridge perpendicular to the façade with an added body at the back covered with a double slope and off-centre ridge. It has a ground floor, main floor and attic with a symmetrical composition of the openings. The portal, located in the centre, is vaulted and accessed via a five-step semicircular staircase. It is accompanied on both sides by two stone windows, the one on the right is molded and has a sill. On the first floor two molded stone windows open on each side with a central balcony covered with a small gabled roof and an almond-shaped sundial. In the attic you can see three openings of recent manufacture. To the right of the farmhouse, we can find the 19th century tower. It is a quadrangular building with a built-up roof. In the central part a square lookout tower stands with a roof on four sides and watchtowers at the top crowned with pinnacles. A glazed gallery of undulating shapes protrudes from the main facade, which is accessed by a staircase of eight semicircular steps. The roof constitutes the balcony of the first floor. On the east façade, a semicircular body protrudes, the roof of which serves as a balcony with a side opening. The rest of the openings combine rectangular and compound shapes. A rectangular body is attached to the rear façade which serves as a first-floor terrace. The wide wooden eaves crowned by an acroterium at the top of the ridge should be highlighted. To the left of the farmhouse there are the stables. It is a double building with a U-shaped front body with a ground floor covered on one side. On one of the sides a polygonal tower stands with a pavilion roof. In the centre, a large wooden door covered with a gabled roof gives way to an L-shaped rear body covered with gables with the ridge running parallel to the façade. In the north corner there is a second tower with similar characteristics to that of the previous body but with a circular plan. All these structures are located on a terrace delimited by masonry walls covered with stone and crowned by a balustrade of wavy shapes. The east side of the wall is crowned by a profusely decorated wrought iron trellis. In the north-eastern corner of the enclosure there is a viewpoint with a circular plan which is accessed by a staircase attached to the wall that takes the form of a curve. It is made with the same construction equipment as the fence, covered with a metal structure in the form of a pergola with a tiled roof placed in the form of scales. Outside the complex there is the chapel, which is part of a garden area. It is a single nave building with a gabled roof preceded by a large porch of lesser height and a gabled roof with a large central opening of a semi-circular arch and buttresses at the corners. At the back there is the apse, pentagonal in plan and lower in height with a composite roof. Can Bordoi is a farmhouse documented in the 13th century. It is mentioned in the 1553 census as "en Bordoy". The noucentista work is a commission from Josep Comas i Masferrer (1842 - 1908), a Catalan industrialist and politician, founder of the Monarch Liberal Circle, deputy and provincial senator for Barcelona and president of the Barcelona City Council. It is believed that the building was built by the architect Marcel·lí Coquillat, because there is a plan of an architectural element of the garden not built but signed by him. The whole set is of a stylistic homogeneity that suggests a single author.

    1908

  • 1962 - 1965

  • 1989

  • FS House

    Fidela Frutos i Schwöbel, Josep Maria Sanmartín i Burgués, Jaume Valor i Montero

    FS House

    The construction of the house resorts to prefabrication and industrialisation, due to the reduced cost and short execution times. The building consists of a semi-underground plant built with in-situ concrete retaining walls, on which a metal structure of pillars and girders that support the slabs stands, prestressed concrete slabs of 9 x 2.40 metres. The material qualities of the sheet metal enclosure make it possible to achieve a volume that opens to the south, apparently closed to the other orientations, where the street and the access are. The openings are covered with perforated sheet metal with the same characteristics, so that a double perception of night and day is obtained. The solar energy collecting wall is integrated into the building. This collecting element consists of a chamber closed externally with polycarbonate, and internally with black painted iron sheet and thermal insulation.

    1994 - 1995

  • Llinars del Vallès House

    Josep Llinàs Carmona

    Llinars del Vallès House

    The single-family house in Llinars del Vallès is located in an urbanisation of single-family homes on the outskirts of this city in the region of El Vallès, in the province of Barcelona. The plot is the sum of two units of 500 m2 each, so that the house will be a bit larger than the average ones built in the urbanisation. On the other hand, this plot of 1,000 m2 is located at the foot of a small hill so that the land is 2.5-3 m above street level and, at the same time, it connects in a straight line with the urban centre and visually with a mountainous, wooded and extensive landscape. This direction of arrival, which at the same time the slope is linked to the topography of the land, coincides with the East orientation, when in reality the humid climatology of the region advises orienting the house to the south. On the other hand, the geometry of the plot, with a circular sector, does not contain any suggestion about the implementation of orthogonal axes to refer to the plan. So the project begins not by fixing a limit or an organised system, but by fixing a centre from which the house spreads out to occupy the plot in a subordinate way. This centre is immediately identified with a study-library, a space to work during breaks and the rest of the house is articulated (from this centre) around a porch that allows domestic activities in the open air. A piece that identifies and differentiates these second residences, from the first ones linked to the interior space and in the city. Porch and study will be the elements that originate the house and give rise to a process of work and study that links these two pieces together and covers the "soft" parts of the project: bedrooms, kitchen, dining room, etc. The instrument that will be used to establish this relationship will be the cover. During the process, successive models are generated that aim to define this relationship. Polarity manifests itself vertically, but also very quickly horizontally: in the south-west the living room and main room, and in the north-west the kitchen and children's and grandchildren's bedrooms. Between both arms there is the porch. The porch must be extensive, but at the same time it must have natural light through an abatement of part of the roof, which in another step becomes empty. The artificiality of the system to light the porch does not manage to make a "place" in the geometry of the roof and finally the solution comes to introduce a cut in the roof when it approaches the study, which gives us protection from the sun but abundant natural light from the North that enters through this uncovered floor, next to the centre of the house.

    2007 - 2008

  • Llinars del Vallès Primary Healthcare Centre

    Gustau Gili Galfetti

    Llinars del Vallès Primary Healthcare Centre

    A compact and low-impact construction is proposed using economical and industrialised construction systems. The building, with its rectangular volume, is located in a low-density area intended for sports facilities and parking in the centre of the village. The dispensary is in the upper part of this area, in contact with the urban fabric. In one corner, a cantilevered volume appears that approaches the line of the street. It is precisely through this point that the main access to the building takes place. A series of ramps solve the topographical differences between the level of the street and the entrance to the building, which is slightly lower, leaving an outdoor garden space around. The rectangle is oriented so that the two long façades have an east-west orientation. A central longitudinal courtyard is opened, open from north to south, with which natural light is introduced into the interior of the building and favours cross ventilation. In the consultation areas, it has been chosen to organise circulation and waiting areas in visual contact with the outside, emphasising the more public nature of these spaces. Consultations are instead opened in the central inner courtyard. It is a compact volume, of low height, which presents a continuous façade made with only two prefabricated elements: a concrete lattice for the translucent parts and GRC panels for the opaque parts. The façade lattice responds to a single large mould and is placed in different ways, horizontally or vertically, so that variants of façade solutions are achieved from a single element. This lattice guarantees privacy to the users of the centre and acts as sun protection on the exposed façades. But above all it makes both the interior and exterior spaces take on a vibrant and changing appearance in accordance with the light variations, turning an industrialised concrete building into a building that is both friendly, warm and comfortable.

    2014

  • 2012 - 2015

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