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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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
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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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  • 1911

  • Moretó Flour Mill

    Domènec Sugrañes Gras

    Moretó Flour Mill

    Group of industrial buildings and former home of the owner of the Moretó flour mill, founded in 1890. It is a work of transition between Modernisme and Noucentisme, built between 1917 and 1919. In 1929 it was extended with new silos and, some time later, in 1935, the garden of the house was built there. The industrial part is made up of several volumes at different heights. The main building has a rectangular floor plan of great height oriented to the north with several side buildings. They are located on a plinth of concentrated masonry with protruding exposed brick columns, which act as vertical dividers. The top is based on a cornice of wavy shapes with brick framing. The columns surmount the cornice in the form of a pinnacle covered with semi-circular ceramic pieces. Casa Moretó is located within the complex, but isolated and surrounded by a garden. It has a quadrangular floor plan, two-storeys high and covered by a hip roof with an acroterium at the top. In the eastern corner stands a four-storey lookout tower with a pavilion roof, also crowned by an acroterium at the top. It has a semi-detached body at the front with a square plan, consisting of a ground floor and a main floor and crowned by a terrace protected by a masonry balustrade. Attached to this body we find a porch supported by two square shaft columns on which there is a terrace with access from the ground floor of the main body, and which is also protected by a masonry balustrade. The openings have flat lintels with stepped sills and decoration with green ceramic tiles above and also on the imposts, all crowned by a brick arch. The decorations under the eaves of the main building and the lookout tower stand out. They are made with bricks that combine brown and green in a pattern of geometric motifs. The Moretó i Prat brothers, settled in Mollet and owners of a steam sawmill, took advantage of the surplus energy to install millstones to grind flour in 1895. In 1919, the second generation started construction work on the new factory and house at the current location. The garden and the fence of the house were carried out later, in 1935.

    1917

  • Pública Fountain

    Domènec Sugrañes Gras

    Pública Fountain

    Catalan Art Nouveau fountain that corresponds to a 1983 reconstruction of the original, designed by the architect Domènec Sugrañes in 1921 and demolished in 1961. It consists of three superimposed bodies located on a stepped podium with an inscription indicating that the source is a reconstruction of the original. Above there is a square brick structure where the fountains are located, each decanting over a stone sink. Above these fountains is a prismatic structure divided into two parts. The lower one is covered with a mosaic where the year of construction is indicated (1983) and the upper one with blue and white coloured tiles representing the town's coat of arms. The fountain is crowned by a wrought iron structure with a helical section from which four lanterns emerge.

    1921

  • 1939 - 1941

  • J. Amadó Chemist's

    autoria desconeguda

    J. Amadó Chemist's

    Building between the ground floor and two floors with a gable roof and ridge parallel to the façade. It is a building from the beginning of the 20th century, following a historicist style. The façade is covered with sgraffito in imitation of ash trees and mouldings in the corners. It stands out for the large entrance portal, with a semi-circular arch, on a plinth and with moulded framing. On either side of the apex of the arch there are two plaster reliefs with the typical symbol of the cup of Hygiea with the coiled snake. On the first floor there is a flat sash window with moulded awning and wrought iron balcony. The window on the second floor has trilobed arches supported by smooth shaft columns. The façade is finished by a strip of blind arches and crowned by a balustrade. The entrance portal and the window on the second floor, of clear Gothic inspiration, give the building a resemblance that does not fit with the context that surrounds it, but, at the same time, this contrast visually enriches the urban complex from Plaça Prat de la Riba.

    first half of the 20th century

  • 1970

  • Can Borrell Residential Street Block

    MBM Arquitectes, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, David Mackay, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina

    Can Borrell Residential Street Block

    It consists of a group of 200 social housing units on a block of houses in the new extension of Mollet, made up of a plot of 100 x 100 metres, with the four façades facing the four cardinal points. The solution gives a different answer to each of the four faces, depending on the orientation and the urban character of each street. The blocks to the south and west are made up of two storeys of duplex houses; the lower ones are accessed from inside the block and the upper ones by means of an elevated corridor that escapes from the corner square. On the east side, the block doubles, with a vertical access from the interior passage and single-level homes that overlook both sides. The north block also has single-level housing and is accessed from the inner patio. The ensemble emphasises the south and west façades of the block, the only ones with shops, and reiterates the desire to give the patio a public nature through an access from the interior.

    1983 - 1987

  • Firing Range

    Esteve Terradas i Muntañola, Robert Terradas i Muntañola

    Firing Range

    The firing range is located in an area that also includes the Police School, built in the 1980s by the same architects. Both areas are clearly separated and differentiated by the passage of a stream. The different buildings are organised in the form of a campus, far from the traditional image of police buildings. The complex forms an open area framed basically by the natural landscape. As one of the boundaries of the plot is the N-152 road, the classroom buildings and the sports centre are arranged parallel to the road, in a linear fashion. These buildings are connected to each other by a promenade, which also gives access to the swimming pool and the athletics track. The different galleries that make up the shooting facilities are defined by the distance between the shooter and the target. A large rectangular platform acts as an abstract support for the galleries, all of different characteristics and dimensions, by regulation.

    1990 - 1992

  • Can Borrell Apartment Building

    Garcés -Sòria Arquitectes, Jordi Garcés i Brusés, Enric Sòria i Badia

    Can Borrell Apartment Building

    In the centre of an important residential initiative of public promotion and with rectangular plots (100x35 m.) on both sides of the large central square of the new district, 200 homes, 100 on each side, parking lots and commercial premises have been planned. They have followed basic criteria already used in a previous work of housing for public promotion in Dr. Pi i Molist Street, Barcelona (1978): to contribute to the definition of the surrounding urban space with the linearity of the buildings. To arrange parallel linear blocks that define a large central courtyard to which only bedrooms give, avoiding promiscuity and degradation of the common spaces in which services and kitchens open. To design with minimal architectural gestures combined with the quality of construction and materials used. To use vulgar construction means requalified by the superimposition of additional design elements. To experience the theme of the flat façade supporting a repeated distribution of holes. The following points are introduced as novelties, largely thanks to the possibilities offered by the excess measurements of the plots: the movement of the linear blocks close to the central square thus contributing to a greater characterisation of the space public. The cutting and retraction of a segment of the linear block close to the exterior streets singling out the main access. As a result of the two previous decisions, a central courtyard with a variable floor plan is obtained with a particular spatial interest and with measures that become considerable. The treatment with inclined planes of the extreme ends of the blocks to singularise and formally treat the ends of the buildings. The existence of double-height porches to signal the entrances to the buildings from the street and the square. The exhaustive repetition of a single type of window that comes to be located at the ends coinciding with the edges of the building, thus underlining the character of a continuous fabric with the façades. Introduction of an upper cornice that ends the section.

    1985 - 1993

  • Mollet del Vallès Secondary School

    Bach-Mora Arquitectes, Jaume Bach i Núñez, Gabriel Mora i Gramunt

    Mollet del Vallès Secondary School

    Located at the end of a newly created neighbourhood with a very regular layout and architecture, the new school complex is organised around three courtyards that adapt to the terrain and have different functions and characters. The first is the entrance with access below the bridge structure of the library. The most public parts open to its surroundings: meeting room, library and gym. The second is the central courtyard, quiet and enclosed. The last one, more open, welcomes the surrounding landscape and vegetation. The playground and the entrance separate the large and close group of houses, so that the main corridor is located on the façade, behind a brick wall with small openings. The walls that are orthogonal to it are treated with galvanised iron sheet, placed horizontally to achieve the effect of lightness.

    1991 - 1996

  • 2001 - 2002

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