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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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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

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

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2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

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Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

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ArquinFAD

 

Fundació Mies van der Rohe

 

Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico

 

Basílica de la Sagrada Família

 

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

 

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  • La Ricarda Country House

    autoria desconeguda

    La Ricarda Country House

    Stately residence with a ground floor and two floors in one sector, and ground floor, main floor and rooftop in another. The part covered by a gable roof imitates the basic structure of the Catalan country house (scheme 2.I by Danés i Torras), in a distinctly noucentist spirit. The decorative spirit is instead more Catalan Art Noveau, with sgraffitos of floral themes framing the windows, corners and cornices. Coloured glazed ceramics form the base of the balconies, whilst iron laminates worked with curved shapes imitate artisanal forgings. It is property of the Bertrand family as from Manuel Bertrand, also owner and creator of La Ricarda Farm.

    1910

  • Marconi Telecommunications Exchange

    Josep Puig i Cadafalch

    Marconi Telecommunications Exchange

    The building of wireless telegraphy or radiotelegraphy is in the La Ricarda estate. It is a simple construction, with one body of small dimensions. The staggered gable of the side façade – a resource used by Puig i Cadafalch – gives it personality, and the rather pronounced eaves also stand out. The interior housed the apparatus room, a place for the telegraph operator and a space for public attention. The attic was the home of the telegraph operator and his family. As a great innovation at the time, there was a WC on each floor and kitchen. The building remains to this day and preserves its structure in relatively good condition. The interior, however, is destroyed and the original layout is not preserved. The existence of stained glass windows designed by Puig Cadafalch is known, but there are no remains of them. Between 1904 and 1905, Marconi built communications centres in several places across Europe. The El Prat telegraph station (1911) corresponds to a more advanced stage in technology because the antennas are exclusively made of metal. Wireless communication has been one of the most important innovations of this century. The preservation of this building is interesting for the following reasons: it is one of the few technical buildings that exist in Catalonia, it is a witness to the introduction of radio into homes and, in addition, no similar building is known from this period that has been preserved in Spain.

    1911

  • 1919

  • El Prat Royal Golf Club Service Pavilion

    José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat, Robert Terradas i Via, Manuel Valls i Vergés

    El Prat Royal Golf Club Service Pavilion

    El pavelló dóna l’esquena al camp de golf i s’orienta cap al sud-oest, tot formant un cos amb dues ales que acullen dos grups de funcions ben diferenciades. S’accedeix per l’eix de les dues ales a un àmbit principal transparent cap a la façana oposada, on hi ha les sales d’estar, el bar i el menjador. A la banda nord queda l’ala del personal de servei, amb un pati propi que recull totes les obertures. Per la banda sud creix la segona ala, que allotja les oficines i els vestidors. El pavelló dóna resposta a les qualitats paisatgístiques pròpies d’un camp de golf per mitjà d’una construcció d’una sola planta, vidrada de terra a sostre en bona part de la façana, i unificada per una gran coberta plana que forma voladís en la majoria del seu perímetre. Així s’aconsegueixen uns àmbits directament relacionats amb l’exterior i ben delimitats per sota de les capçades dels arbres.

    1954

  • Gomis House

    Antoni Bonet Castellana

    Gomis House

    The house is located on a large plot covered by a pine forest, by the sea. Bonet interprets the site as an isotropic territory, marked by a square grid of 8.80 x 8.80 metres that follows the orientation of the sun. Each domestic function coincides with the modules of this mesh, covered by a ceramic vault supported by metal pillars of square section. Thus, the enclosures enjoy absolute independence with respect to the roof, so that the routes of the house, the exterior spaces, the furniture or the small details are understood as infinite variants of the initial pattern.

    1953 - 1962

  • Barcelona Airport Control Tower

    Vicente Alegre, Robert Terradas i Via

    After the Civil War, Robert Terradas became the architect of Barcelona Airport and was responsible for the construction of the new building from 1941-1949, which unified the two previous airports and had the control tower located on the roof. In the mid-1950s, the airport was too small and Terradas began to plan the expansion of the restaurant, the waiting room and the terrace, which he could not build because it was decided to hold an open tender for the airport terminal. What he did design was the air control tower, which for logistical reasons was separated from the tender and was built immediately. The tower is 50 metres high, with a rectangular concrete shaft, and is topped by three floors from which air traffic is directed and controlled. These floors are separated from each other, two of them cantilevered in opposite directions and the third with the same dimensions as the shaft, which offers a very dynamic aspect of the whole. Originally the concrete shaft was natural grey, and the three upper floors were painted black with some white surfaces. The colours have been modified later.

    1963 - 1964

  • 1966 - 1967

  • El Prat Airport Terminal 2B

    Eduardo Aguirre, Vicenç Cudós

    El Prat Airport Terminal 2B

    The winning project by Eduard Aguirre channeled passenger circulation exclusively through the ground floor, which favoured direct boarding through the terminal without the need for telescopic walkways. The airport management and administration offices, some airline companies and some terraces facing the runways that allowed you to watch the takeoff and landing of the planes were on the upper floor. Currently this operation has been modified due to the successive expansions that have been taking place at the airport. The roof structure is one of the most outstanding elements of the terminal, it is made up of corrugated steel plates that allow a span of 150 x 30 metres to be bridged without interior pillars. This roof extends on both sides, forming a 14-metre cantilever canopy on the access façade. A mural by Joan Miró and the ceramist Josep Llorenç i Artigas has been installed on this façade, which is part of an unfinished trilogy of mosaics that welcome visitors arriving in Barcelona by land, sea and air. Miró was only able to create two: the Las Ramblas pavement for those arriving by sea and the façade of the airport for those arriving by air.

    1964 - 1970

  • 1969 - 1971

  • 1969 - 1976

  • Aeroplane hangar at El Prat Airport

    Soler-Farriol Arquitectes, Sílvia Farriol, Anna Soler Sallent

    Aeroplane hangar at El Prat Airport

    720m2 hangar at Barcelona's Prat Airport destined for the parking, maintenance and repair of the two planes that make the photogrammetric flights that the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia carries out in order to produce the geographical maps of the territory. On the ground floor there is the parking platform as well as the warehouses, workshops, changing rooms and sanitary rooms, and on the upper floor there are two offices, the flight office room and another warehouse-archive. In the flight office, aerial photographs are assembled with high-precision digital systems - the first step for the preparation of the maps that are made at the institute's headquarters in Montjuïc. The project was conditioned by the specific regulations of the airport regarding the regulatory height, of 9m in total, and the type of structure, which had to be light and removable. A space metal mesh was projected and, taking advantage of the fact that the company that manufactured it was building the Palau Sant Jordi in Montjuïc and could build the hangar with the teams it had in the city within the deadlines, we opted for this solution, in the form of a curve, subtle and aerial, which was mounted on the ground and raised in its entirety by two cranes and supported on the metal pillars. The closing of the façade to the runways was done with four sliding leaf doors by means of an external triangulated beam that collects them on both sides two by two and leaves completely free access to the interior of the ship, 30m wide. The roof and vertical facings are made of sandwich panels, the roof ones are made in situ (11cm thick), and the vertical ones of the standard type of 3.5cm. The interior floor was painted with four coats of white epoxy paint at the request of the maintenance technicians. This makes it possible to quickly determine, with a single drop and depending on its colour, which are the specific fluids that are in loss in the event of failure.

    1989

  • El Prat Airport Terminal 2

    RBTA - Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, Ricardo Bofill Leví

    El Prat Airport Terminal 2

    Barcelona airport was the subject of a major remodelling to go from six million passengers a year to approximately twelve million, also doubling the aircraft parking capacity. The project included the installation of twelve telescopic gangways for direct boarding of aircrafts. The solution adopted takes into account the configuration of the airfield and specifically of the platform, narrow and elongated, which had to be extended. The terminal building was designed in line, taking advantage of a large part of the existing structure, with four modular piers in the shape of a triangle that minimally penetrate the platform allowing better use of it. This linear solution, determined also by the situation of the Cargo Terminal and the technical building, is reinforced with an element that emphasises this linearity: an elevated pedestrian street that groups the modular elements, serves as a separation between the ground sides and air and allows easy separation between national and international passage. The international passage will use a building relatively separate from the rest of the facilities. One of the triangular modules is intended especially for the air bridge with Madrid. The airport's modular design allowed it to be remodelled in phases, as it could not interrupt its operation at any time. A new façade was created, which represents a fully glazed image of the boarding modules and the elevated street. Waiting passengers can enjoy the spectacle of the planes taking off and landing from a privileged position. The triangular modules have another waiting room on the ground floor, intended for those passengers who must board, via the bus, aircraft located in remote positions. The elevated street, backbone of the airport, is an element of communication between the entire establishment. While access from the street to the planes can be done in a minimal route, the elevated street, inspired by the Rambles in Barcelona, allows waiting passengers to stroll and enjoy the different atmospheres of the same in its different sections. The passenger has access to the terminal buildings at ground level, with a direct connection to the car park and circulation roads protected by large roofs. Check-in and baggage collection takes place on the ground floor and the connection between floors is made by stairs, escalators and lifts. The rapid evolution of air technology will soon cause new remodelling in all the airports of the world, although this should not minimise the study of their architectural design, an important factor for the comfort of passengers and the image of the city.

    1989 - 1991

  • des de 1997

  • Terminal 2B Intermodal Building at Barcelona Airport

    Artigues & Sanabria Arquitectes, Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), Ramon Artigues Codó, Josep Maria Casadevall i Márquez, Carlos Ferrater i Lambarri, Ramon Sanabria i Boix

    Terminal 2B Intermodal Building at Barcelona Airport

    The intermodal building and connection to Terminals A and B is externally characterised by a façade that extends beyond the dimensions of the building itself, as an attempt is made to establish continuity between the façades of Terminal B, from the Miró mural, and from terminal A. The project proposes a neutral façade in its treatment so as not to create mimicry with the current façades. For this reason, a clad façade of extruded aluminum is proposed, which aligns with the façades of the neighbouring terminals. The volume of the new building is located separately from the new façade closure and acts as an independent volume, with an envelope of four façades with a double skin. The inner skin is of opal pavé, which will act as a large public skylight towards the interior, while the exterior is made of polycarbonate. The space in between serves as a service gallery.

    2002 - 2007

  • El Prat Airport Terminal 1

    RBTA - Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, Ricardo Bofill Leví

    El Prat Airport Terminal 1

    The aim of the new terminal is to be Barcelona's communication gateway with the European environment, boost connection traffic and improve accessibility to the airport by the different modes of transport (high-speed train, commuter rail and the future extension of the underground’s line 9). It will have an area of approximately 300,000 m2 and will be able to absorb a traffic of 25 million passengers, that is, the double of all the current terminals combined. The building consists of two main blocks under a single roof: a block up to 500 metres wide, where check-in, security and baggage claim processes are carried out, and which connects passengers with the different modes of transport, and another 700 metres long in which the boarding, waiting and commercial equipment areas are located. The architecture of the building combines an international and multicultural character with the luminosity and ambient warmth of Mediterranean architecture. Its transparency favours the natural lighting of all areas intended for passengers, allowing a wide view of the tracks, with the vegetation and the sea as a backdrop. Converging in the design an arrangement of maximum functionality, the incorporation of modern technologies, respect for the environment and a representative and unique architecture, the new terminal building of Barcelona Airport will be one of the benchmarks for future passenger airport terminals of the European environment.

    2001 - 2008

  • Aeronautical Cultural Centre at Barcelona-El Prat Airport

    Godia & Barrio Arquitectes, Berta Barrio Uría, Sergi Godia i Fran, Eloi Juvillà i Ballester

    Aeronautical Cultural Centre at Barcelona-El Prat Airport

    The museum is equipped with a program of 3200m2 spread over the ground floor and mezzanine and is organised in two structural spans of 28 and 15.5 m. Under the biggest one, there is a large exhibition room of old airplanes and a restoration workshop. The attic is part of the exhibition route and acts as a viewpoint over the great hall. The other hallway contains the assembly hall, the administration and the warehouses. The building, with a rectangular plan, is inspired by the image of hangars. In its outer skin, the prefabricated concrete panels are slightly out of place, breaking the flatness of the façade and generating a game of light and shadow that varies throughout the day. On the main façade, this concrete body rises as if it were an airplane taking off to leave a glazed strip that allows you to observe the airplanes on display.

    2009

  • Marine Animal Recovery Centre (CRAM)

    Hidalgo Hartmann, Daniela Hartmann, Jordi Hidalgo Tané

    Marine Animal Recovery Centre (CRAM)

    The new facilities of the CRAM Foundation are located at the old Prat de Llobregat golf course in the Equipment Area of the Corredor del Litoral, with a performance area of approximately 20,000m2. The project seeks the balance between the clinical research program and the public program, with the minimum means possible, to ensure that the conditions of the activity become the fundamental elements when defining the architectural and volumetric features of the whole set. This decision pursues an architecture that seeks the equidistant point between its functional condition and its representative condition as a public building. Each of the three buildings that make up the complex expresses in its form the activity that takes place there.

    2007 - 2010

  • El Prat de Llobregat Cultural Centre

    Brullet - De Luna Arquitectes, Manuel Brullet i Tenas, Alfonso de Luna Colldefors

    El Prat de Llobregat Cultural Centre

    The cultural centre of El Prat de Llobregat is located in Plaça Catalunya and contains a library, the historical archive of the municipality, and an event hall. The exterior volume of the cultural complex, covered with an elegant zinc skin, is configured as a rotund body only fragmented by the irruption of the assembly hall and a central void that works as an entrance courtyard. The interior of the building contrasts with the aggressiveness of the exterior; the spatial successions, the work in sections, the use of warm materials or the serenity that the overhead light brings, generate an interesting atmospheric experience that is particularly spectacular in the triple space that makes up the access to the library.

    2010

  • Llobregat Riverside Park

    Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB), Pepa Morán Núñez

    Llobregat Riverside Park

    The Riverside Park is part of the global project for the social and environmental recovery of the metropolitan section of the Llobregat river. At the metropolitan level, the park guarantees the continuity of the paths on the right bank of the Llobregat from Martorell to the system of metropolitan beaches. Its strategic position is the gateway to the Llobregat River from the municipality of El Prat. The park brings into play the different identities of the area where it is located, integrating the elements and traces of the past with the recovery of the environmental and landscape potential of this unique point. The project proposes a topographic modification that establishes new relationships between the detached spaces and works as a support for a vegetal cover of Mediterranean meadows and bushes, with minimal water and maintenance requirements. However, it explores ways of relating people to vegetation and its dynamics (growth, changing seasons...).

    2010 - 2011

  • Municipal Allotment Project on the Camí de la Bunyola

    Roselló-Sangenís Arquitectes, Pere Puig Vila, Josep Miquel Roselló i Jurnet, Manel Sangenís i Garcia

    Municipal Allotment Project on the Camí de la Bunyola

    Located in the heart of the Llobregat Delta, it is located on two estates, separated by a third one that is not interfered with. The project houses 120 gardens of 60 m2. Features: recovering the slightly depressed topography in relation to the roads, replanting on the ditch of reclaimed banana trees and planting all the fences with native species. In the orchards we find stands for reeds, spaces for compost, worktables for people with mobility problems and lounge areas. Barracks: service trains that solve the public bathrooms, the administrative office, warehouses and personalised wardrobes. The buildings have been solved with concrete structures, originally intended to solve service blocks of prefabricated buildings. Sustainability: all the orchards have irrigation nozzles that bring water from tanks that, at night, collect water from the canal on the right. Dirty water is purified with the Biotrit system. The purified water is reused to irrigate the perimeter fence.

    2011

  • L'Aigua Square

    José Juan Martínez Larriba

    L'Aigua Square

    The colonnade and two plant stakes geometricise the new De l’Aigua hall-square. The height stakes relate the façades of the new buildings (CAP and APSA) neoplastically, and covered with climbing plants of varied colours and perfumes they will contribute, together with the diversity of natural light on the faces of the columns of the colonnade and the vibration of shadows that will be projected, to obtain mutant effects opposed to the hieraticism of the colonnade. At night, the illuminated water stylobate will act as a great sparkler and the colonnade will acquire a high expressive level. In the very middle of the central space, four existing trees colonise the place and at the same time expressive metal supports hold the level ceiling of the artificial lighting anchored to the colonnade, constituting an ethereal pallium that gives continuity to the lighting of the axis of Llobregat Street.

    2014

  • L9 South Metro Stations: Aeroport T1 and Aeroport T2

    FSC Infraestructuras, Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), Josep Maria Casadevall i Márquez, Carlos Ferrater i Lambarri, Ramon Sanabria i Boix

    L9 South Metro Stations: Aeroport T1 and Aeroport T2

    The two metro stations, L9 Aeroport T1 and Aeroport T2, linked to terminals T1 and T2, have the same formal and environmental characteristics given their proximity and their link with the multimodal building, made by the same authors. The basic characteristics of the public transport elements of the infrastructures have to do with the clarity of flows and organisation. Airports, railway or metro stations must respond clearly and resoundingly to the clarity of routes and functional rationality. In our case, the use of the same materials (aluminum, retro-projected walls, flush ceiling, etc.) want to participate in the same linguistic code as the architectures that support them. This is to make the user understand that when he arrives at the airport terminal stations (T1 and T2) he will recognise the desired unity by its atmosphere and materials. This formal and compositional unity causes an understandable and clear reading of the spaces and routes, which is ultimately what is intended with this type of infrastructure.
  • Aigües del Prat Corporate Headquarters

    José Juan Martínez Larriba

    Aigües del Prat Corporate Headquarters

    Sixty-one serial and equidistant columns rest on a stylobate of water, they form the colonnade of one of the three façades that help to build the geometry and formalise the open-air space that will take up the future hall-square. Adjacent to the colonnade and along its long side there is a prism that contains inscribed the sum and combination of juxtaposed prisms of different dimensions that completely fill the interior of the colonnade. These prisms fulfill the function of containing, ordering, organising and relating the varied program of service needs generated by the Municipal Water Company. The fully prefabricated construction relies on concrete structural parts and laminated and counter-laminated timber. The aim has been to obtain a "sincere" architecture, which is why the pieces that make up this building come together with an unusual rigor in its structural, constructive and formal function.
  • Environmental Recovery of the Embankments and Approaches to the River Llobregat

    Batlle i Roig Arquitectura, MMI Gestió d'Arquitectura i Paisatge, Enric Batlle i Durany, Joan Roig i Duran

    Environmental Recovery of the Embankments and Approaches to the River Llobregat

    The objective of the proposal is the identification of the main conditions for the environmental recovery of the Llobregat River, as well as the definition of the necessary actions to improve its accessibility from the different municipalities that surround it and enhance its social use to carry out leisure activities. It is about thinking about the river as a complex, which gives it a unitary landscape treatment criterion, which serves both to facilitate its future maintenance, and at the same time to understand it as a unit. The development of the proposal is based on understanding the river from two complementary points of view: - The river as a living and changing entity, full of life and a natural space with its own dynamics and functioning. - The river as a green and peri-urban leisure space, which should be a place of enjoyment for citizens, while respecting the environment in which it is located. The landscape proposal understands the river as a green space connected to the city and its surroundings.

    2007 - 2015

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