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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

    Ignasi Mas Morell

    Villa Elena

    House with a rectangular plan forming a partition with No. 10 of the promenade, carried out by the same architect. It is surrounded by a garden with a fence made of masonry, with stone and mosaic, with bars at the top. The finish of the building, completely free of composition, stands out. On the one hand, there is a small rooftop covered by a wooden roof and supported by four vertical and completely free columns that extend it above the stone and mosaic roof. On the other side, there is a small loft-style building. It follows the roof with another fully open rooftop. The windows do not follow a certain style, each one has its own. Stone work and mosaic everywhere. Islamic influences are present, as in the free-angle Muqarna. House also known as Casa Anzizu, promoted by Josep Mª Anzizu i Morell. It was located in Carrer Balmes no. 16, pral., Barcelona, at the time the municipal building license was applied for (7/6/1911).

    1910

  • Gibert House

    Josep Maria Jujol Gibert

    Gibert House

    The project responds to the commission of two attached houses by the architect’s aunt. Jujol creates an organism made up of five cylindrical bodies. The three largest bodies are crowned at the same level, while the two smaller bodies protrude to unequal heights and contain the stairs of the two houses. Two more cylinders protrude from the roof, which contain the stairs leading to the attics and viewpoints. Each cylinder is covered by a dome covered with pieces of glass, coming from the Cornellà glass factory, located a short distance away. On the main façade, another small cylinder acts as a porch and opens through two parabolic arches. Jujol creates a unitary body that only needs to be divided with a straight divider to form the two homes. The iron elements point out some unique points: the start of the staircase, the dining room stands or the rooftop viewpoints.

    1913 - 1916

  • Serra-Xaus House

    Josep Maria Jujol Gibert

    Serra-Xaus House

    House located on a ground floor, and which disposes of different floor levels. Irregular floor plan. It shares a party wall with the house next door. The rest is independent and is also surrounded by a garden. House consisting of two dwellings, the first one with an entrance on the ground floor under the tribune and the other one via a staircase. The cube supported by two columns stands out and acts as a vertex between the two streets. The sgraffitos in blue on floral themes forming a border on one side and ducks (making a couple and facing each other) stand out on the other. Promoter of the work: Pere Xaus. Petition for the municipal works license 06-17-1921, granted on 07-13-1921.

    1921

  • Can Po Cardona

    Juli Maria Fossas i Martínez

    Can Po Cardona

    Large, isolated farmhouse with rectangular plan and surrounded by a garden. It consists of a central body with a ground floor and two landings and two lateral bodies with a ground floor and one additional floor. The roof is double-sided, with the ridge perpendicular to the main façade, and a quadrangular turret with a four-sided roof protrudes from this. All the façades are crowned with a mixed front combined with decorative balls, which give a unitary character to the whole building. The openings in the main body have lintels, except for the semi-circular arched main door and a small three-arched gallery in the centre of the second floor. The lateral bodies are surrounded by arcade galleries which, despite being placed at half height, follow the sinuous lines of the main façade. The whole building is decorated with sgraffitos. Those on the main façade reproduce popular themes referring to the seasons of the year; to several famous musicians (Granados, Chopin, Wagner) next to musical instruments, while on the right side, product of the 1927 extension, there are references to Catalan public figures (Cambó, Guimerà, Monsignor Cinto). The sgraffitos are the work of Gabriel Caldés, who maintained the style of baroque inspiration. The farmhouse dates from 1750. Around 1850, it was bought at a public auction by Josep Cardona, the manor of the estate when it was owned by the Manso-Vidal family. He took the name of the manor from the diminutive of Josep, Josepó, and hence the familiar abbreviation of "Po". In 1927, Miquel Cardona Duran renovated the house with a new, more bourgeois taste (date of the request for the municipal building permit: 19-07-1927). The architect commissioned to do this task was Juli M. Fossas. The façade was renovated, an interior staircase topped by a tower was built and two lateral wings were added to the sides.

    1927

  • 1911 - 1929

  • Can Negre

    Josep Maria Jujol Gibert

    Can Negre

    Jujol approaches the refurbishment of a baroque farmhouse with the intention of changing its aesthetic parameters, of the utmost importance for the modernist culture that goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. The most relevant interventions in the interior are reduced to the chapel and the staircase. Jujol maintains the entire existing wall system, as well as the layout of the openings. He puts all the emphasis on the transfiguration of the main façade, which is explained in a single project drawing that reflects its intention well enough. More rows of flat tiles, all of them different, are added to the wavy cornice. The two side windows on the first floor become two symmetrical tribunes, which flank a new central tribune that evokes the shape of a float, made with delicate iron work and with an unprecedented system of glazed openings. The façade plan is divided by polychrome spots tending to unify the resulting dissymmetry.

    1915 - 1930

  • Jujol House

    Josep Maria Jujol Gibert

    Jujol House

    House of a singular projection. The building is "T" shaped, and a higher body protrudes at the intersection. Designed to form two houses. Each of them is located on the same horizontal line and, hence, shares the vertical axis. The straight lines are combined with the curves. All the windows are decorated with blue bands, also alternating straight and curved lines in the same element. It forms two gardens in the hollow of the arms of the aforementioned "T". The entrance gate is made of flat slatted base shaft and in a diagonal position. Promoted by the same architect in order to install his house there. The house was built on land belonging to the Negre family. Petition for the municipal works license on 3-11-1932.

    1932

  • 1941 - 1948

  • 1999 - 2001

  • 2006 - 2008

  • Moisès Broggi Hospital

    Manuel Brullet i Tenas, Albert de Pineda i Álvarez

    Moisès Broggi Hospital

    The Sant Joan Despí Doctor Moisès Broggi Hospital is a newly built hospital designed to serve a population of 300,000 inhabitants in the Catalan region of Baix Llobregat, in Spain. The organisation and layout of the Hospital within the plot is determined by the accesses to it, the orientations, and the topographical conditions of the land. The adaptation to the site, and to its conditions of access and environment, explain the solution adopted. Indeed, the land has a long boundary oriented to the north where Baix Llobregat Avenue is located. The main access is located at the south-west end of the plot, at the highest level, from where you can also access the ambulatory area. However, the main access to the consultations is independent and is located on the north façade, on Baix Llobregat Avenue, from which it can be accessed more easily by public transport. Also, with the idea of differentiating access according to functionality, the emergency access is located at the north-west end of the plot. This access is at the lowest level, one floor below the main access. Finally, access to the loading and unloading dock is on the east side. Architecturally, a compact building has been chosen, looking to solve the following concepts technically and functionally: 1. Specialisation of circulations The separate sanitary and public circulations are designed to avoid interference between one and the other. Hence the solution of placing all the healthcare areas in the basement -1, to avoid the appearance of beds on the access floor. The proposal for independent access to external consultations and the rest of outpatient services enables access to external visits or inpatients from two different accesses. The compositional clarity of the routes and the continuous relationship between the building's exterior and interior make it easier for the user to find their way around the hospital. 2. Hospitalisation units All the rooms of the inpatient units have been oriented to the south and to the new park, overlooking a quiet and wooded area, protecting these facades through a brise-soleil of red cedar wood boards from Canada. No hospitalisation unit is isolated from the others to enable the interrelationship of health personnel: hence the solution of four units on the first floor, three on the second and three on the third. 3. Area of external inquiries It differs from the hospital area itself in order to improve its functionality. Deeper recesses have been built to adapt to the different hourly operation and natural light has been enhanced through zenithal lighting, without the need for patios, thus achieving a compact building and reducing operating costs. 4. Built volume A balance has been sought between the desire to achieve an extensive building and the desire to preserve an important space as a garden area, while at the same time minimising the internal routes to make the operation of the hospital more rational. This compaction of the building and the fact that much of the construction is located below ground level, has been accompanied by the location of a series of patios that allow lighting of most of the building's spaces, looking for a discreet urban footprint despite the large built volume. 5. Sustainability The building normalises the concept of Sustainability as it is incorporated from the initial design, seeking to create a building capable of great energy savings. This is achieved both by the architectural design (building closed to the north and open to the south, controls of the external sun through the brise-soleils, and design of the façades) and by the installation of technical mechanisms such as photovoltaic panels and rainwater reuse systems.

    2005 - 2010

  • Rehabilitation of Can Negre

    Josep Llobet i Gelmà

    Rehabilitation of Can Negre

    Can Negre was a farmhouse, which Jujol renovated between 1914 and 1926, at the behest of the family. The refurbishment focused especially on the façade, the staircase and the chapel. In the first, Jujol gives examples of a global and quite detailed conception of his work, while showing an obvious respect for the existing façade by maintaining the openings that explain the interior wall compartmentalisation. The exercise he carried out on the main façade clearly shows his intentions, which were collected in a single project drawing. Different rows of flat tiles are added to emphasise the undulating curve of the cornice. Another small cornice is also introduced, which includes that of the side façade. Two side tribunes appear flanking the main tribune which evokes the shape of a float. This one, with meticulous forging work, has two "legs" that rest on either side of the main door, making it even more prominent. There is also an effort to compensate for the imbalance in the original building, with the placement of a covered gallery, as if it were a semi-detached house, and with the use of polychromy on the façade. For Jujol, the black house has a special religious significance as well as tradition and popular culture, and that is why he strives to show the transfiguration of an anonymous and conventional element into another with a strong presence of the architect's hand.

    2008 - 2010

  • Sant Joan Despí Funeral Services

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

    Sant Joan Despí Funeral Services

    The proposal for the new funeral parlour of Sant Joan Despí improves the services of the existing cemetery with a new mortuary that complements the current offer of services, dignifying access to the existing cemetery. The new funeral parlour is integrated into the landscape, respecting the nature of the park that the place must have, given its urban situation, preserving and reforesting the existing vegetal slopes around the area of implementation and incorporating part of the volume of the building to the existing topography. The floor of the building, of 700 m2, has two clearly differentiated areas; on the one hand, the public area formed by the set of rooms designed to serve the users of the facility and, on the other hand, the private sphere configured by the service pieces necessary for the preparation of the deceased and the movement of coffins between them. A patio system completes the organisation of the floor plan, organising and providing light to it.

    2009 - 2011

  • 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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