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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.
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Arquitecta. Titulada per l’ ETSAB el 1979, fundà estudi amb Enric Miralles l’any 1982 on van desenvolupar obres com el cementiri d’Igualada, premi FAD 1991, l’Escola la Llauna (1986) o les instal·lacions de Tir Olímpic (1991). Al 1991 va obrir el seu estudi d’arquitectura abordant projectes tant de reforma urbana, obra pública i mobiliari. Ha realitzat projectes tals com l’Escola Massana (2017), el Campus WU a Viena (2013) o CaixaForum a Saragossa (2014)
Source: Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Pergolas in Major Square
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
Aquestes Cobertes són el primer pas per tornar a fer possible la plaça., Per desplaçar un nou centre definit per les seves ombres. Ara aquestes cobertes atreuen la mirada i són el lloc on començar a pensar les següents intervencions. El mecanisme de construcció és idèntic al seu dibuix sobre el paper: un jàssera en successives contraccions forma la superfície on recolzar cadascun dels sostres. Un pilar és el suport de dos d'aquests. Trobar a l'interior d'un traç ... recórrer-lo com un camí.. i es forma aquella geometria més elemental, la que segueix als impulsos d'algú. Trobar en el seu interior allò que anomenem projecte. -
FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Interior Design
La Llauna Secondary SchoolThe New Igualada Cemetery
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
El cementiri és concebut com un parc, com “la casa dels vius”, un lloc on gaudir del sol i la tranquil·litat qualsevol dia de la setmana. La configuració del parc aprofita un promontori del terreny per fer-hi un trau longitudinal i crear un recorregut de baixada en ziga-zaga, fins a arribar a un rierol situat uns metres més avall. El projecte complet preveia els tres braços de la ziga-zaga, si bé en la primera fase només se n’ha construït un i s’insinua el començament del segon. Els nínxols es disposen a banda i banda del recorregut formant terrasses intermèdies. Uns passos transversals faciliten l’accés a les terrasses laterals, generant un moviment d’ascensió i de descens carregat de connotacions al·legòriques. La construcció dels grups de nínxols es fa sempre amb peces prefabricades de formigó, com també els revestiments dels murs de contenció. El resultat és que els morts es troben sempre sota terra, i els visitants del parc baixen fins al nivell inferior fins a situar-se al mateix nivell dels morts. La capella se situa a l’entrada del recorregut, induint a un ritual que comença amb el funeral i baixa fins a cada nínxol. Enric Miralles és enterrat en un dels panteons que voregen la plaça que marca el gir entre el primer braç i el segon.Premi Ciutat de Barcelona
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Archery RangeFAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner (ex aequo). Category: Buildings of new plant for public useThe New Igualada CemeteryArchery Range
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
The archery facilities are, in fact, the training facilities of this sport built for the 1992 Olympic Games. The competition facilities were on the other side of Granja Vella Street, originally built by the same architects but currently gone. The surviving building is one of the clearest tributes to Park Güell ever built. Like the park, it is configured from the retaining walls that support and limit the upper pedestrian walkway. These retaining walls bend and work organically based on the athletes’ movements as they train. The building consists of covering one of this wall’s folds with a folded roof, an extension of the upper landscape. Mechanical ceramics, together with concrete and cement, form the unique material of the whole intervention. The structures look unstable, crooked, or twisted, depending on the pushing force of the lands they contain. A system of porches covers much of the retaining wall that forms the building, extends it externally, blurs its limits and protects the dry stone that forms them. The roofs have an approximate modulus of the wall’s height and are made up of a series of concrete slabs that slide together with a series of lower gutters that collect and conduct water towards some practiced puddles in the pavement. The interior of the building is paved with curved and exposed ceramic walls that form the dressing rooms and leave the common areas against the back wall. It forms a “landscape that looks at itself”, said Enric Miralles, which is illuminated zenithally through the cracks in the roof and leaving spaces of great beauty, although a little degraded today. The vegetation has been growing from the time when the construction was built until the present day, and it confuses the buildings with a renaturalised environment that introduces additional complexity to the complex.Hostalets de Balenyà Civic Centre
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
El programa requeria incloure les dependències pròpies d’un centre cívic en un solar de la perifèria dels Hostalets de Balenyà. Miralles i Pinós conceben un edifici que dóna l’esquena al poble i creen una façana transparent que genera un espai públic propi, a l’altra banda del carrer. Les dependències més petites del programa (tallers, aules, despatxos) es col·loquen penjades a les plantes superiors, formades per un sistema de bigues de gelosia que s’obren en ventall i que tenen l’alçària d’una planta. Aquest ventall determina el jardí interior i el gran buit que queda a sota, que és una sala d’actes per a 300 persones. El programa és interpretat de forma jeràrquica i en combinació amb la lectura del lloc, de manera que l’edifici podria allotjar programes amb un repartiment semblant. Les escales d’accés a les golfes abracen l’edifici per totes dues bandes, una per l’interior i l’altra per l’exterior.La Mina Social Centre
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
It is an attempt at a construction on a grand scale. These rooves that here are floors and balconies, might be rooves of a garden: it is a construction that makes the necessity of thinking of the the building envelope disappear... The upper surface of concrete solves the problem of the acoustic deficiencies and the room and gives a new dimension to this place to achieve a scenic space where the positions of the actor and public are interchangeable. The balconies are possible places of representation, but also walking arcades. In between the pillars looks like the best place to position the panels of the exhibitions. One should visit this place like the annexe of a local park and for this reason the calligraphy goes out to the exterior.Garau-Agustí House
Enric Miralles i Moya, Carme Pinós i Desplat
This house is mainly a wall, shaped by the movements of the furniture which tries to find its correct position into the room. The interior of a room! The delicate movements of the furniture then enter the garden which forms a continuity with the interior of the house. The back of the house runs on the limit of the urbanistic permission of the piece of land. This limit is the edge used to support the geometry of the house, which finds its place into the strict limitations of the soil. The real façade of the house is in the back, where an important piece of garden grows beneath the perimetral walls of the house and of the garden.FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Interior DesignLa Mina Social CentreFAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureHostalets de Balenyà Civic CentrePremio Nacional de Arquitectura
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: ArchitectureLa Serra Secondary School
L’escola es troba en uns terrenys agrícoles, amb arbres fruiters i petites construccions amb cobertes a dos vessants. Aquests elements suggereixen el concepte de repetició d’elements com a generador de la composició, a més de la voluntat de concentrar l’edificació i ocupar poca superfície de terreny. L’edifici planteja un joc de cobertes inclinades de diferents alçàries, amb tres plantes al llarg de l’eix central i una planta a les crugies perimetrals, la qual cosa crea el ritme repetitiu desitjat. L’escola s’organitza en tres cossos que formen una Y: en un braç hi ha el gimnàs i les activitats esportives; el segon braç és destinat a les aules, mentre que el tercer acull l’entrada i l’aparcament. Les aules s’agrupen entorn de patis per tal d’augmentar la compacitat de l’edifici. Aquests patis funcionen com espais intermedis entre l’interior i l’exterior. Les aules i els laboratoris estan orientats a l’est. Només les àrees de servei i les oficines administratives reben el sol de la tarda. El gran eix central, il·luminat des de dalt, connecta i relaciona tot el programa. És un espai obert i unitari, que proporciona un lloc de referència per als estudiants dins la totalitat de l’edifici.Lluís Vives Primary School
The general approach of the project responds to two of the site’s characteristics: the intermittent noise of the train and a too close exposure to the houses that surround it. The L-shaped building is located away from the houses and parallel to the railway, so that it encloses the plot and creates a courtyard facing south. This makes it possible to protect the play area from the noise of the train and from the views of the houses. The ground floor of one of the wings is intended for common spaces. The smallest ones are placed on the ground floor of the other wing, which have their own outdoor space and their classrooms on the upper floor, facing the inside of the plot and turning their backs on the train track.Rear Façade of La Boqueria Market
The expansion of the Boqueria responds to the need to create a new market façade in the place that until now occupied the loading and unloading area for goods and waste, moved to the basement of the car park. To give continuity to the existing roofs without competing with them, we choose to change the scale by creating lower roofs and closer to what is considered an open market of public space. We decide to change the rhythm of the existing porticos -which currently give us a symmetrical image focused on the office tower- for a freer roof structure that provides it with a more vital nature and allows its integration with the trees and the circulations of the square.Audiovisual
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