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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.
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2019-2024 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Francesc Rafat Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Anton Pàmies Mercè Bosch Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Aureli Mora Omar OrnaqueExternal Collaborators:
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FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureApartment Building on Coll del Portell AvenueHorta Municipal Velodrome
Esteve Bonell i Costa, Francesc Rius i Camps
The project assumes the challenge of covering simple programmatic requirements, but with urban implications that make the suitability of the proposal problematic. The new velodrome is located on a plot of land without its own definition, bounded by the Mundet Homes, the Labyrinth of Horta Gardens, a natural valley and the Vall d'Hebron promenade, which marks the boundaries between the built city and the beginning of the undevelopable terrain. The shape and dimensions of the track were determined by strictly technical factors. The main decision of the project is to close the enclosure with a circular portico that allows the same delivery criteria with the different accidents in the area, while allowing the possibility of covering the track with a dome. This portico is 4 metres thick, houses all the services for spectators and leaves a remaining space for a possible extension of the stands, TV cameras, etc.FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: ArchitectureHorta Municipal VelodromeCan Brians Prison
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Manuel Brullet i Tenas, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart, Francesc Rius i Camps
To build a prison is to build a closed world, as were abbeys, monasteries or ancient acropolises. In the image of all of them, a prison is a small abstract world, located in a rural environment where 1500 people live and work. Human relationships, personal and collective interactions and, ultimately, a strong relationship between man and space appear. It is about creating a "city" on virgin land, taking into account geographic and landscape considerations to achieve a good implementation, but above all, it is about solving the highly complex programmatic aspects where control and security issues are prioritised. Urban situations similar to, but not equal to, those of the traditional city are considered. Here the square is not a meeting place, the street has more of a sense of separation than of communication, and in the façades seclusion is more important than the communication between interior and exterior.Salou Municipal Sports Pavilion
Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart, Francesc Rius i Camps
El poliesportiu queda inclòs en un solar rectangular de la zona nord del municipi. La façana més estreta dóna a una plaça de nova creació, entre l’ajuntament i una escola. La nova construcció es planteja com un petit pavelló que dóna façana a la plaça, des d’on s’hi accedeix a través d’una obertura vidrada que abasta gairebé tota l’amplada. A la part oposada s’hi afegeix un reduït gimnàs disponible per a petites funcions de teatre. Les grades, a banda i banda, tenen una capacitat per a 800 espectadors. L’impacte visual de la capsa queda reduït gràcies a la divisió en tres ordres: el de les grades, el de les jàsseres que salven transversalment la llum de la coberta, i el de les lluernes superiors, repartides en tres volums. Des de la plaça s’accedeix al vestíbul a través d’escales i suaus rampes, i des d’aquí es recorre perimetralment aquesta cota aixecada per accedir a les grades i al gimnàs-escenari del fons.Badalona Sports Pavilion
Esteve Bonell i Costa, Francesc Rius i Camps
The project’s approach assumes that it is a multi-sports hall intended for high competition basketball, and therefore linked to one of the most representative and popular factors of the municipality. The various problems generated by its dimensions and importance are addressed independently, although synthesised in a fairly simple organism. The track of the stands takes an ellipsoidal shape: four linked circular arcs, two of them large and two of them small. Circulations from the outside are solved with a large main entrance, oriented towards the city and inclined with respect to the urban axis that culminates, and ten perimeter exits, accessible from the intermediate level. The roof is made up of six large symmetrical girders, paired two by two and locked by a central brace. The building can accommodate up to 12,500 spectators and its maximum dimensions are 150 x 120 metres.FAD Award
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Buildings of new plant for private useRius-Fina HouseEU Mies Award
Award-Winner / WinnerBadalona Sports PavilionEU Mies Award
ShortlistedCan Brians PrisonCentre for Nature and Sustainable Development of the Pyrenees
El programa del centre es divideix en tres blocs: un bloc pedagògic, un bloc residencial i un bloc de serveis. El centre, de més de 3.000 metres quadrats, serveix per fer conèixer la zona i també com a equipament de recerca sobre l’educació ambiental. L’edifici s’obre a una sola façana, i la seva secció permet semisoterrar-lo, de manera que la coberta esdevé una prolongació del prat. La façana orientada al sud i a les bones vistes conté els captadors directes d’energia, les plaques tèrmiques i les plaques fotovoltaiques. L’edifici es trenca en tres blocs, articulats en girs de 15 graus, per tal d’afavorir l’adaptació topogràfica, escurçar les màximes dimensions de la façana i reduir el seu impacte visual en un emplaçament d’alt interès paisatgístic.Dwellings and Offices in Sarrià
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Ribas & Ribas Arquitectes, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart, José Ribas Folguera, José Ribas i González, Francesc Rius i Camps
THE DWELLINGS They are part of a set of buildings intended for housing and offices resulting from the transformation of the old grounds of the R.C.D. Espanyol Football Club. The project arises from the definition of a homogeneous urban piece, but which responds to different volumetric conceptions with different housing options. Large blocks of flats and small multi-family housing buildings provide the appropriate response to the volume of the buildings in the General Mitre Ring Road, Ricardo Villa or Dr. Fleming. THE OFFICES Two buildings, with the 54-metre-high tower taking centre stage, are the reference element on Sarrià Avenue. They are very simple buildings in which the concentration of services allows open floor plans that allow for different distributions of offices. The glazed treatment of the façades, with solar protection overhangs, makes the buildings appear with a great feeling of lightness and transparency.FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureDwellings and Offices in SarriàNew Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
Bonell i Gil Arquitectes, Silvia Barbera, Esteve Bonell i Costa, Josep Lluís Canosa Magret, Josep Maria Gil i Guitart, Francesc Rius i Camps
The new Hospital de Sant Pau is located in the northern triangle of the historic site dominated by the constructions made at the beginning of the century by the architect Domènech i Montaner. The topography and the different urban limits pose two situations: the current entrance to the hospital that faces the Eixample and the Sagrada Família, and the proposed building that faces the layout of the Ronda del Mig. The new hospital consists of two clearly differentiated areas. One contains the program for services and the other one for hospitalisation, linked together by an "intermediary" that acts as a hall. The service building has a façade and is supported on Mas Casanovas Street, assuming the role of building as a plot boundary. The hospital area is formalised as "fingers" of a hand that are inserted into the green space that separates it from the old hospital, achieving a smaller scale of the building and a subtler relationship with the old pavilions.Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)
ShortlistedNew Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant PauBibliography (53)