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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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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 Ornaque

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús Quintero

With the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

Collaborating Entities:

ArquinFAD

 

Fundació Mies van der Rohe

 

Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico

 

Arxiu Mas

 

Basílica de la Sagrada Família

 

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

 

EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona

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  1. Remodelling and Extension of La Bonaigua Sports Complex

    Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos, Jaime Coll López, Judith Leclerc

    Remodelling and Extension of La Bonaigua Sports Complex

    The project deals with the intervention on a sports facilities built in 1976, with a swimming pool added ten years later. The pre-existing set presented serious dysfunctions from a traffic and communications point of view, both internally and with the elements of the environment. The initial project proposed the construction of a multi-sports hall next to the pre-existing facilities, but the final intervention acts on all the elements of the old hall, by means of the addition of new architectural elements or the recovery of other elements that were obsolete from a functional point of view. A new building that acts as a transport interchange is constructed. The intervention takes into account two basic considerations: the relationship of the new sports complex with its immediate environment, and the articulation and coherence of the different functional components that make it up.
  2. FAD Award

    Finalist. Category: Architecture
    Remodelling and Extension of La Bonaigua Sports Complex

  3. Montilivi Primary Healthcare Centre

    Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos, Jaime Coll López, Judith Leclerc

    Montilivi Primary Healthcare Centre

    El projecte adopta una configuració distributiva que vol respectar l’equivalència entre el passadís, la sala d’espera, l’aula o la consulta, que són els elements propis d’un centre d’assistència primària. En una planta baixa rectangular es disposen quatre corredors longitudinals que divideixen l’àrea en cinc crugies iguals. Els elements del programa s’insereixen dins les bandes, tot evitant la continuïtat dels passadissos i afavorint la flexibilitat de les circulacions. Els patis interiors esdevenen els elements clau que atorguen identitat a cada àmbit, i queden reflectits a la planta coberta com les úniques peces fermes de tota la distribució.
  4. Mallorca Apartment Building and School

    Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos, Jaime Coll López, Judith Leclerc

    Mallorca Apartment Building and School

    We recover a typology which is not very usual in the Eixample, Antonio Bonet's "Mediterraneo" block, a hybrid that did not seek so much to break with Cerdà's rules, but to explore the true potential of those ordinances that were never approved, which allowed accidents to be approved as a regular and not exceptional component of the Eixample. The project widens the sidewalks, moving the pedestrian away from the road traffic to the point of visually and physically connecting Londres Street with a park inside the block, and recovers an idea of a permeable block that is in the origin of the Eixample. Londres Streets extends the 20 metres with a succession of parallel spaces. We divide the building into narrow, parallel and staggered volumes from north to south, allowing the sun to reach both the homes and the children's classrooms, avoiding the compactness and ventilation courtyards typical of the Eixample, and we achieve that two different programs (school and housing) coexist and dialogue. A passage that decongests the sidewalks of parents and students appears between these two programs. There is an alternation of full and empty spaces, of light and building, creating visual relationships and transversal connections between the street and the interior of the block. Therefore, the project proposes to requalify the accesses, circulations and open spaces, both in the school and in the homes: the roofs are playgrounds, the walkways are places of relationship and exchange. The housing block is organised in a corridor of 7.5 metres deep, obtaining 45 pass-through homes of 45 m2 with natural cross ventilation and sun throughout the home thanks to the shallow depth in which they are developed.
  5. Premi Ciutat de Barcelona

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and Urbanism
    Mallorca Apartment Building and School

  6. Sant Gregori School

    Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos, Jaime Coll López, Judith Leclerc

    Sant Gregori School

    The Sant Gregori School in Barcelona was built in 1972 in Collserola. The original project was laid out on terraces of the land, staggering the slabs. The integration of its section is attractive, as well as the fluidity of its interior, but it currently has serious accessibility and evacuation difficulties, a lack of facilities suitable to current standards and, in addition, it is a school that lacks pre-school education (3 to 6 years). Therefore, the assignment focused on the reform, improvement and expansion of the facilities of the current teaching centre, and on moving the children's classrooms, currently in Arimón Street. The expansion foresees the construction of an underground car park, 6 classrooms for the pre-school cycle (3 to 6 years old), 6 additional primary classrooms and a music school that will equip the centre with a new multipurpose room (gymnastics-shows) with a capacity of up to 300 people. The starting urban planning requirements were: - Set back the building (to not create a façade on Carles Riba Street). - Unitary intervention, not fragmented. - Occupy the natural space of the rest of the plot as little as possible. -To not extend to the high elevations of the plot. In addition, we add that the intervention should be minimal in appearance; it would be an operation of occupying voids, emptying and filling again, replacing floors in poor condition, creating multipurpose spaces, using the roofs as playing areas that allow children to be separated by ages. The school had a natural outdoor reception area with 3 pine trees that we set out to preserve and enhance. Around this courtyard and replacing the first terrace on which the school is located, we have built a new semi-underground administration (control and reception) which allows connecting the old building from street level with a lift. To the east, a multipurpose room (sports and entertainment) with a cover that is a basketball court. This layout is closed to the west with a grandstand-staircase that creates an agora, an outdoor public space covered by the three pines, which connects to the stage of the multipurpose room thanks to a large sliding door. Therefore, the spaces are linked, and the stage can pivot and serve inside or outside the agora. The result is a new welcoming space where parents or children can wait, play or perform shows. It is a space that is not bounded by walls but continues towards the interior of the building, giving it greater depth especially in the afternoon with the illuminated administration. The rest of the volumes are placed to the west, restoring the profile of the excavated mountain, receding and staggered, creating playing terraces and connecting to the old school to facilitate its evacuation. Children's classrooms on the ground floor, primary school on the first floor and music school on floors 2 and 3, a dislocated volume of two floors that is placed over the kindergarten and primary classrooms, covered in anthracite Zinc. At first floor level, the new roofs are finished with green Composan, connecting all the spaces longitudinally with great fluidity. The building has obtained an "A" energy rating. The entire face exposed to the south is protected by flights or by a lattice of pine wood that protects the classrooms from direct sunlight. In the same way, the basketball court above the multipurpose room is surrounded by Rivisa galvanised mesh through which climbing plants will climb.
  7. FAD Award

    Shortlisted. Category: Architecture
    Sant Gregori School

  8. 22@ Dwellings

    Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos, Jaime Coll López, Judith Leclerc

    22@ Dwellings

    For the first time in Barcelona, two usually separate programs are combined in the same building: sheltered rental housing with temporary accommodation equipment for the inclusion of the most vulnerable groups. The design of the set responds to three basic criteria: 1. Urban responsibility: we generate a public space and equip the ground floor with collective services. We organise the program in three vertical blocks, generating a public space as mentioned but with an interior street that separates and at the same time connects the accommodation with the homes and organises the accesses and communications allowing good cross ventilation throughout the whole. 2. Social responsibility: we understand the inclusion and accessibility of marginalised people in the broadest sense from the program. We match or compensate the conditions of the different parts of the program and dignify the accommodations without increasing the cost. It will be possible to reuse the building of temporary accommodation with another use and we obtain a balance between the parts of the program, because all the houses have the same qualities, there are no differences in orientation or sunshine. 3. Energy responsibility: we respond to the site and the program with a passive environmental attitude that reduces energy demand: good ventilation and good solar capture, saving energy. We get 100% of homes with sunlight. This makes it possible to activate the passive solar energy harvesting device of winter gardens, which cover 23% of the heating demand in winter. In summer, nighttime cross-ventilation of the conservatory and its daytime solar protection with shutters covers 43% of the cooling demand. This is complemented by high-efficiency systems such as aerothermia and a heat recovery system for double-flow ventilation, thus achieving an A energy certification for the finished building.
  9. EU Mies Award

    Nominated
    22@ Dwellings

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