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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2025 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2025 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 OrnaqueCollaborators:
2019-2025 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse ViuExternal Collaborators:
2019-2025 Helena Cepeda Inès MartinelWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació 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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Capella de les Germanes Carmelites de Sant Josep
Es tractava de construir una capella annexa a una residència per a ancianes, en un solar de forma trapezoidal. Aquesta residència estava situada paral·lelament al carrer Domínguez Miralles, per aconseguir així obtenir una major zona de jardí orientada al migdia. En el plantejament inicial del projecte van aparèixer dos problemes, el primer era solucionar l'exacta ubicació de la capella dins del conjunt, perquè aquesta no produís ombres sobre la residència i el segon, resoldre d'una manera adequada el gran desnivell existent al mateix solar. La solució escollida ha consistit a evitar la construcció d'un gran mur de contenció i substituir-lo per uns contraforts de formigó, enllaçats entre si per uns arcs d'obra vista, que actuen de grans jardineres. Aquests contraforts es prolonguen convertint-se en uns nervis que formen l'envolupant volumètrica i els elements resistents de la capella, la forma cònica dels quals evita al màxim les possibles ombres sobre la residència. La capella és de planta heptagonal, amb un tancament a la part baixa de maó vist tant interiorment com exteriorment. La resta del tancament s'aconsegueix mitjançant uns arcs voltes de rajola que van de nervi a nervi. L'acabat esmaltat d'aquesta rajola es deu a Jordi Aguadé. La llum entra per unes finestres emplomades (treball que es deu a Vila Grau) que estan situades entre la paret d'obra i els arcs de voltes, de manera que s'aconsegueix com una ondulació de colors que envolten el recinte. També s'obté il·luminació a través d'una cúpula que corona el punt més alt de la capella. Els paraments blancs dels arcs voltes, l'obra vista, el color gris del formigó, el paviment de gres i els elements de fusta del confessionari, la porta i la sagristia són elements fonamentals de l'obra. Cal destacar també un crucifix obra de l'escultor Fita. -
Premi Ciutat de Barcelona
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Restauració de FaçanesRestauració de la Casa Garriga NoguésPremi Ciutat de Barcelona
Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture and UrbanismContinuation of Work on the Sagrada Familia Expiatory TempleContinuation of Work on the Sagrada Familia Expiatory Temple
Jordi Bonet i Armengol, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet
Jordi Bonet i Armengol was appointed chief architect in 1985. The work focuses on the detailed study and construction of the interior space of the temple (main nave, transept, apse and crossing), applying the defined procedures and geometries done in detail by Gaudí in the 1:10 scale plaster models. At this stage, the geometry and proportions that govern the original models are studied in detail, and 3D computer modeling is introduced for the development of the project and the production of stone pieces. In the construction field, the Catalan vault is introduced for the vaults of the central nave’s interior, following the generators of the regulated geometry, and the incorporation of Venetian glass in accordance with the symbolism. The interior of the basilica, which is dedicated to the Holy Father Benedict XVI on November 7, will be closed in 2010. In the same year, the Temple of the Sagrada Família’s nave done by Antoni Gaudí was awarded the Ciutat de Barcelona prize in the category of architecture and urbanism. Under his direction, Josep Maria Subirachs was in charge of the execution of the sculptural ensemble of the Façade of the Passion and the stained glass windows of the naves by the artist Joan Vila-Grau. Once the naves were finished, the work focused on the construction of the Sacristy, which, according to Gaudí, would become the model the towers of the central dome would follow.Audiovisual
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