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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
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:
2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús QuinteroWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació 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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The Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya is one of the most important documentation centers in Europe, which houses the professional collections of more than 180 architects whose work is fundamental to understanding the history of Catalan architecture. By filling this form, you can request digital copies of the documents for which the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya manages the exploitation of the author's rights, as well as those in the public domain. Once the application has been made, the Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya will send you an approximate budget, which varies in terms of each use and purpose.
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Sant Quintí I Dwellings
Joan Arias i Roig, Lluís Pérez de la Vega, Luis Twose
The Sant Quintí I building is part of a wider project that includes a set of homes and apartments that occupies one side and two chamfers of an Eixample block, the buildings of which are independent by their type of development, although they maintain the façade unit and access to the parking floor. It consists of 87 furnished apartments for rent, offices, commercial premises, communal laundry, bar-restaurant connected to the lobby and parking. It is an outwardly compact, hermetic building, where the façade is shown as an envelope that covers everything and even tries to encompass the attic floors, perforated by openings, where the functions of the interior are not distinguished and that, determined by the corner geometry of the extension, adopts different alterations in the overhangs to accentuate the unity of the façade and give direction to it. The two attic floors, set back from the façade are understood as part of it, belonging to the same surrounding, and it uses, in addition to the variation between the type plants, a metal structure added to the terraces of attics as an element that blurs the variations with the rest and gives longitudinal direction. The scheme follows the typology of Barcelona's Eixample, with the inner courtyard as the backbone of the homes. It is very bright, with white tiled walls and crossed by the access roads to the apartments, opening to the outside and to the sun through a circular glass staircase of 4 m in diameter in the central area and connected on the SW-facing island patio. The central courtyard, to which most of the bedrooms ventilate, organises the distribution in plan, and also in height as it reaches the ground floor and occasionally to the basement floor and constitutes the large hall space. -
Sant Quintí II Dwellings
Joan Arias i Roig, Lluís Pérez de la Vega, Luis Twose
The Sant Quintí II building is part of a wider project that includes a set of homes and apartments that occupies one of the sides and two chamfers of an Eixample block; independent buildings due to the type of exchange promotion which still maintain the unit of façade and access to the parking floor. Located between partitions, reaching the chamfer with Industria Street, it is developed in: six type floors and an attic, intended for housing, mezzanine floor for offices, ground floor for lobbies and commercial premises, and basement floor for parking. There are 12 homes per floor served by three stairs. These are rent-free, with a living-dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a terrace. The scheme follows the current typology of Barcelona's Eixample, with the inner courtyard as the backbone element and a staircase that serves four homes per floor. In the central part of the plot, there are two staircases, each with two houses facing the street and two on the patio. In the central part the courtyards of light that communicate with each other are located. The houses have double ventilation on the façade and patio. In the chamfer area, another staircase serves four houses facing the street and with a courtyard of lights in the middle. The façade is solved in a unitary manner in the set of both buildings, following the guidelines of Sant Quintí I: it is treated as an externally compact building, where the façade is shown as an envelope that covers everything and even tries to encompass the attic floors, perforated by openings, where the functions of the interior are not distinguished and which, determined by the corner geometry of the extension, adopts different alterations in the overhangs to accentuate the unity of the façade and give direction to it. -
Building with 48 Dwellings and Civic Centre
Joan Arias i Roig, Lluís Pérez de la Vega
This building, built in the old town of Barcelona, reflects the desire to adapt to the environment without mimicry, respecting volume, a uniform distribution of spaces and voids and the use of sustainable façade materials that age well. It is considered important to reuse elements of the old, demolished buildings that were determined to be more valuable, such as the Neo-Gothic stone arches of Montjuïc located on the ground floor. The structure is of reinforced concrete, visible in most of the building. The walls have pieces of Begur stone with irregular spacing and full joint as an exterior finish. A considerable thickness of façade gives a strong thermal inertia to the building, as well as better acoustic insulation. It has 48 two-bedroom homes, a neighbourhood facility on the ground floors and an apartment with a SW terrace and basement parking. Located on the corner between Nou de La Rambla and De L’Est Streets, access to the residential area is via the latter through a tall porch that surrounds the south façade. This helps to give more space to this part of the street and connects with the green area planned by PERI, leaving access from Nou de la Rambla Street for public facilities. The floor plan is made with a single core of access to the central area that serves twelve homes per floor, and at each end of the L-shaped corridor, a unique area illuminates the emergency staircase and a common space facing south. This solution minimises construction, maintenance, cleaning and control costs. The neighbourhood equipment works in a limited way in the outdoor space pending its renovation, and works on a large south-west terrace on the upper floor. The roof of the building is used as a recreation area for the residents.