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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

Documental 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 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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Martí Sanz Ausàs (Barcelona 1974) Arquitecte, combina l’activitat professional amb la docència, Professor de Projectes a l’ETSAB des de l’any 2007 i la recerca, Màster en Teoria i Pràctica del Projecte Arquitectònic per la UPC 2008-09). La seva obra, d’edificació, paisatge i disseny tant d’àmbit públic com privat, ha estat premiada, publicada i exposada. 2006 Finalista Premis FAD de Ciutat i Paisatge 2007 1er Premi d’opinió dels Premis FAD d’Arquitectura. 2008 Seleccionat per l’Exposició Jovenes Arquitectos Españoles (JAE). 1er Premi de la 2ona Triennal del Baix Llobregat, Alt Penedès i Garraf en la categoria d’Habitatges. Obra Finalista als Premis Catalunya Construcció. 2011 1er Premi Triennal d’Arquitectura Maresme en la categoria de Paisatge 2012 Obra seleccionada als Premis FAD d’Arquitectura. Obra seleccionada a la 7ena Biennal Europea de Paisatge. 2015 1er Premi del jurat i de l’opinió dels Premis FAD en la categoria d’Intervencions Efímeres.

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  1. Municipal Swimming Pools

    Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB), DataAE, Claudi Aguiló Aran, Claudi Aguiló Riu, Martí Sanz Ausàs

    Municipal Swimming Pools

    Given the small dimensions of the site, the main objective of the project is the design of a compact construction, which reduces the potential volumetry of the large surface area equipment and which encompasses, in a single form, the diversity of the program (pools + competition pool with stands + fitness rooms + changing rooms + bar + beauty areas + administration). At the same time and using contemporary construction systems, the exterior expresses, through a repeated window, the variability of its interior. The project wanders and recreates itself between uniqueness and variability.
  2. AD House

    DataAE, Claudi Aguiló Aran, Albert Domingo Ollé, Martí Sanz Ausàs

    AD House

    An organisation of the program is proposed by centralising the less private dependencies of the house on the first floor by introducing a ventilated patio-terrace, which allows the living room to face south and at the same time illuminate the lower floor where an outdoor parking, a multipurpose space and the bedrooms. On the second floor, the master bedroom is located as a suite. Construction: vertical steel structure with joints welded in the workshop and assembled and bolted on site, with wooden ceilings with microlaminated beams and Kerto-type plywood boards. External ceramic enclosure with plastered and painted finish, with a protection of ventilated wooden slats on the faces exposed to direct solar radiation. The non-passable roofs are landscaped with low-maintenance plants and the passable ones are with ventilated wooden slats.
  3. NA House

    DataAE, Claudi Aguiló Aran, Martí Sanz Ausàs

    NA House

    The project adopts the dominant urban typology in the immediate environment, which is characterised by being located close to the boundary of the plot facing the street and by exhausting the building width in order to compact the building and maximise the rear garden. In this way, the height at which the building is located is used to enjoy the views of the horizon and to house in the garden a swimming pool related to the more extroverted life of its inhabitants. Simultaneously, the project introduces a courtyard in the two-storey building, which on the ground floor is closed on its four sides and on the first floor is an open U facing south. This yard operates as follows: - Eliminates the house-garden dichotomy, introducing a space in between that de-densifies the interior space and prolongs the experience of the house. - Introduces light and ventilation in the central part of the building. - Solves privacy problems by creating an intimate space protected from neighbouring views. - It allows the building to be semi-buried since the side façades of the house can be blind to contain soil and therefore follow the current levels and to avoid the need to open windows towards the neighbouring façades. - It allows the building to be semi-buried since the side façades of the house can be blind to contain soil and therefore follow the current levels and to avoid the need to open windows towards the neighbouring façades.
  4. FAD Award

    Finalist. Category: Architecture
    AD House

  5. El Turó del Sastre Park

    DataAE, Claudi Aguiló Aran, Martí Sanz Ausàs

    El Turó del Sastre Park

    The park is structured through two types of routes: those responsible for direct connectivity between the city and the park and those that organise the routes through the landscape, linking the different seating areas to reach the most significant points. The diversity of routes can also be explained by the diversity of materials that make them up. Each type of pavement corresponds to a different route with a different function within the intervention. Urban connectivity routes are made with materials of mineral origin. The routes specific to the upper part of Turó del Sastre Park are defined with materials of plant origin.
  6. Pere IV Secondary School

    MIM-Arquitectes, Mariona Benedito Ribelles, Martí Sanz Ausàs

    Pere IV Secondary School

    The building has a rectangular shape that manages to complete the construction of the block because it is attached to the northwest partition and is parallel to Batista Street, and it also creates an urban continuity on Batista Street and formalises the corner with Camí Antic de Valencia. Likewise, the building has a suitable height for the width of Batista Street (10m.) and creates continuity with the building of the Cooperativa de Justícia i Pau, which has a similar height. Through the hollowing out of the form, the project generates two courtyards that, in addition to providing light and ventilation to the classrooms, create a distance from the houses on Batista Street and, in this way, achieve optimal privacy to carry out their activity. Finally, with the intention of creating an access space protected from water, the project practices a third hollow in the corner that acts as a reception and configures the profile of the building.
  7. FAD Award

    Shortlisted. Category: Architecture
    Pere IV Secondary School

  8. FAD Award

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Intervencions Efímeres
    Les Llàgrimes de Santa Eulàlia

  9. 79 Habitatges amb Protecció al Saló Central

    Estudio Herreros, MIM-Arquitectes, Mariona Benedito Ribelles, Juan Herreros, Jens Richter, Martí Sanz Ausàs

    79 Habitatges amb Protecció al Saló Central

    The programme, comprised of protected, affordable and mixed social housing, requires the available volume to be almost completely filled. This limitation alonside the self-imposed requirements of efficiency and simplicity, poses a challenge in building a project with some added value. An investigation was carried out to find the hidden potential of a proposal that is pragmatic but also sensitive to subtle external stimuli. A 12 housing units floor plan is drawn that uses up the limited connection space by introducing a trough-vestibule with a single central core containing two intertwined stairs, two elevators and two installation cores. This leaves us with a single through-vestibule and a single service core on the ground floor affecting the clarity of the retail space and the underground parking garage. With regard to the dwellings, the living rooms and bedrooms are outward-facing, while the kitchens, bathrooms and hallways face the walkways shared by each group of three neighbours. From this layout, which solidifies the available volume, subtraction operations are performed that wittle away the volume to generate a new morphology with generous collective and individual terraces, facilitating cross ventilation and diagonal views by lightening the original density and orienting the building towards its most attractive landscapes. The exterior facades are repetitive, clad in industrial ventilated panels. They feature large groupes of windows with an accentuated horizontal dimension that simplify the appearence of the building (fortunately surrounded by públic space) and give it a certain monumental quality. Colour is an important ingredient of this distinctive silhouette, with a playful range of green hues that respond to the possibilities of the surroundings. The facades of the patios and walkways are in very bright and luminous colours, combining two similar hues to create a vibrancy that enhances their joyfulness. The materials employed give it an almmost picturesque quality though the use of lattice, tiles and floorings that create a herringbone patern widely seen in the Mediterranean tradition. Inside the dwellings, the joinery enhances a desired "balcony" effect that significantly expands the interior space.
  10. FAD Award

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture
    79 Habitatges amb Protecció al Saló Central

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