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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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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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S’incorpora com a arquitecte associat a l’Estudi de Carlos Ferrater l’any 2003. El 2006 constitueix amb Carlos Ferrater, Lucía Ferrater i Borja Ferrater la societat Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB) juntament amb Núria Ayala com a directora de projectes.

Coautor amb Carlos Ferrater del passeig Marítim a la platja de Ponent, la torre d’oficines Mediapro al districte 22@, la torre WTC de Cornellà, la torre Aquileia a Jesolo, Venècia, la casa AA a Sant Cugat del Vallès i diversos edificis d’oficines a Barcelona, Madrid i Bilbao.

Actualment està treballant en projectes tant a escala nacional com internacional, a països com França, Marroc, Mèxic i Equador.

Ha rebut el Premi Ciutat de Barcelona del 2008 com a coautor de l’edifici torre Mediapro a Barcelona.

Com a coautor del passeig Marítim de la platja de Ponent de Benidorm, ha rebut el Premi Nacional d’Arquitectura Espanyola 2011 de Disseny Urbà, 1r premi CEMEX 2011 a la categoria Infraestructura i Urbanisme, el 2n en Sostenibilitat Internacional i el 3r en Accessibilitat Internacional, premi WAN 2011 Disseny Urbà, Insígnia d’or 2010 atorgada per HOSBEC, premi d’arquitectura COACV 2007-2009 a la categoria d’Urbanisme i Paisatge, premi FAD d’Arquitectura 2010 en la categoria Ciutat i Paisatge, Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award "best new global design" 2010, premi Saloni d’Arquitectura 2010, Premi Fopa 2009 a l’obra de millor integració a l’entorn i respecte mediambiental, premi Aplus 2010 a l’Arquitectura d’Espais Públics i Infraestructures, premi Europeu de l’Espai Públic Urbà "Public Space" de 2010 amb menció especial, VIII Premis de Ceràmica ASCER 2009, premi Saló Immobiliari Madrid 2006, premi ASPRIMA 2006 pel millor desenvolupament del turisme i un lloc finalista al Premi Europeu del Paisatge "Rosa Barba" 2010 i a la XI Biennal Espanyola d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme 2011, amb reconeixement exprés. El 2012 va rebre el primer premi dels Premis Porcelanosa, com a coautor de Casa BF a Castelló.

Ha publicat juntament amb Carlos Ferrater el llibre Benidorm. West Beach Promenade, editat per Actar i el llibre La Casa AA/Origami House, editat per aMag.
Ha fet conferències a Espanya, França, Xina, Mèxic, Itàlia i Estònia. Ha estat president del tribunal de projectes de final de carrera a l’Escola d’Arquitectura de la Salle 2012 i president del tribunal del Màster Habilitant de l’Escola d’Arquitectura de la Salle 2010, així com jurat a diversos premis d’arquitectura nacionals i internacionals. El 2010 va ser professor convidat del Màster de Projectes XXI de la UPC.

Des de juny de 2012 diverses maquetes i dibuixos originals del passeig Marítim de Benidorm han passat a formar part de la col•lecció permanent del Centre Nacional d’Art i de Cultura Georges Pompidou.

Author: Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB)

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  1. Plaça de Lesseps Apartment Building

    Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), Lucía Ferrater Arquer, Carlos Ferrater i Lambarri, Xavier Martí Galí

    Plaça de Lesseps Apartment Building

    The building volume is part of one of the new metropolitan plans of the city of Barcelona along with the opening of a new street and the widening of another. The volumetric proposal of this building is solved in an organic way by dividing the building into two parts separated by a free space between the blocks. This decision allows to optimise the passage with eight-meter-deep lights in its corresponding façade and to ventilate all the rooms to the outside. The fit of the building in the free space between blocks in the longitudinal direction allows a turn to the chamfer that collects the double façade of the building, emphasising the volumetric fracture, and thus lightening the frontality of the building. In this way, verticality is again achieved with an organic image of a bicephalous building. On the ground floor, access to the premises also takes place from the space between the two blocks and also from the streets. The car park is distributed in three basements occupying 100% of the gauge and is accessed through a ramp located next to the dividing wall with access to Riera de Vallcarca Street, which is the lowest point of the site. The accesses to the houses are made through four gates located two by two in the North and South façades respectively. The façades offer a set of fixed shutters and metal sliding windows that open and close the terraces and allow a better integration of the interior and exterior spaces that dim the natural light. The shutters are made up of stainless-steel uprights and pearl grey lacquered tubular crosspieces and are framed by thin steel handrails forming a grid where the verticals set a rhythm and the horizontal ones sharpen the edges of the slab. These lattice façade plans, together with the glass interior plan, are woven around its perimeter, creating interstitial spaces, places of transition between the city and inhabited interior space, a legacy of the Mediterranean architecture of Coderch. The building, together with the Joan Fuster Library, stands as an icon of the new Lesseps Square.

  2. Mediapro Building

    Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), Patrick Genard & Asociados, Carlos Ferrater i Lambarri, Patrick Genard, Xavier Martí Galí

    Mediapro Building

    The building is the first piece of a sequence that ends in the Agbar tower. In this context, it turns its head and faces the Diagonal in such a way that it turns the casual factor of the foreshortening into a respectful façade aligned with the great avenue. In the first four floors, the building is perforated to allow Bolivia street to reach the end and focus the urban perspective. On the upper floors, it looks diagonally for the upper edge of the tower to generate an interaction between the two alignments that produces a dynamic game of shadows. The low body or plinth penetrates under the tower and, with its transparent façade, produces a new public space, a triangular square. The office tower offers great flexibility of use thanks to diaphanous floor plans that derive from the absence of pillars or intermediate structures. A single and repeated window, developed in continuity on all the façades, offers good lighting and views, as well as a great versatility of interior distribution. Audiovisual production and teaching in the lower body and business management in the tower constitute a programmatic unit. The structural skeleton becomes the final form of the building because the coincidence between the supporting structure and the façade is achieved. The fusion of a structural membrane or diaphragm with the post-tensioned slabs allows large spans as well as giving rigidity to the whole. The lattice of pillars and the slabs allow the pillar-forge assembly to be considered as if it were large Vierendel beams.

  3. Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Edificis d'Ús No Residencial de Promoció Privada
    Mediapro Building

  4. Mostres d'Arquitectura (Barcelona)

    Shortlisted. Category: Edificis d'Habitatges Plurifamiliars de Promoció Privada
    Plaça de Lesseps Apartment Building

  5. Casa Davant del Mar

    Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), Lucía Ferrater Arquer, Xavier Martí Galí

    Casa Davant del Mar

    Situada la badia de Port de la Selva, a la costa nord del Parc Natural del Cap de Creus, davant del mar i la tramuntana. La casa, una construcció entre mitgeres, recull l'herència cultural del lloc i pren com a referència les cases Villavecchia de F. Corretja i A. Milá i la casa Senillosa de J.A. Coderch, ambdues ubicades a la població veïna de Cadaqués, i són exemple del respecte per allò tradicional, tot incorporant-hi comoditats i elements moderns. Construïda en una parcel·la profunda i estreta entre dos carrers: el passeig de la Platja i el carrer Selva de Mar, i té edificis molt propers i de major altura. La secció resol els condicionants de la normativa del casc antic per mitjà d'un escalonament de la secció a mesura que s'aproxima al carrer posterior, millora les condicions d'assolellament i ventilació i adequa les alçades, com les façanes tradicionals dels patis protegits. Atesa la proporció allargada de la parcel·la, l'orientació solar al nord, els difícils condicionants meteorològics i la falta de privadesa, la casa planteja un pati aïllat i protegit en un lloc central obert a la casa, que es converteix en un espai de relació i estar, que participa del dia i la nit, i que es protegeix de la calor, el fred, la pluja i el vent. Aquest és el lloc de relació entre els habitants i el seu espai íntim imaginat per a una vida no amenaçada. L'interior de la casa es distribueix en tres nivells. A la planta baixa, hi ha un accés pels dos carrers; hi ha un accés posterior al garatge i un accés per als vianants a la part del davant, per la qual s'accedeix directament a l'espai de cuina-menjador-pati, mantenint així la tipologia de casa de pescadors. A la primera planta hi ha els dormitoris, als quals s'accedeix per dues escales; una interior i una altra exterior. En aquest nivell el pati és un atri de distribució a través d'una galeria penjada que genera un contínuum centre de la vida domèstica. Finalment, al segon nivell hi ha la biblioteca, l'estar i una terrassa protegida que mira cap al mar. Constructivament, la casa es resol economitzant mitjans i reconeixent la lògica estructural interna dels seus materials, que, gràcies a la incidència de la llum, manifesten els aspectes més sensitius del seu interior. El rigor, l'austeritat i la materialitat defineixen els espais que connecten l'escala domèstica de la casa amb el pati o domini figurat, que, en transcendir allò domèstic, construeix una escala major en la qual l'imaginari enriqueix la forma d'habitar.

  6. Premis d’Arquitectura de les Comarques de Girona

    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Architecture
    Casa Davant del Mar

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