How to get there
About
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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
About us
Project by: 
Created by: 
Directors:
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
Suggestion box
Request the image
We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data. Please do only fill in the fields you deem necessary to add or amend the information.
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.
close
close
Memory
The new head office and service centre of Banc de Sabadell is planned as a transformation and extension of the Landscape office complex that we designed and built for the Banc de Sabadell in 2003.
The existing building consists of a longitudinal bar of offices that follows the geometry of the plot along the B-30 highway and an industrial building intended for archives at the back, connected to the offices by four bridges elevated from the access floor to the building.
The proposal proposes demolishing the existing industrial building to concentrate its buildability in a new volume of offices, so that a large, landscaped area is freed in the centre of the site which becomes the entry point to the different buildings of the new headquarters.
Under this central green space is the complex's service floor (auditorium, cafeteria, rest room, gym, training rooms, commercial area, bank office, infirmary, etc.) with direct connection to the office buildings, and below this, two parking floors connected at level with the existing ones.
With this strategy we managed to change the character of the place, which goes from being a building in an industrial area, to an office complex around some gardens.
The fact that the new volume of offices is concentrated in a small tower allows not only to free up "green" space but to set the standard for how the bank's future building growth should be on the adjacent plot, also owned by Banco Sabadell.
Authors
On the Map
Awarded
Cataloged
Disappeared
All works
Constellation
Chronology
-
Seu Central del Banc Sabadell
Bach Arquitectes, Jaume Bach i Núñez, Eugeni Bach Triadó
En el polígon industrial de Can Sant Joan, als afores de Barcelona, en un solar al costat del nus de l’autopista A-7 i la B-30, es projecta un edifici d’oficines i naus industrials que ha de tenir una forta i representativa imatge des de l’autopista i, alhora, una bona integració en el paisatge. El projecte proposa, seguint les ordenances d’aplicació i els requeriments del programa, un edifici dividit en dues parts. Una nau industrial, amb accés des de la part nord-est del solar que, si és necessari, pugui funcionar independentment de la resta de l’edifici. Aquesta nau es disposa a la distància adequada del límit del solar per a permetre la càrrega i descàrrega i el gir de les maniobres dels camions. La nau és de forma rectangular, excepte en l’extrem oest que gira seguint un arc de circumferència de manera que permet que la resta de l’edifici giri i s’adapti a la geometria corba del solar. Aquesta nau consta de 4 altells en la seva façana de càrrega i descàrrega per a permetre el control, l’entrada i sortida de mercaderies i per a ubicar-hi l’espai necessari per a administració. Paral·lelament a aquesta nau, es desenvolupa un edifici de PB+IV que alberga les oficines. Aquestes es plantegen sense cap tipus de distribució interior, a excepció dels nuclis d’escala, vestíbuls i instal·lacions que formen uns espais compactes en la part central i en la façana nord-est de les oficines. Entre els dos volums (nau industrial i edifici d’oficines) es planteja un carrer d’entrada a la cota de planta soterrani. Aquest carrer permet l’entrada als aparcaments, situats en aquesta planta i dos soterranis més, passant sota quatre ponts que uneixen les dues parts de l’edifici en planta baixa. Les façanes de l’edifici d’oficines s’han plantejat amb diferents tipus de peces de formigó prefabricat; a la façana a l’autopista, amb prefabricats de formigó blanc foradats en voladís, i a la façana que dóna a la nau, amb prefabricats blanc i gris formant un joc dinàmic de tonalitats. -
Extension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell
Bach Arquitectes, Jaume Bach i Núñez, Eugeni Bach Triadó
The new head office and service centre of Banc de Sabadell is planned as a transformation and extension of the Landscape office complex that we designed and built for the Banc de Sabadell in 2003. The existing building consists of a longitudinal bar of offices that follows the geometry of the plot along the B-30 highway and an industrial building intended for archives at the back, connected to the offices by four bridges elevated from the access floor to the building. The proposal proposes demolishing the existing industrial building to concentrate its buildability in a new volume of offices, so that a large, landscaped area is freed in the centre of the site which becomes the entry point to the different buildings of the new headquarters. Under this central green space is the complex's service floor (auditorium, cafeteria, rest room, gym, training rooms, commercial area, bank office, infirmary, etc.) with direct connection to the office buildings, and below this, two parking floors connected at level with the existing ones. With this strategy we managed to change the character of the place, which goes from being a building in an industrial area, to an office complex around some gardens. The fact that the new volume of offices is concentrated in a small tower allows not only to free up "green" space but to set the standard for how the bank's future building growth should be on the adjacent plot, also owned by Banco Sabadell. -
FAD Award
Finalist. Category: ArchitectureExtension of the Headquarters of Banc Sabadell