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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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:
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ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
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Basílica de la Sagrada Família
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
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The single-family house in Llinars del Vallès is located in an urbanisation of single-family homes on the outskirts of this city in the region of El Vallès, in the province of Barcelona.
The plot is the sum of two units of 500 m2 each, so that the house will be a bit larger than the average ones built in the urbanisation. On the other hand, this plot of 1,000 m2 is located at the foot of a small hill so that the land is 2.5-3 m above street level and, at the same time, it connects in a straight line with the urban centre and visually with a mountainous, wooded and extensive landscape.
This direction of arrival, which at the same time the slope is linked to the topography of the land, coincides with the East orientation, when in reality the humid climatology of the region advises orienting the house to the south. On the other hand, the geometry of the plot, with a circular sector, does not contain any suggestion about the implementation of orthogonal axes to refer to the plan.
So the project begins not by fixing a limit or an organised system, but by fixing a centre from which the house spreads out to occupy the plot in a subordinate way.
This centre is immediately identified with a study-library, a space to work during breaks and the rest of the house is articulated (from this centre) around a porch that allows domestic activities in the open air. A piece that identifies and differentiates these second residences, from the first ones linked to the interior space and in the city.
Porch and study will be the elements that originate the house and give rise to a process of work and study that links these two pieces together and covers the "soft" parts of the project: bedrooms, kitchen, dining room, etc.
The instrument that will be used to establish this relationship will be the cover. During the process, successive models are generated that aim to define this relationship. Polarity manifests itself vertically, but also very quickly horizontally: in the south-west the living room and main room, and in the north-west the kitchen and children's and grandchildren's bedrooms. Between both arms there is the porch.
The porch must be extensive, but at the same time it must have natural light through an abatement of part of the roof, which in another step becomes empty.
The artificiality of the system to light the porch does not manage to make a "place" in the geometry of the roof and finally the solution comes to introduce a cut in the roof when it approaches the study, which gives us protection from the sun but abundant natural light from the North that enters through this uncovered floor, next to the centre of the house.
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