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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Listed house located at the intersection of two narrow streets inside the Roman enclosure of Barcelona. It is likely that it was the quarter of a larger dwelling in the old Jewish quarter. The façades on the streets had been restored in the 60s and could not be modified.
Its four floors above street level have been remodeled, reused and added from the 14th to 19th centuries, and have withstood an occasional earthquake. The basic idea of the renovation is to recover the presence of part of the original courtyard, with the demolition of added slabs that hid it, and to consolidate the interior structure. An elevator next to a staircase serves the offices of a new functional organisation.
The new divisions of the interiors are placed diagonally with respect to the stone walls, as if they were furniture. The twin Gothic windows have been separated from the interior and displayed as if they were objects in a giant display case while the outbuildings they illuminate are distanced from the building in front, located two metres away.
A steel staircase that connects the ground floor with the first one tries to recall the staircases of medieval palaces and rescues an imaginary presence of the original staircase of the house. Being separated from the walls, the staircase seems to float in the courtyard even though it is tied with steel bars to the floor and vertical walls.
The studio, with a triangular plan, rises on a corner of the roof, from the same family as the constructions of the other neighbouring roofs and from which the Gothic bell towers of the neighbourhood can be seen.
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Casa Sant Domènec del Call 6
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Mas House
Martínez Lapeña-Torres Arquitectos, José Antonio Martínez Lapeña, Elías Torres Tur
Listed house located at the intersection of two narrow streets inside the Roman enclosure of Barcelona. It is likely that it was the quarter of a larger dwelling in the old Jewish quarter. The façades on the streets had been restored in the 60s and could not be modified. Its four floors above street level have been remodeled, reused and added from the 14th to 19th centuries, and have withstood an occasional earthquake. The basic idea of the renovation is to recover the presence of part of the original courtyard, with the demolition of added slabs that hid it, and to consolidate the interior structure. An elevator next to a staircase serves the offices of a new functional organisation. The new divisions of the interiors are placed diagonally with respect to the stone walls, as if they were furniture. The twin Gothic windows have been separated from the interior and displayed as if they were objects in a giant display case while the outbuildings they illuminate are distanced from the building in front, located two metres away. A steel staircase that connects the ground floor with the first one tries to recall the staircases of medieval palaces and rescues an imaginary presence of the original staircase of the house. Being separated from the walls, the staircase seems to float in the courtyard even though it is tied with steel bars to the floor and vertical walls. The studio, with a triangular plan, rises on a corner of the roof, from the same family as the constructions of the other neighbouring roofs and from which the Gothic bell towers of the neighbourhood can be seen.