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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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In most of the so-called garden cities, of that romantic idea of living in a great palace isolated from the rest of the world and surrounded by nature, only its ridiculous caricature remains: small constructions surrounded by narrow strips a few metres wide and separated from the street and the neighbours by mandatory low and recessed fences that do not offer any type of privacy.
In the case we are dealing with, the plot was small and triangular, a senseless cutout born of an unfortunate plot division.
The Roman house, the Arab house, resting on the boundaries of the property, closed to the outside except in the entrance hall and open to one or several inner courtyards, intimate and silent, were intelligent compact building types, economic and which also defined precise and qualified public spaces. But all the regulations prevent this proven and admired model.
The proposal for this house was born from the struggle between these opposites, it was born from trying to create a comfortable building despite having to be governed by rules that forced a model of occupying the territory so irrationally. The plan ended up adopting a filamentary shape, a succession of spaces connected by a long corridor that caused a disproportionate façade in relation to the built surface, and all in order to be able to define two open courtyards towards the south, to which all the dependencies faced through generous openings.
The other façades were opaque and defined two long, narrow strips. The one facing the neighbour was used to access the surface parking lot and the one facing the street was given to the town and a public bank was built in it.
Admirable clients.
The project proposes to address the demand for nature, peace and isolation of the client, with the characteristics of a triangular plot, the result of a previous parcel segregation. The house adopts the geometry of the triangle in its general arrangement and in the smallest details and opens in three arms that allow the maximum release of the garden surface and create two patios with well-differentiated uses. The house is completely closed to the street, and all openings lead to these inner courtyards. The parents' patio serves the living room, the playroom and the parents' bedroom. The two children's bedrooms overlook the second patio. The kitchen, with its service patio, is the only element connected to the outside, at the apex of the triangle. Clotet and Tusquets exploit the contradictory aspects of architecture to find unusual solutions linked to atypical ways of life.
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Planta d'estudi de la Casa Penina.
© Fons Clotet, Tusquets, Paricio / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Axonometria d'estudi de l'exterior de la Casa Penina.
© Fons Clotet, Tusquets, Paricio / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Perspectiva de l'exterior de la Casa Penina.
© Fons Clotet, Tusquets, Paricio / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Perspectiva de l'accés del carrer de la Casa Penina.
© Fons Clotet, Tusquets, Paricio / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Perspectiva de la façana posterior de la Casa Penina.
© Fons Clotet, Tusquets, Paricio / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Alçat de l'exterior de la Casa Penina.
© Fons Clotet, Tusquets, Paricio / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Axonometria de l'interior de la Casa Penina.
© Fons Clotet, Tusquets, Paricio / Arxiu Històric del COAC