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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
Directors of the COAC Digital Archive
About us
Architects' Association of Catalonia:
Àrea de CulturaDirectors:
2019-2020 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2020 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:
2019-2020 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero:
Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Design & Development:
Nubilum Edittioclose
Axonometria seccionada de les Cases Bricall 1 i 2.
- Author:
- Cristian Cirici i Alomar
- Pep Bonet Bertran
- Studio PER
- Date:
- 1968 - 1975
- Type:
- Drawing
- Held by:
- Arxiu Històric del COAC
Memory
La casa es va projectar com a segona residència, i es va construir sobre el que havia estat l'hort d'una casa modernista del front de mar.
En el seu moment, va ser una de les primeres edificacions en un carrer a mig urbanitzar que s'anava formant en els límits dels horts i eixides de les cases del front de mar. Precisament la manca d'unes preexistències ambientals definides, en un carrer que ha evolucionat d'una forma caòtica en la que es juxtaposen blocs de fins a set pisos amb habitatges unifamiliars de planta i pis, ens van portar a plantejar la casa com una construcció separada dels veïns
i orientada envers el jardí interior d'illa.
Els diferents espais del programa funcional, es situen a diferentes cotes, que en certa manera són els replans d'escala de la comunicació vertical. Les escales prenen tal protagonisme que, fins el sota de l'escala de servei que puja al terrat, forma un complex sostre del menjador que es situa sota d'ella. Uns anys més tard, vam tenir l'oportunitat de fer créixer el volum de la casa, amb l'addició de dos apartaments dúplex, amb terrasses i una piscina, formant un nou conjunt dissenyat amb el mateix llenguatge formal.
