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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.

Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
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2019-2023 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental Commission:

2019-2023 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Francesc Rafat Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Anton Pàmies Mercè Bosch Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

External Collaborators:

2019-2023 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús Quintero

With the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

Collaborating Entities:

ArquinFAD

 

Fundació 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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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.

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El centre social- cultural El Pinar de Rubí s’assenta sobre un solar allargat de 60 metres de longitud orientat est-oest que té una forta pendent transversal del 52%. La façana interior propera al nus de la carretera C-1413- a està situada a la cota +181. La façana oposada sobre un altiplà a cota + 189 és el final d’una zona boscosa que forma part del Catàleg del Patrimoni Arqueològic i Natural de Rubí. L’edifici està en un 75% semi enterrat contra un mur de contenció que suporta el vessant de la muntanya.

El projecte, que ocupa tota la parcel·la disponible, té en planta i en secció forma de papallona. A l’ala esquerra, que té dues plantes, hi ha un auditori i sobre aquest una guarderia per als nens del barri. A l’ala dreta de tres plantes s’hi troben, un petit gimnàs, una planta d’aulari per adults, la zona d’exposicions i el local social.

L’edifici mostra davant de la carretera una imatge de sòlid petri construït a base de morters amb pedres projectades de diferents tons grisos, xapes metàl·liques perforades i grecades de color cendra. Per altra banda la façana que dona al bosc, d’una sola planta d’alçada, és un cos transparent i permeable. Els pilars que suporten la coberta, en l’espai d’alçada generosa del centre social, estan pintats tot simulant els arbres de l’exterior.

Visualment, entre les dues ales de l’edifici, en colors blancs i amb l’ajuda d’un petit mur de cortina de tres plantes, es troba el punt de permeabilitat entre les cotes inferior i superior del terreny i que és l’enllaç interior entre la porta de baix i la de dalt. Aquest centre buit està ocupat per un doble espai per a les escales i els ascensors, funciona com una connexió entre els blocs dret i esquerre i reprodueix en imatge i funcionament el petit pas, com un penya-segat que existia al lloc en l’estat previ a la construcció del centre.

Author: Roldán+Berengué Arquitectes

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