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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

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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 Ornaque

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús Quintero

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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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Going up Bertrán Street, two years later and 100 metres further up, I found a program with a similar approach, a different geometry (9 x 30m) and the experience of the first intervention.
The result is conditioned by a new way of solving the entrance atrium and its relationship with the street.

The entrance to the building is understood as a journey through a glazed gallery of premises and a tunnel of maple wood forming the lobby to finally emerge at an intermediate level on an interior landscaped courtyard covered by a large skylight. From here, a staircase is developed, the lateral service galleries and walkways that allow access to the six duplex homes from which the roof is recovered for private use. From the same interior patio, you can access the studio on the garden floor, creating a garden and a pergola overlooking the tennis club.

The structure takes on a 3--2-1-2--3 rhythm, which makes it possible to perfectly overcome the problems posed by the external courtyard façades, those of the construction of the houses’ stairs and those of the central courtyard.

The splitting of the ground floor, three metres back from the street, is solved by supporting it from the upper slab, which allows the general open structure to be maintained. Consequently, the retraction of the mezzanine floor plan and the displacement of the lateral porticoes allow the central pillar of the façade to be slender, which allows the binding or curvature to be almost eliminated.

Some details on materials and techniques used are:

-Reticular slabs with concrete bearing structure.
-Appliqués with stone slabs on the street façade.
- Interior façades with Cotegran coating with horizontal joints.
-Interior metal staircase with sections made up of lacquered wood counters and marble slabs.
- South cream marble floors.
-Glazing on the street façade and at the top of the commercial premises with 8mm glass.
-Spotlights for reflection in the entrance atrium.
-The lobby tunnel with maple-applied counters and brass joints on a wooden rib structure.
-Skylight formed by profiles with Plexi-type translucent tables forming a camera.
-Awnings and interior blinds with helios-creen material.
-Black oxidised aluminum closures.
- Pergola-garden in rustic wood treated with copper salts and a pavement made of railway sleepers on a bed of sand.
-Garden consisting of cypress trees and grass, bougainvillea on the south wall and climbing vines on the bottom and north wall as well as an arch of white roses in the pergola on a background of acacias.

Author: Carlos Ferrater i Lambarri

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