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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

Documental Commission:

2019-2024 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Eduard Callís Francesc Rafat Pau Albert Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Mercè Bosch Jaume Farreny Anton Pàmies Juan Manuel Zaguirre Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2024 Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel

With the support of:

Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura

Collaborating Entities:

ArquinFAD

 

Fundació Mies van der Rohe

 

Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico

 

Basílica de la Sagrada Família

 

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

 

Fomento

 

AMB

 

EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona

 

IEFC

 

Fundació Domènench Montaner.

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In this building, two of the areas of architecture and construction which seem to be preferred in the coming years meet: the rehabilitation of the existing heritage and the use of elements that make a bridge with the construction industry, both of the structural elements and perimeter closures.

In this case, with the added complexity of inserting an Early Childhood and Primary Education Centre teaching programme into the container formed by one of the warehouses of the AEG industry that is included in the catalogue of heritage buildings in Terrassa.

The construction of the AEG factory complex in Terrassa was carried out on land given by the municipality in the early 1940s. In 1970, the AEG factory reached its peak with 1900 workers. 1981 is considered the beginning of the decline in its production until its final closure in mid-2005.

It is composed of tall prismatic volumes topped by a roof in the shape of a saw tooth. A small stone moulding separates this prism from the skylights. The structure is made up of three large single-span reinforced concrete porticoes. This powerful structure frees up a large open and well-lit interior space.

The interior space is defined through the vertical accesses over the central space. It is a succession of open stairs that, located one after the other, tighten the central space.

It is a space that moves in an ascending saw pattern that connects two successive double spaces located between the ground floor and the first floor (building B5) and the first floor and the second floor (building B3), open to each other and which allows a volume that would remain unused due to lighting and ventilation difficulties. This area becomes the central piece of the entire rehabilitation, achieving a space with characteristics that can only be found in interventions of this type.

Author: Joan Pascual - Ramon Ausió Arquitectes

The project wants to emphasise the recovery of the old AEG building for the new school use. Therefore, it proposes a rigorous respect for the formal, constructive and material characteristics between the existing parts and those of new construction.

The cladding materials for the façades will therefore be exposed brick in the rehabilitation and renovation of the façades of the B3 and B5 buildings and exposed brick façades, precast concrete panels and transparent glass and UGlass in the extended parts.

The dissonance between both parts will allow the eye to distinguish the general concept of the intervention, giving the complex two types of perception, texture and light. The inexpensive original materials will contrast with the contemporary translucent facings, signaling the entrance and creating an incandescent lamp at night.

The project proposes intensive use of the two heritage buildings, locating most of the general and Primary Education spaces there. On the opposite side of the plot there is the Children's Area, with independent access for parents from the back street.

Hall. The entire programme located in the rehabilitated buildings is located around a large interior patio-atrium located in the central corridor of these buildings. It is a space that moves in an ascending saw pattern that connects two successive double spaces located between the ground floor and the first floor (building B5) and the first floor and the second floor (building B3), open to each other and which allows a volume that would remain unused due to lighting and ventilation difficulties. This area becomes the central piece of the entire rehabilitation, achieving a space with characteristics that can only be found in interventions of this type.

Author: Joan Pascual Argenté

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  1. Nova Electra School

    Ramon Ausió Mateu, Joan Pascual Argenté

    Nova Electra School

    In this building, two of the areas of architecture and construction which seem to be preferred in the coming years meet: the rehabilitation of the existing heritage and the use of elements that make a bridge with the construction industry, both of the structural elements and perimeter closures. In this case, with the added complexity of inserting an Early Childhood and Primary Education Centre teaching programme into the container formed by one of the warehouses of the AEG industry that is included in the catalogue of heritage buildings in Terrassa. The construction of the AEG factory complex in Terrassa was carried out on land given by the municipality in the early 1940s. In 1970, the AEG factory reached its peak with 1900 workers. 1981 is considered the beginning of the decline in its production until its final closure in mid-2005. It is composed of tall prismatic volumes topped by a roof in the shape of a saw tooth. A small stone moulding separates this prism from the skylights. The structure is made up of three large single-span reinforced concrete porticoes. This powerful structure frees up a large open and well-lit interior space. The interior space is defined through the vertical accesses over the central space. It is a succession of open stairs that, located one after the other, tighten the central space. It is a space that moves in an ascending saw pattern that connects two successive double spaces located between the ground floor and the first floor (building B5) and the first floor and the second floor (building B3), open to each other and which allows a volume that would remain unused due to lighting and ventilation difficulties. This area becomes the central piece of the entire rehabilitation, achieving a space with characteristics that can only be found in interventions of this type.
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    Award-Winner / Winner. Category: Béns Immobles

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