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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2026 Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque

Documental Commission:

2019-2026 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 Gemma Ferré Inés de Rivera Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2026 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Marianela Pla Maria Jesús Quintero Lucía M. Villodres Montse Viu

External Collaborators:

2019-2026 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.

 

ETSAB

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  1. La Sedeta

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    La Sedeta

  2. La Sedeta Civic Centre and School

    Ricard Fayos, Pere Giol, Ferran Llistosella Vidal, Xavier Llistosella Vidal

    La Sedeta Civic Centre and School

    La Sedeta is located within the Gràcia district block bounded by Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret, Carrer de Sicília, Carrer de Nàpols, and Carrer de la Indústria. The complex presents three exterior façades facing Sant Antoni Maria Claret, Indústria, and Sicília streets, with the principal entrance located on Carrer de Sicília. It also includes three interior façades overlooking the block courtyard bounded by Passatge Llavallol. This courtyard is divided into two areas: a public park and a school playground. Originally constructed as a textile factory, the complex was converted in 1982 for use as a civic centre, primary and secondary school. It is composed of a linear volume following the alignments of the surrounding streets. This elongated structure is organised into different architectural typologies corresponding to its various functions. Facing Carrer de la Indústria and the chamfered corner stands the tallest volume, rising to four storeys. Its exposed brick façades adopt an industrial aesthetic in which voids predominate over solid surfaces. The elevation is articulated through a double façade plane: the outermost expresses the structural system through segmental arches resting on broad pilasters, while the recessed inner plane fills the spaces generated by the primary structure. Within this recessed plane, the openings are arranged along vertical axes following the regular structural grid and repeating the segmental arch motif. The upper two floors are separated by projecting cornices. Access is provided from the chamfered corner through a centrally positioned opening emphasised by a semicircular arch. This section of the complex now accommodates the secondary school. Facing Carrer de Sicília is another volume attached to the first, though lower in height, comprising three more modest storeys. Originally, this was a largely symmetrical body formed by two wings separated by a central section serving as the entrance. Its façades are composed in a manner similar to those of the taller block, differing only at the uppermost level, where the openings are divided into two smaller windows. Today, the left-hand wing has been replaced by a new building of similar volume. This intervention was carried out with considerable sensitivity, employing the same façade materials and maintaining the original proportions of the openings. The original wing houses the civic centre, while the new volume accommodates the school. Facing Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret stands the street-aligned façade of the former block that once enclosed the perimeter of the site and was demolished during the conversion project. This façade, reinforced and underpinned by exposed brick buttress walls triangular in plan, now acts as an enclosure to the interior courtyard. The courtyard itself is defined by these architectural volumes and by a lightweight fence facing Passatge Llavallol. It is divided into two distinct zones: the north-western half, associated with the civic centre, is publicly accessible and organised as two terraces connected by an amphitheatre, while the remaining half is reserved for school use. All roofs are pitched in double slopes and clad in traditional curved terracotta tiles, with rainwater gutters concealed behind the perimeter parapets. Particularly noteworthy is the serrated cornice along Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret, distinguished by the careful craftsmanship of its exposed brickwork. By 1915, the factory employed more than six hundred workers. Industrial activity ceased in 1953, and between 1982 and 1985 the complex began its transformation into a civic centre and subsequently a school.
  3. FAD Award

    Shortlisted. Category: Architecture

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