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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

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Project by:

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Directors:

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 Fernando Marzá Moisés Puente Aureli Mora Omar Ornaque

Collaborators:

2019-2026 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester 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.

Design & Development:

edittio Nubilum
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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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  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

  • PIHER Granollers Factory

Memory

The manufacturing hall is a parallelepiped measuring 46 m × 46 m × 3 m, suspended 5 m above the ground over a free-plan level without any fixed enclosure. The fundamental idea is thus the following: a completely closed container, formed by a grid of iron columns spaced 9 m × 9 m, which, being elevated above the floor, defines beneath it a much more flexible container space for access, services, shipping warehouses, and offices.
The upper space, as mentioned, is entirely enclosed, without natural ventilation or lighting, with only occasional sections of the façade operable for machinery access. On the flat roof —considered as a continuous structural floor, providing uniform load resistance— the air-conditioning plant and other technical installations are located. Ducts connecting these installations to the container space run externally, prioritising the roof and vertical enclosures, and converge in a lower accessible service chamber that separates the two levels.
The overall complex therefore has the characteristics of a gigantic machine. It is not a traditional building superficially dressed with pseudo-industrial aesthetics; rather, it is a system of artificial, regulable conditions and a set of basic elements of a production process, integrated in a general-purpose, uniform, and multifunctional space without a single dominant specialty. That said —accepting the superficial industrial reference— this character is emphasised by the treatment of exterior elements: façades and pipes clad in painted iron sheeting with a bright silver finish.
The functional and aesthetic relationship between the two fundamental compositional elements —offices with services and access, and manufacturing halls— is clear and simple. The lower floor is free-plan, and the enclosures can vary according to needs, provided they do not exceed the rectangle of the upper manufacturing floor. Necessary connections between specific sectors of the lower and upper floors (personnel access, goods transfer, office control, etc.) are extremely easy and direct.
The general form of the building is determined more by the site’s urban constraints, functional requirements, and landscape scale considerations than by a detailed analysis of the manufacturing process. (A second phase is planned, which would clarify this reference to the surroundings.)

Source: Fons MBM / Arxiu Històric del COAC

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