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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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

  • Baró de Viver School Group

  • Baró de Viver School Group

  • Baró de Viver School Group

  • Baró de Viver School Group

  • Baró de Viver School Group

  • Baró de Viver School Group

  • Baró de Viver School Group

  • Baró de Viver School Group

  • Baró de Viver School Group

  • Baró de Viver School Group

  • Baró de Viver School Group

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This project involves the construction of a school complex with two sections, each with five classrooms, for boys and girls separately. In addition to these ten classrooms, an assembly hall was designed to also be used as a gymnasium in an intermediate area, which could be used interchangeably by both sections. There is also a nursery next to the girls' section. Each section consists of a hall, an administrative area (headmaster's office, secretary's office, staff room, changing rooms and toilets), and five classrooms, all of which have an extension to the outside with a porch, which allows for easy expansion of the classroom area, as well as comfortable outdoor teaching. In this way, the school allows for outdoor teaching. The nursery consists of a single room, to which a small waiting hall, a toilet and a kitchenette for preparing meals and baby food and for the hygienic care of the children are attached. Given that the plot of land available was sufficiently large, it was decided from the outset to design the project on a single floor. This layout has the enormous advantages of eliminating stairs and allowing immediate and direct contact from the classrooms to the garden. However, it has the disadvantage of the abundance of space allocated to horizontal circulation, which, although it could have been partly avoided by eliminating corridors and using intermediate halls for more educational purposes, is a difficult and complicated solution when there are so many classrooms and, as in this case, a specific orientation is required. The entire structure of the building is based on a grid of reinforced concrete columns and beams with exposed brick walls. The roof is a succession of Catalan-style flat roofs. In general, the concrete has been left exposed in its original state, as it comes out of the formwork. Apart from concrete and brick, only glazed ceramic tiles have been used to cover the parapets. The flooring is white hydraulic mosaic with black speckles, while the exterior flooring is concrete (‘pedregalet’). The steps are also made of concrete. The exterior enclosure alternates between prefabricated concrete elements and brick walls. Above the exterior areas of the classrooms is a porch with a metal structure and a ‘bruch’ roof. Outdoor circulation from each hall to the assembly hall and from the entrances to each of the halls takes place under a porch, also with a metal structure and a corrugated fibre cement roof. With the exception of two small green flowerbeds, the landscaping is reserved exclusively for strategically placed groups of trees to provide significant areas of shade. The visual separation between the boys' and girls' areas has been achieved with a sculpture by Moisès Villèlia on a green flowerbed behind the glass window of the girls' section lobby. It is an extraordinarily interesting sculpture based on vertical fibre cement tube elements.

Source: Fons MBM / Arxiu Històric del COAC

This project is a continuation of the experience previously developed in Terrassa’s three school groups. The difference is that, in this case, thanks to the extension of the site, the school group has been able to be developed on a single floor. This disposition allows to eliminate the stairs and to establish a direct contact from the classrooms with the garden.

The programme is developed in two completely independent sections, one with five classrooms for boys and the other one with five classrooms for girls. Each section has its own playground, which is accessed directly from all classrooms. As a filter, each classroom has a heather porch and an outside space to hold classes in the open air. The school is also equipped with an assembly room that can be converted into a gym and a nursery school.

The entire structure of the building is a reinforced concrete grid with exposed brick walls. The landscaping basically consists of masses of trees strategically placed to provide shade and privacy. The visual separation between boys and girls is produced by a sculpture by Moisès Villèlia based on vertical fiber cement elements.

Author: Xavier Llobet Ribeiro

Source: DOCOMOMO Ibérico

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    Perspectiva Exterior del Grup Escolar Baró de Viver

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