About
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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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 of the COAC Digital Archive
About us
Architects' Association of Catalonia:
Àrea de CulturaDirectors:
2019-2020 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2020 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Francesc Rafat Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Anton Pàmies Mercè Bosch Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Aureli Mora Omar OrnaqueExternal Collaborators:
2019-2020 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Maria Jesús QuinteroCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Design & Development:
Nubilum Edittio
Memory
L’edifici es troba en un solar romanent del recinte del parc de Diagonal Mar, de grans dimensions i de forma irregular, sotmès a unes condicions urbanístiques molt estrictes i que no oferien gaire marge de maniobra. Clotet i Paricio decideixen prescindir de qualsevol enfocament compositiu i opten per ajustar-se fidelment a les pautes urbanístiques per mitjà d’uns volums que, en façana, són tractats amb la repetició d’una mateixa peça. Aquest element repetitiu consta d’una peça d’alumini i un plafó, en el cas dels paraments opacs situats davant dels pilars. El conjunt es munta sobre uns premarcs formats per un entramat de tub galvanitzat de 120 x 40 mm, que queda ancorat als forjats per mitjà de metxes. Les persianes són de làmines orientables d’alumini perfilat, muntades sobre uns marcs d’alumini extrudit que corren per una guia doble del mateix material. Clotet i Paricio desplacen l’interès per la composició cap al detall constructiu sistemàtic i creen un organisme que només adquirirà escala i dimensions per mitjà de l’activitat dels usuaris.
