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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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About us
Project by:
Created by:
Directors:
2019-2026Aureli Mora i Omar Ornaque
Documental Commission:
2019-2026 Ramon FauraCarolina B. GarciaEduard CallísFrancesc RafatPau Albert Antoni López DaufíJoan FalguerasMercè BoschJaume FarrenyAnton PàmiesJuan Manuel ZaguirreJosep FerrandoFernando MarzáMoisés PuenteAureli MoraOmar Ornaque
Collaborators:
2019-2026Lluis AndreuSergi BallesterMaria Jesús QuinteroLucía M. VillodresMontse Viu
External Collaborators:
2019-2026Helena CepedaInès 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
We kindly invite you to help us improve the dissemination of Catalan architecture through this space. Here you can propose works and provide or amend information on authors, photographers and their work, along with adding comments. The Documentary Commission will analyze all data.
Please do only fill in the fields you deem necessary to add or amend the information.
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.
The economic premises of the project required maximum use of the plot, arranging on each floor the greatest possible number of dwellings, each with a surface area of between 60 and 70 square metres. It was therefore necessary to create a projecting volume extending almost along the entire façade line of the site. Given the 45-degree angle of the chamfered corner and the need to maintain parallel structural bays within the dwellings, the cantilevered volume at the chamfer advances with supports set at 45 degrees. This purely constructive requirement is precisely what generates the full expressive potential of the reinforced concrete on the ground floor. On this concrete base, which forms the ground floor and the semi-basement levels, rest the exposed brick walls, tending to be almost entirely solid on the more northerly façade and more open on the southern one. The building is crowned by a tiled roof that makes full use of the building potential permitted by Barcelona’s municipal regulations. It clearly corresponds to the floor plan structure and avoids the familiar volumetric disorder caused by set-back attic and penthouse levels. Only brick, concrete and ceramics are used on the façade. Brick appears in the solid wall planes; concrete in the ground-floor supports and roof channels; and glazed ceramic tiles, in traditional Catalan qualities and patterns, are used to clad elements without their own specific finish: the soffits of the overhangs, the extreme bands of the floor slabs, window and balcony parapets, and so on. The balcony railings consist of iron handrails made using the traditional cold-twisted ‘tirabuzón’ system. This system, beyond any decorative value it may have, has the advantage of increasing the moment of inertia about the weak axis of the handrail, thereby providing sufficient stiffness in both directions despite the use of small sections. The housings of the roller shutter boxes are simple aprons of pink artificial granite, supported on the wall by projecting lugs made of the same material. In the interior vestibules and stairwells, the brickwork has been left exposed and finished with a glossy varnish. Entrance halls and stair landings are paved in white marble. Lighting is provided by simple opaline glass globes and miner-style lamps with protective grilles and glass, recessed into the walls.
The economic premises of the project required maximum use of the plot, arranging on each floor the greatest possible number of dwellings, each with a surface area of between 60 and 70 square metres. It was therefore necessary to create a projecting volume extending almost along the entire façade line of the site. Given the 45-degree angle of the chamfered corner and the need to maintain parallel structural bays within the dwellings, the cantilevered volume at the chamfer advances with supports set at 45 degrees. This purely constructive requirement is precisely what generates the full expressive potential of the reinforced concrete on the ground floor.
On this concrete base, which forms the ground floor and the semi-basement levels, rest the exposed brick walls, tending to be almost entirely solid on the more northerly façade and more open on the southern one. The building is crowned by a tiled roof that makes full use of the building potential permitted by Barcelona’s municipal regulations. It clearly corresponds to the floor plan structure and avoids the familiar volumetric disorder caused by set-back attic and penthouse levels.
Only brick, concrete and ceramics are used on the façade. Brick appears in the solid wall planes; concrete in the ground-floor supports and roof channels; and glazed ceramic tiles, in traditional Catalan qualities and patterns, are used to clad elements without their own specific finish: the soffits of the overhangs, the extreme bands of the floor slabs, window and balcony parapets, and so on. The balcony railings consist of iron handrails made using the traditional cold-twisted ‘tirabuzón’ system. This system, beyond any decorative value it may have, has the advantage of increasing the moment of inertia about the weak axis of the handrail, thereby providing sufficient stiffness in both directions despite the use of small sections.
The housings of the roller shutter boxes are simple aprons of pink artificial granite, supported on the wall by projecting lugs made of the same material. In the interior vestibules and stairwells, the brickwork has been left exposed and finished with a glossy varnish. Entrance halls and stair landings are paved in white marble. Lighting is provided by simple opaline glass globes and miner-style lamps with protective grilles and glass, recessed into the walls.
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