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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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.
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2019-2024 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2024 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:
2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús QuinteroWith the support of:
Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de CulturaCollaborating Entities:
ArquinFADFundació Mies van der Rohe
Fundación DOCOMOMO Ibérico
Arxiu Mas
Basílica de la Sagrada Família
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona
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A high voltage line forced the definition of a protection zone parallel to one of the streets and displaced the built volume so that from this restriction a generous semi-public space was organised which was treated as a vestibule of the two important vertical accesses to the homes. Its proximity and openness to the street and its visual relationship with a large avenue in front of it gave it greater breadth and a better connection with the city.
The project can be seen as an effort to adapt the simple model of the block to a complex plot of a Mediterranean city in which the corners are fundamental. The relationship between the components, the small gestures in the headers and some change in the width of the blocks allowed the construction to help define the surrounding streets, which were not orthogonal to each other.
It was a work that continued with the concern for the generous and dignified dimensions of the common accesses, and in which the desire to offer maximum freedom in the use of the homes appeared for the first time, conceived as rectangular spaces in plan, free of any accident structural or facilities and with gaps in the façade that did not predetermine any use and allowed them all.
The project aims to make the most out of the advantages of the block as a housing complex, due to its economy and constructive rationality. The ground floor leaves an open interior space that relates to an existing avenue on the other side of the street, and access to the stairs takes place from this space. The block respects the alignments of the four perimeter streets, and the internal distribution of the floor plan resolves the contradictions produced by the irregularity of the traces. The access corridor to the homes is moved to the attic floor to allow them to have more frontage on the street. As a result, the exterior façades are neutral planes that do not differentiate the individuality of the homes, while in the interior courtyard an area of relationship and mobility is created induced by the vertical circulations and the volumetric animation of the roofs.
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Perspectiva general de l'Illa de Cases Puig i Cadafalch
© Fons Clotet, Tusquets, Paricio / Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Perspectiva de l'exterior de l'Illa de Cases Puig i Cadafalch.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Perspectiva de la façana posterior de l'Illa de Cases Puig i Cadafalch.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Perspectiva de l'exterior de l'Illa de Cases Puig i Cadafalch.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Perspectiva de l'interior de l'Illa de Cases Puig i Cadafalch.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Perspectiva de l'interior de l'Illa de Cases Puig i Cadafalch.
Arxiu Històric del COAC
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Perspectiva del nucli de comunicacions de l'Illa de Cases Puig i Cadafalch.
Arxiu Històric del COAC