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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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The Maria Regordosa Park is in Els Quatre Cantons district, in the area of the town of Ripollet located on the right bank of the Ripoll river, is a park that already existed previously and that presented some deficiencies: excess of vegetation, lack of a perimeter sidewalk on Carrer de Tarragona, poor communication between the park, its urban environment and the Primary Healthcare Center (CAP) and pavements, inadequate lighting and furniture.
The park is at the level of the buildings that front it on the north side, which is a lower level than the perimeter streets located on the south, west and east sides. The transition between the central space of the park and the perimeter streets was through slopes with a steep slope. The park, in relation to its surroundings, was really enclosed.
The intervention sought to open the park as a space towards the context that surrounds it, thus creating a new perception of this space. The unevenness between the park and Carrer de Tarragona has been reduced by carrying out careful topography work. The level of the base of the slope has been raised so that it forms a plane with a slope of 1' 1.5% transverse to the hall pavement; in this way the perimeter slopes have been softened and the park has stopped being trapped.
With the work, the perimeter spaces for pedestrians have been improved through new and wide sidewalks with trees, both on Carrer de Tarragona and Carretera de Terrassa and Carrer de la Verge de Montserrat. The different accesses to the park, located in the corners, have been improved, most of which are now adapted with ramps, as well as the communication between the city and the CAP through the park, through a system of integrated stairs and ramps on the new slopes with grass, and an adapted pedestrian crossing with traffic lights. The existing underpass under Carrer de Tarragona, which connects this park with the one next to the CAP, has also been maintained.
The excess vegetation has been solved by removing the one that was in bad condition. A new and varied planting of trees has been done in order to achieve a flowering of the park at different times of the year. Cottonwood, lindens and mimosas on the slopes and tipuanas in the lawn, and alignment banana trees on the perimeter sidewalks. The slopes have been planted with grass and verbena (Verbena repens) in different colours (red, blue, pink, lilac), and circular patches of verbena have also been incorporated in the central hall space to qualify this space and enrich the variety of flowering vegetation in the new park.
The lighting of the park and the roads has been renewed. The old street furniture has been replaced with a higher quality one and new children's games have been placed in a circular enclosure surrounded by a wooden fence. A new sewer network has also been built for the park.
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