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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2022 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2022 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:
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The park is the result of the purchase by Barcelona City Council of the urbanisation of a luxury neighborhood designed by Gaudí and promoted by Eusebi Güell that never came to be.
What can currently be visited are the landscaping of sixty undeveloped plots at the foot of Mount Pelada, with magnificent views of Barcelona, and the common parts of the project: the paths, access, market, central square.
Gaudí urbanises the mountain with streets that follow the minimum sloping lines and four bridges built with material from the clearing of the plots. The retaining porch walls inside which can be circulated, covered with local stone, are exceptional. Both the bridges and the porch are crowned by unique columns crowned in turn by planters where agaves are planted.
The heart of the urbanisation had to be an elevated square that instead of a perimeter railing has a corrugated bench designed and built with prefabricated concrete by his collaborator Josep Maria Jujol, finished with some breakwaters that are worth discovering in detail.
Below the square is a hypostyle room that was to house the market, with twisted columns to work with as little effort as possible. The columns are empty and below them is a water tank that should cover the entire park. Some are removed in order to make room for larger stops and are replaced by medallions, also designed by Jujol.
The ensemble is accessed by an imperial staircase that has, on the axis of symmetry, a spectacular dragon made of trencadís that has become one of Barcelona’s landmarks. The fence that guards the park at the entrance, finished with two asymmetrical pavilions, is equally remarkable. One of the pavilions currently houses the Gaudí Museum.
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Park Güell
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet
The park is the result of the purchase by Barcelona City Council of the urbanisation of a luxury neighborhood designed by Gaudí and promoted by Eusebi Güell that never came to be. What can currently be visited are the landscaping of sixty undeveloped plots at the foot of Mount Pelada, with magnificent views of Barcelona, and the common parts of the project: the paths, access, market, central square. Gaudí urbanises the mountain with streets that follow the minimum sloping lines and four bridges built with material from the clearing of the plots. The retaining porch walls inside which can be circulated, covered with local stone, are exceptional. Both the bridges and the porch are crowned by unique columns crowned in turn by planters where agaves are planted. The heart of the urbanisation had to be an elevated square that instead of a perimeter railing has a corrugated bench designed and built with prefabricated concrete by his collaborator Josep Maria Jujol, finished with some breakwaters that are worth discovering in detail. Below the square is a hypostyle room that was to house the market, with twisted columns to work with as little effort as possible. The columns are empty and below them is a water tank that should cover the entire park. Some are removed in order to make room for larger stops and are replaced by medallions, also designed by Jujol. The ensemble is accessed by an imperial staircase that has, on the axis of symmetry, a spectacular dragon made of trencadís that has become one of Barcelona’s landmarks. The fence that guards the park at the entrance, finished with two asymmetrical pavilions, is equally remarkable. One of the pavilions currently houses the Gaudí Museum. -
Intervention in Park Güell
Martínez Lapeña-Torres Arquitectos, José Antonio Martínez Lapeña, Elías Torres Tur
Restauración de la Sala Hipóstila, la plaza y el banco perimetral. El Park Güell fue una operación inmobiliaria de 60 casas para la burguesía barcelonesa que fracasó y que en el año 1922 el ayuntamiento compró y lo convirtió en parque público. El parque nunca ha visto cambiar su arquitectura. Apenas, desde los años veinte, algunas reparaciones y retoques puntuales. La vegetación sí ha cambiado y crecido y ya no se ofrece a la vista aquella imagen rala y pedregosa de pendientes y barrancos; vegetación inmóvil y permanente, podada en piedra. Un jardín arquitectónico y abstracto; naturaleza rocosa, montaña pelada esculpida, cantera de vegetación pétrea. La Sala Hipóstila es un templo a la griega de capiteles dóricos exagerados con un techo abollado de cupulitas y que soporta una plaza de tierra con un ribete-banco ondulado; una cenefa de acroteras de crestas de olas con crustáceos incrustados que aproximan el mar del horizonte a la montaña pelada. Obras de restauración de la Sala Hipóstila y de la plaza. Reparación de los elementos estructurales en mal estado; impermeabilización de la cubierta, y construcción de un sistema de desagüe eficaz; reconstrucción de revestimientos de piedra artificial de fustes de columnas, capiteles y arquitrabe; sustitución de azulejos de dinteles, cúpulas y banco perimetral. -
FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Architecture
Intervention in Park GüellMartínez Lapeña-Torres Arquitectos, José Antonio Martínez Lapeña, Elías Torres Tur
Premio Década
Award-Winner / Winner
Intervention in Park GüellMartínez Lapeña-Torres Arquitectos, José Antonio Martínez Lapeña, Elías Torres Tur
Audiovisual
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Passeig virtual per la Casa del Guarda del Park Güell
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