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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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2019-2023 Aureli Mora i Omar OrnaqueDocumental Commission:
2019-2023 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:
2019-2023 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 project deals with the intervention on a sports facilities built in 1976, with a swimming pool added ten years later. The pre-existing set presented serious dysfunctions from a traffic and communications point of view, both internally and with the elements of the environment. The initial project proposed the construction of a multi-sports hall next to the pre-existing facilities, but the final intervention acts on all the elements of the old hall, by means of the addition of new architectural elements or the recovery of other elements that were obsolete from a functional point of view. A new building that acts as a transport interchange is constructed. The intervention takes into account two basic considerations: the relationship of the new sports complex with its immediate environment, and the articulation and coherence of the different functional components that make it up.
The new Bonaigua sports centre is a project that originally won a competition called in 1996 by the Sant Just Desvern City Council, in Barcelona. Our proposal, far from being in the new location that was suggested, abandoning the existing outdated complex, risks being placed on top of it in order to solve the accessibility of the complex. In this way, the old complex is also recovered with a building that works as a transport interchange, which connects with the environment, with the promenade and the future park, and joins the different pieces together with a new elevator and ramps. This connection gives meaning to the current situation of the building as the future gate of the park, marked by the two large trusses that appear on the roof.
Far from a desire for mimicry, fragmentation and integration, our proposal has sought, with the density, scale and resounding nature of the intervention, to reclassify a chaotic environment, a borderline place where the urban world mixes with the rural one.
The building has been designed with a structural and constructive logic conditioned by bad terrain: the roof is supported by two large external trusses that allow us to reduce the external volume to the strictly useful. Supported by 4 pillars that tread carefully on the existing facilities, the structure of the track turns 90º and takes advantage of the existing foundation at one end while the other is given over to a truss that supports the new bleachers and encloses the changing rooms.
Each element, structure, installation and enclosure are assembled in the work and left visible in order to mark their independence. The materials used emphasise the definition of a dense interior. Polycarbonate diffuses the light on the track, corridors and changing rooms to build a dense fluid atmosphere that fills the great void of the multi-sports hall. The dark blue enamelled ingot absorbs the light providing depth and reflections.
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Remodelling and Extension of La Bonaigua Sports Complex
Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos, Jaime Coll López, Judith Leclerc
The project deals with the intervention on a sports facilities built in 1976, with a swimming pool added ten years later. The pre-existing set presented serious dysfunctions from a traffic and communications point of view, both internally and with the elements of the environment. The initial project proposed the construction of a multi-sports hall next to the pre-existing facilities, but the final intervention acts on all the elements of the old hall, by means of the addition of new architectural elements or the recovery of other elements that were obsolete from a functional point of view. A new building that acts as a transport interchange is constructed. The intervention takes into account two basic considerations: the relationship of the new sports complex with its immediate environment, and the articulation and coherence of the different functional components that make it up. -
FAD Award
Finalist. Category: Architecture
Remodelling and Extension of La Bonaigua Sports ComplexEU Mies Award
NominatedRemodelling and Extension of La Bonaigua Sports Complex