Walden 7 - Arquitectura Catalana .Cat (2025)

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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Historical Archive which, thanks to its documental richness, provides a large amount of valuable –and in some cases unpublished– graphic documentation.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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Memory

With a lower budget than that usually used for social housing, and with atypical financing instruments, Ricard Bofill and Taller de Arquitectura manage to carry out a set of homes that start from the criticism of the existing city and propose architectural and existential alternatives. These are 18 towers that curve as they rise until they touch the neighbouring towers, leaving in the centre large, interconnected voids that encourage the relationship between the different homes. The set shows on the outside facings covered with red ceramic and with very small openings. The inner courtyards, on the other hand, are treated with very bright colours. The types of housing try numerous combinations starting from a square module, which can be doubled or form groups of four, establishing new possibilities of interrelation between the inhabitants of each unit.

Author: Maurici Pla

Source: Catalunya : guia d'arquitectura moderna, 1880-2007

The Ciudad en el Espacio project, which failed in Madrid, managed to materialise on an industrial site on the outskirts of Barcelona previously occupied by a cement factory. With a significantly lower budget than the social housing of the time, Walden-7 stands as a monument and a point of reference in the road network that surrounds it. The building is a vertical labyrinth made up of seven interior courtyards that communicate on all levels through horizontal and vertical circulations. The homes, resulting from the union of 30 m2 square modules, have different sizes: from the study of a single module to the housing of four modules, located on one floor or on two levels.

Programme set of 446 homes, public spaces, meeting rooms, games rooms, bars and shops on the ground floor, and two swimming pools on the roofs.

Author: RBTA - Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

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    Ricardo Bofill Leví

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    Rutes 36

    De Bofill a Corberó: indústria i modernisme

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    Apunts 8

    Cap a un habitar cooperatiu

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