Recordatori: Marcatge CE de reacció al foc dels cables elèctrics, obligatori a partir de l’1 de juliol
En conseqüència, tots els projectes que es visin (o sol·licitin autorització administrativa en el cas de projectes sense visat obligatori) a partir de l’1 de juliol hauran de considerar el marcatge CE i la nova classificació en la prescripció dels cables de les instal∙lacions elèctriques que tinguin requisits de comportament al foc.
En aquest sentit, l’OCT ha adequat els documents d’ajuda de justificació del REBT adaptant-los a aquesta nova normativa, incorporant la prestació al foc dels cables elèctrics. Podeu trobar els documents al cercador documental de l'OCT.
Per a més informació, consulta el document informatiu elaborat per l’OCT.
Accediu a les fitxes per a la justificació del REBT (per a edificis d’habitatges).
The ultimate recognition for Catalan architecture: RCR Arquitectes, winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2017
The jury highlighted their deep bond with Olot, 'resisting the call of the metropolis in favour of remaining closely connected to their roots', creating 'buildings and places that are both local and universal at the same time'. They also lauded their approach to projects through the history, natural topography, customs and cultures of the place.
RCR Arquitectes is a team with a vocation for building who have developed a unique oeuvre in the field of construction, industrial design, landscaping and land management. Works such as the Els Tossols-Basil bathing pavilion, the Els Tossols athletic track, the Parc de Pedra Tosca and various interventions in the restaurant Les Cols, all located in Olot; the La Lira cultural centre in Ripoll; the Bell-Lloc winery in La Fosca; and the Soulages Museum in Rodez, France, are all austere structures that have little impact on the surrounding landscape, which has often been recovered, upgraded, cleaned and brought to its maximum expressive potential. The work of RCR Arquitectes also stands out for their skilful mastery of steel, a material they have used to integrate all the elements of a construction project, from the structure itself to the furniture, the enclosures and the installations, with results that combine tremendous austerity with a surreal beauty.
Based in Olot, where they have lived and worked since the practice’s creation in the 1980s, this recognition of RCR Arquitectes is the first time a Pritzker Prize has been awarded to Catalan architecture. The architecture of RCR Arquitectes, who trained at the El Vallès School of Architecture, is deeply rooted in the architecture of Catalonia, which is finally receiving the ultimate accolade after exerting a strong influence on international architecture for many decades and forging a legacy that has consistently given rise to electrifying architectural movements every few years, from Catalan Art Nouveau to the Olympic movement to the School of Barcelona and including figures such as Gaudí, Sert, Coderch, Bofill and Bohigas. RCR Arquitectes and, though them, Catalan architecture, are to be congratulated.
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Media:
"RCR, el primer Pritzker català: "Cal tenir arrels i cal tenir ales", Llàtzer Moix, La Vanguardia
"La força universal dels olotins RCR guanya el Premi Pritzker", Antoni Ribas, Diari Ara
"El Premio Pritzker 2017 recae en el estudio catalán de arquitectura RCR", Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, El País
"Premi a una arquitectura extraordinària", Jordi Badia, Diari Ara
"D'Olot al món!, les reaccions al Premi Pritzker", Diari Ara
"El estudio catalán RCR Arquitectes gana el premio Pritzker 2017", Vanessa Graell, El Mundo
"Un estudi català guanya els Nobel de l'Arquitectura", Declaracions de Lluís Comerón, degà del COAC, RAC 1
"L'estudi olotí RCR fa història", Telenotícies TV3
"Coneixem els arquitectes de l'estudi RCR, d'Olot, premiats amb el Pritzker", Els Matins, TV3
Entrevista a Carme Pigem, La Ventana, Cadena Ser
OFFICE KGDVS fills the auditorium for the first conference in the ‘Europe, Europe’ cycle
OFFICE KGDVS, founded in 2002 and established as one of the most original voices on the European scene, used the exhibition ‘Everything architecture’ as their theme (open until 12 February at the gallery Arc en Ciel in Bordeaux). The exhibition presents an overview of their work based on the interaction established between models, drawings and collages produced by the practice and the work of different artists.
During the lecture, the architects presented a total of seven designs – specifically the projects 56, 90, 117, 119, 126, 176 – from a body of work that encompasses more than 190 references. Behind this nomenclature, which classifies projects chronologically and tends to situate them on equal ground, there are 15 years of professional activity encompassing projects of all kinds that have been built worldwide.
During the first part of the lecture, OFFICE presented four projects with different typologies and scales, all located in Belgium: a weekend house in Merchtem, on the outskirts of Brussels; the expansion of a public school in Leuven; a single-family home project known as ‘Der Bau’ in la Garenne, Brussels; and an agro-industrial building that serves as a drying hall in Herselt.
The second part was devoted to presenting three international projects on different scales and in different contexts. First off was a cultural centre in the old city of Bahrain, which blends formally and constructively with its context while eschewing imitation. Then they showed the new headquarters for the Radio Télévision Suisse, still in the design phase, located on the university campus in Lausanne next to the Sanaa building, with which it blends almost seamlessly. Finally, they presented a single-family home in Matarranya, part of the Solo Houses project, for which a number of internationally renowned architects have been asked to design houses in a privileged environment with complete design freedom.
Whether you are already familiar with OFFICE’s work or you have yet to discover it, we recommend that you watch the video of the lecture, where you will discover architecture with a serious theoretical intensity. Rooted in rigour, strength and pure forms, it tends to generate non-hierarchical spaces where it seems like anything can happen.
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Social aspects, quality and precision in the winning entries of the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA
The awards were presented by Jusèp Boya, General Director of Archives, Libraries, Museums and Heritage from the Culture Department of the Catalan Government; Daniel Mòdol, Councillor for Architecture, Urban Landscape and Heritage of Barcelona City Council; Albert Civit, Director of INCASOL (Catalan Land Institute); and Lluís Comerón, Dean of the Architects' Association of Catalonia.
The biennial award, directed by Ramon Calonge, Oriol Cusidó, Marc Manzano and Jordi Portal, and organized by the COAC and the AADIPA with the collaboration of the Department of Culture, has maintained a high level of international participation, with Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Belgium being the best-represented countries.
The jury, which praised the overall quality and rigour of the almost 200 entries, short-listed 18 projects from which it selected four winners and two special mentions. The selected projects in each category were:
· Category A. Intervention in Built Heritage:
· Conversion of the Bernardas Convent, by Eduardo Souto de Moura (Tavira, Portugal)
· Culinary school in the old abattoir, by Sol89 (Cadiz, Spain)
· Restoration of the Palace and Gardens of San Telmo as the Presidential Headquarters of the Regional Government of Andalusia, by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra (Seville, Spain)
· Restoration of the 18th-century Es Pi des Català Tower, by Marià Castellò (Formentera, Spain)
· Refurbishment of the Church of Santa María de Vilanova de la Barca, by AleaOlea Architecture and Landscape (Lleida, Spain)
· Conversion of three pumping stations of the Skjern River, by Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter (Skjern, Denmark)
From the short-listed entries, the jury decided to grant the award to the conversion project of the Bernardas Convent in Tavira, by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. The decision was taken after taking into consideration the special difficulty involved in achieving high architectural quality in a private development, creating a holiday apartment complex without undermining the architectural and heritage qualities of the original convent.
Furthermore, the jury decided to award a special mention to the restoration of the Es Pi des Català Tower in Formentera, by Marià Castellò, due to the precision, simplicity and efficacy of the intervention. Thus, the jury has recognised smaller-scale heritage interventions with the goal of striking a balance in the award.
· Category B. Outdoor Spaces:
· Caramoniña Allotments, by Abalo Alonso Architects (A Coruña, Spain)
· Restoration of the irrigation system of the thermal gardens of Caldes de Montbui, by Cíclica + Cavaa (Caldes de Montbui, Spain)
· Pedra da Rá Lookout Point, by Carlos Seoane (A Coruña, Spain)
· Restoration of the Caminito del Rey Walkway, by Luis Machuca Santa-Cruz (Malaga, Spain)
The jury decided to grant the award in Category B to the Caramoniña allotments project, by Abalo Alonso Architects. This intervention preserves and showcases an element of social heritage: the productive landscape. The project involves the masterful handling of just a handful of elements through the adoption of a subtle and interwoven approach, magnificently outlining a place and facilitating new routes that keep it active and provide it with an identity that is both new and ancient.
· Category C. Urban Planning:
· Special plan for the heritage protection of the ancient village of Sant Andreu del Palomar, by Joan Casadevall Serra (Barcelona, Spain)
· Cultural Termites, by Aleksandra Ajzenhamer and Vito Boševski (Zagreb, Croatia)
· Master Plan of the Hospital Real, by Javier Gallego Roca (Granada, Spain)
· Programmatic and urban study for the Citröen building, by MS-A and Wessel de Jonge (Brussels, Belgium)
The winning project in Category C was the Special plan for the heritage protection of the ancient village of Sant Andreu del Palomar, by Joan Casadevall. The jury highlighted the historical and social approach adopted in the project, along with its sensitivity to the demands of local residents. The project takes into account the morphological structure of the district, its green spaces, typological diversity and the configuration of the street on the basis of its façades.
In this same category, the jury considered that the Programmatic and urban study for the Citröen building, by the Belgian team MS-A / Wessel De Jonge deserved a special mention for tackling the reuse of industrial heritage and for its recognition of modern architecture, inserting a new programme committed to a mixture of uses and interventions that engage with the existing building.
· Category D. Dissemination:
· VerSus: Lessons of vernacular heritage in sustainable architecture, by the ESG / Escola Superior Gallaecia and Partners. Coordinated by Mariana Correia (Portugal)
· Glèises en Encurnanclinc de la Vall d’Aran, by Josep Lluís i Ginovart, Agustí Costa Jover, Sergio Coll Pla and Mónica López Piquer (Vall d’Aran, Spain)
· A Dissemination Strategy. “Peral” New Submarine Museum, by José Manuel Chacón Bulnes, Juan Ignacio Chacón Bulnes and Diego Quevedo Carmona (Cartagena, Spain)
· Visitor information at the Amatller House Museum, by the Private Foundation Amatller Institute of Hispanic Art (Barcelona, Spain)
The winning entry was VerSus: Lessons of vernacular heritage in sustainable architecture, by the ESG / Escola Superior Gallaecia and Partners (Portugal). The jury considered that the project brought together scientific study and a practical call for forms of construction which, while being traditional and heritage-based, are truly sustainable and contemporary.