Figueres, Alt Empordà, Catalonia: the Alt Empordà delegation of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC) will begin a cycle of talks on Friday, 5 June, centred on five community housing experiences.
The first session of the Architectural Syntheses series starts at 7pm and will feature the doctoral thesis Five Communities by architect Jaume Farreny Morancho. His research examines five forms of community living in the Terres de Lleida, based on five projects by architect Ramon Maria Puig developed between 1965 and 1980.
The study uses drawings to explain cohabitation strategies, with attention to landscape, integration into agricultural or urban settings, and the grouping of domestic units into communities. It also looks at how each case combines its own scale, programme and typology with shared social dynamics and the use of public space.
The research relies mainly on Puig’s documentary archive. Original drawings, plans and written project records are used to reconstruct his ideas and work, while direct experience of the buildings adds a sensory and spatial dimension to the analysis.
That process produces five cartographies, all developed with the same graphic syntax, where drawn and written notes are combined into a method for architectural investigation and representation.
The series continues on 11 June at 7pm at the COAC Garrotxa-Ripollès Delegation, where Félix de la Fuente will present his doctoral thesis Comparative Architecture. It ends on 18 June at 7pm at the COAC Girona Demarcation with Anna Bach’s thesis, Alison and Peter Smithson, Axel Bruchhäuser and the Hexenhaus. For more on local coverage, see our news tag and the COAC website.
