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	The most important buildings are those of Ciutadella Campus, which contains the largest library of the University (Dipòsit de les Aigües), Roger de Llúria, and Jaume I buildings.		The most important buildings are those of Ciutadella Campus, which contains the largest library of the University (Dipòsit de les Aigües), Roger de Llúria, and Jaume I buildings.

	===~~Ciutadella Campus~~===		===<nowiki/>===

	====Dipòsit de les Aigües====
	The Water Tower building was designed in 1874 by master of works ], who took charge of the whole of the old military garrison area. A then young student of architecture, ], did the static calculation of the tower and support elements. It was conceived as a traditional structure and the modern technique –at those times– of iron pillars was ruled out, given the huge loads that the tower had to bear together with its great height. The building dates from 1876, but it wasn’t until 1880 that it was inaugurated as a water tower, with the purpose of regulating the flow of water of Ciutadella park’s waterfall and watering its gardens. The building was listed in the ] book ''Classical Library Buildings of the World'', along with other 50 libraries.<ref></ref>

	The construction is a copy of a Roman prototype comprising a labyrinth of parallel arches of 14 metres in height, which cross over in a barrel vault and extend as if by mirror effect along its 65 metres of depth. After over a hundred years of different uses –as a municipal asylum, fire service store, changing room and garage of the Municipal Police force, justice archive...–it became UPF property in 1992.
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	The works to renovate the Water Tower, which was joined by subway with the Jaume I building, were begun in 1993. However, it wasn’t until 1999 that it started to work as the University Central Library. Today, three quarters of the building is in working order.

	The surface area of the plot is 4,558 m2, 4,320 m2 of which are occupied and a renovated surface area of 14,850 m2. The architects who undertook the work of renovating were Lluís Clotet and Ignacio Paricio.

	The Water Tower (Dipòsit de les Aigües) houses the Administration Building of the ], whose headquarters are located in this building (including ]'s private collection of books donated to the IUHJVV and the Pompeu Fabra University); and the documentation centre of the Central Library including, among others, the collections of the Haas Library, of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce.

	====Edifici Roger de Llúria====
	The Roger de Llúria building, like its neighbour the Jaume I building, was originally a military barracks. Analysis of four consecrated designs at the Jaume I barracks, plus the one corresponding to Roger de Llúria, lead us to believe that these undocumented designs are two intermediate designs between the first project, and that of colonel Rueda, of 1847, and some later adjustments, done in January 1879.

	In 1868, the old military garrison was demolished and four years later, the Ciutadella park was created. In compensation, the Ministry of War required the construction of the two military barracks, Jaume I and Roger de Llúria (which were finished by 1887) and some annexed military pavilions.

	The Ciutadella barracks were conceived on the basis of fixed modules, with quite elongated rectangular-shaped wings, for the ground floor and a further two storeys, with a pitched roof, organised around a porticoed rectangular patio. Over a century ago, the Ciutadella barracks introduced the characteristic shapes of the central Eixample in a suburban landscape.

	The renovation works on the Roger de Llúria building began in 1997. It was inaugurated in the year 2000, and initially, Law studies moved here. The Jaume I and Roger de Llúria buildings are currently host to social sciences and humanities.
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	The surface area of the Roger de Llúria building plot is 8,997 m2, with a constructed surface of 5,292 m2 and a renovated surface area of 26,957 m2. The team of MBM Arquitectos, SA, ], ] and ], was commissioned to perform the renovation. This building was awarded the 2001 Ciutat de Barcelona Prize for architecture and urban planning and was a finalist at the 44th edition of the ADI-FAD prizes for architecture and interior design.

	From outside, the Roger de Llúria building conserves the same rectangular proportions as the Jaume I building, but is different inside due to a ring-shaped floor that configures a central patio which is as wide as an Eixample street (80 metres). Within this area two new constructions were erected: one with a glass façade, where there are large lecture halls; and another that houses the lecturers’ offices and was built as a body suspended above the patio but is largely dysfunctional for lack of light. This latter construction has four floors and a façade which is crowned in wood and has large horizontal cuts in the windows. The patio is located at basement level and is covered by an aluminium, glass and iron cover, whose saw tooth structure allows natural light to be harnessed.

	At one end of the interior patio of the Roger de Llúria building we find the Memorial in homage to the lecturers who were removed from Catalan universities at the beginning of the ] dictatorship (1939-1940). With the creation of this memorial, UPF wished to pay homage to the nigh-on one hundred and twenty lecturers of Autonomous University of Barcelona (Pompeu Fabra among them) who, with the end of the ], were relieved of their teaching charges, which, for many of them, meant setting off on the long road to exile.

	The Memorial consists of a 4-metre wide circular glass box of 40 centimetres in height. The upper lid is made up of three glass laminates in the middle of which in circular form are written the names of those to whom homage is paid, and the lower cover is made of translucent glass. The names of the lecturers are successively lit up by a permanent ray of light which moves clockwise in a circular direction

	Roger de Llúria holds the following Faculties, Schools and Studies:
	Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Faculty of Law, Facultay of Humanities, University School of Business Studies, University School of Labour Relations, Political and Administration Sciences Studies, Labour Sciences Studies and the Department of Law.

	===Communication Campus===
	Ca l'Aranyó is a former factory in the ] district of ], currently hosts Pompeu Fabra University's Communication Campus. Part of the city's new '']'' technology and business facilities in and around ], it is located between ], ], ] and ]. It was officially open in January 2009.It hosts the ] and other centers.

	====History====
	The two buildings of the textile factory Ca l’Aranyó, which came into operation in 1877, were built by order of Claudi Arañó i Arañó, under the direction of Catalan master builder Joseph Marimón i Cot. One of them ("La Fàbrica"), which used to host the weaving machines, is a rectangular 30×24m² building on four levels—a ground floor topped with three storeys. The other one ("La Nau"), a longitudinal single-storey 80×9m² ship-like building with a lower ground floor, was used as a warehouse. Next to them, an imposing conical chimney made of bricks has also been preserved.

	Ca l’Aranyó is the only 19th century factory in which the metal structure imported from the UK was adapted to the Catalan vault, which was the traditional construction system during the last quarter of the nineteenth century in Catalonia. Furthermore, from an urban point of view, it was the first industrial project presented in the independent municipality of Sant Martí de Provençals that was conceived with the will to implant firmly in the alignments marked by Cerdà's 1859 Eixample Plan.

	In 1948, Xavier Arañó, on behalf of Arañó i Companyia, commissioned the architect Joaquin Vilaseca with the rehabilitation of the far righthand side of the ship, and the construction of a new floor. The factory closed in 1986 and the facilities began to deteriorate, a process which came to an end with the decision of the UPF to build their Communication Campus there. With the rehabilitation of the entire Ca l’Aranyó, the UPF has managed to restore this representative example of Catalan industrial heritage.

	===Mar Campus===
	Includes two main buildings: Edifici Doctor Aiguader (devoted to classes) and PRBB (devoted to research facilities).

	==Notable faculty==		==Notable faculty==

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Pompeu Fabra University
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Type	Public University
Established	1990
Rector	Jaume Casals
Address	Plaça de la Mercè, 10-12, 08002 Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Campus	Urban
Website	www.upf.edu
data from 2010

Pompeu Fabra University (Template:Lang-ca; Template:IPA-ca) is a university in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Founded in 1990, it is named after the Catalan philologist Pompeu Fabra. Currently (2009–10), the University offers 19 undergraduate degrees, 37 official masters, and 9 PhD programs, as well as around 60 UPF masters.

Organization

The UPF is located in three separate campuses, each associated to its own area of knowledge :

Social Sciences and Humanities (Ciutadella Campus)
Sciences and information technologies and communication (Communication Campus - Poblenou)
Biomedical sciences (Mar Campus)

Teaching is organized in seven faculties or schools: (Humanities, Health and Life Sciences, Economics, Political and Social Sciences, Communication, Law, Translation and Interpretation, and one polytechnic school. Research is organized in eight departments: (Economics and Business, Law, Political and Social Sciences, Humanities, Experimental Sciences and Health, Information Technologies and Communication, Communication, Translation, Language Sciences) and three university research institutes (University Institute of Culture, Jaume Vicens i Vives University Institute of History, University Institute for Applied Linguistics). The University also has four affiliated centers (International Trade Business School -ESCI-, Elisava School of Design, University School of Business Studies of the Maresme -EUM-), Mar University School of Nursing -EUIM-, two interuniversity postgraduate platforms (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals -IBEI- and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics -Barcelona GSE-), and its own Continuing Education Institute.

Research

The UPF has three science parks:

The UPF Social Sciences and Humanities Research Park (Social sciences and humanities)
The Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) (Biomedicine)
The Barcelona Media Park (PBM) (Information and communication sciences and technologies)

UPF has also been participating in a set of institutions and centers specializing in teaching, research and transfer that have their own legal personality and which comprise the UPF Group, andw hich often exist in collaboration with other institutions and universities Thus, in the field of research and transfer, plus the three science parks include the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM) - Hospital del Mar, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) (CSIC-UPF), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Institute of Territorial Studies (IET), the Research Centre for International Economics (CREI) and Fundació Barcelona Media (FBM).

Governance

Enric Argullol served as rector from the founding until June 2001, followed by M. Rosa Virós i Galtier (2001-2005) and Josep Joan Moreso (2005-2013). The current rector is Jaume Casals.

Campuses

The University has buildings scattered across Barcelona, mainly between les Rambles and Marina Avenue. The most important buildings are those of Ciutadella Campus, which contains the largest library of the University (Dipòsit de les Aigües), Roger de Llúria, and Jaume I buildings.

Notable faculty

Rafael Argullol, novelist
Josep Joan Moreso, legal scholar
Vicenç Navarro, sociologist
Xavier Sala-i-Martin, economist
Eugenio Trías Sagnier, philosopher
Teun A. van Dijk, linguist
Xavier Serra, music technology scholar
Xavier Roig, student

References

External links

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