AHI Architectural Heritage Intervention

“Contributing to enhancing our heritage, as the way forward for 21 st Century architecture is our raison d’être; to emphasize a diverse, rich vision that necessarily complements the intervention is our mission, and achieving it with reflexive and purposeful efforts is the challenge”.

This project, founded in, and directed since, 2011 by Ramon Calonge, Oriol Cusidó, Marc Manzano and Jordi Portal, architects and members of the Group of Architects for the Defence and Intervention in Architectural Heritage (AADIPA), has, through the years become a platform that includes four actions that are both independent and transversal.
 
The European Award, a biennial event that brings together and showcases the multiple approaches of intervention in Europe.

The International Biennial, a framework that serves to compare and gain closer insight of quality interventions in architectural heritage in non-European countries.

The digital Archive, a live and open window that provides a panoramic view of interventions in the history of our surroundings.

The Forum, a meeting place where you can participate in on-going debates about the main preoccupations and lines of thought about interventions in architectural heritage in Europe.

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Palace of Temple

Palace of Temple

The convent, college and church of the Order of Montesa in Valencia form a historic group popularly known as the Temple due to they belonged to the ancient Templar Order. It was built after an earthquake which ravaged the previous monastery, between 1761 and 1770 by King Carlos III. It has been decided to design an accessible route formed by light wooden footbridges that improve the observation of remains. By continuing with the conservation of singular elements, it can remark that all the grills and carpentry have been recovered. In addition, the project has recovered the original windows holes. All existing the stony elements of the façades been treated to return them to their original state. The restoration of the original timber floors’ structure is an important point in the integral rehabilitation strategies of the building due to help to maintain the original interiors. For this purpose, a wide task of structural consolidation is done and elements have been replaced by new of laminated timber.

Author

MF Arquitectos
Manuel Fonseca Gallego

Collaborators

Alejandro Domínguez Rueda

Edition

4

Year

2018

City

Valencia

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

11.270

Cost €

11.921.340

Client

Public

© Photographer

Manuel Fonseca Gallego