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.
 
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Vapor Cortès. Prodis 1923

  • Vapor Cortès. Prodis 1923
  • Vapor Cortès. Prodis 1923
  • Vapor Cortès. Prodis 1923
  • Vapor Cortès. Prodis 1923

The new headquarters of Prodis is located in old industrial buildings made up of the traditional structure of load-bearing walls of ceramic brick and wooden trusses. The first strategy is the recovery of the central street between warehouses with a new passage that will become a new street in the city. The different spaces of the centre are organized along the two warehouses, combining main uses such as workshops, with more complementary spaces. The need to subdivide spaces within a huge space and to reinforce the existing trusses allows an organization of the spaces based on these structural reinforcements. New transversal beams in the existing trusses reduce their span and allow for their preservation. These intersections between new and old create patterns with the same constructive logic as the original, and at the same time they place the most closed programs. A sequence of spaces is created that allow us to understand the large size of the warehouses, but at the same time managing to create more domestic corners.

Category

Built heritage

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2024

Author

Harquitectes
Xavier Ros Majó, David Lorente Ibáñez, Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Roger Tudó Galí

Project team

Maya Torres, Miquel Arias, Itziar González, Albert Ferraz, Andrea Arasa, Sara Ferran, Mariona Dalmau, Maria Azcárate

External collaborators

Structure: DSM Arquitectes
Istallations: M7 Enginyers
Quantity surveyor: Carles Bou
Environmental consulting: Societat Orgànica
Acoustics: MC Acústica
Planning: Territoris XLM
Topography: Geomètric

City

Terrassa

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

3.842,2

Cost €

5.879.721,35

Client

Private
Prodiscapacitats Fundació Privada Terrassenca (PRODIS)

Original Programme

Industrial

Programme

Social-Civic

© Photographer

Adrià Goula

Períod

Industrial

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Total / Integral