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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Marechal 50

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This project consists of an intervention in a classified complex that includes both a classified property and a classified garden. This set of conditions determine the importance of this rehabilitation project, both in terms of the building individually and in terms of the qualification of the broader urban context in which it is inserted that greatly characterizes it. The memory of this area of the city is inseparable from the house that is located on an elevated plot of land at the intersection of Avenida da Boavista and Avenida Marechal Gomes da Costa. The intervention sought to reestablish the modernism of the original project while simultaneously demonstrating the building´s adaptability to the new intended use of services. The rehabilitated building is complemented by a contemporary extension in exposed white concrete, which sought, through its design, to fully adhere to the principles of the 1940´s project and to reinforce the connection to the urban dynamics of the block.

Category

Built heritage

Edition

7

Year

2024

Author

Ana Coelho Arq
Ana Coelho

Project team

Sara Sampaio, Ilka Alda

External collaborators

Newton Consultores de Engenharia

City

Porto

Country

Portugal

Surface area sqm

1.730

Cost €

-

Client

Private
Pcinvest

Original Programme

Single House

Programme

Office

© Photographer

Irina Boersma César Machado

Períod

Modernism

Type of intervention

Restoration

Level of intervention

Total / Integral