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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Pleonastic is Fantastic

Pleonastic is Fantastic

The project involves the restoration of a Venetian barchessa located in a private courtyard in Lonigo historic center, and its conversion into a collectible design gallery. The tension between old and new find its realization in the pleonastic stair – an object seemingly suspended in balance within the space. What is pleonastic is not strictly necessary. The stair wasn’t necessary in the first place; neither would be the supporting strut. The stair is once a rising pathway, once a scenographic background. It is once embraced by the space and becomes part of it, it is once an intrusive addition. The self-supporting stair rises out of a new concrete ground without interfering with the beauty and fragility of the wooden slab and the load-bearing walls. The meticulous restoration involved the search and recovery of salvaged materials from similar sites to integrate the original roof. The handcrafted rusty steel window fixtures, along with the restoration of the original wooden floor, complete the conservation project.

Author

AMAA
Marcello Galiotto
Alessandra Rampazzo

Collaborators

Team: Francesca Fasiol

Edition

5
Shortlisted

Year

2020

City

Lonigo, Vicenza

Country

Italy

Surface area sqm

280

Cost €

80.000

Client

Private

© Photographer

Simone Bossi