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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Grand Palais

  • Grand Palais
  • Grand Palais
  • Grand Palais
  • Grand Palais

The project restored the Grand Palais’ original spatial coherence, re-established its grand perspectives, improved visitor circulation, and enhanced technical performance. Public accessibility has been significantly improved, with better facilities, including numerous elevators and a new reception area. The project has increased overall accessibility for the public, but also its capacity. The completion of the first phase of the renovation, just in time for the Olympic Games, has reinstated the Grand Palais as a premier cultural venue, blending its historic grandeur with much-needed contemporary functionality.

Category

Built heritage

Edition

7
Finalist

Year

2024

Author

Chatillon Architectes
François Chatillon



Project team

-

External collaborators

DAL, Ingerop, Acoustique Vivié & Associés, 8’18”

City

Paris

Country

France

Surface area sqm

77.000

Cost €

330.000.000

Client

Public
Grand Palais RMN

Original Programme

Mixed Use

Programme

Culture

© Photographer

Laurent Kronental, Antoine Mercusot

Períod

Beaux-Arts

Type of intervention

Renovation

Level of intervention

Total / Integral