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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Carner Barcelona Perfumery

Carner Barcelona Perfumery

In the center of the city and the Eixample District, on the commercial axis of Paseo de Gracia, the new corporate headquarters of Carner Barcelona is designed. This location is part of the historical, artistic, and architectural heritage of the city of Barcelona protected with level C (Special Eixample Complex). Located in a building that preserves its original and typical construction elements of Catalan architecture. The sobriety and authenticity of the designed spaces allow the values and philosophy of the brand to emerge. It is contextualized in the Mediterranean and local crafts. Carner Barcelona Perfumery focuses on the search for a timeless project that links history and tradition with cosmopolitan contemporaneity. The signs and wounds that the existing mixed brick and stone walls present show us the passage of time. These "wrinkles" remain intact allowing an interesting reading of them in contrast to the care in the detail and the impeccable finishes of the furniture.

Author

Taller Jofre Roca
Jofre Roca Calaf

Collaborators

Collaborators: Anna Villarroya and Monika Jokiel

Edition

5

Year

2020

City

Barcelona

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

148

Cost €

200.000

Client

Private

© Photographer

Adrià Goula