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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O Fieiro House

O Fieiro House

The intervention to rehabilitate the stable and transform it into a home is based on the general concept of taking advantage of its system of load-bearing walls that work by compression and using it as a container and support for a new structure of wooden slabs working by traction. The constructive and structural system is resolved with three materials, wood, steel and truck straps, in collaboration with the original stone. Firstly, mechanical openings are made in the masonry walls at different heights into which three metal section sleepers are inserted. The pinewood slabs are then embedded in the masonry wall over the metal sleepers and fixed in place with wooden wedges. The slabs bridge a distance up to 5.20 meters between supports. The planks are loose, without gluing or tongue. To give them stability, there are tie-down straps that wrap them, these are fixed on the vertical stone walls by means of an anchoring system with stainless steel rings, making the whole system work by traction.

Author

Estudio Arturo Franco
Arturo Franco

Collaborators

Building engineer: Diego Castellanos
Other architects: Patricia Herráez, Mario Azorín

Edition

5
Shortlisted

Year

2020

City

Mazaricos, La Coruña

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

200

Cost €

45.000

Client

Private

© Photographer

Alfonso Quiroga