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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Royal Butchers of the 16th century

Royal Butchers of the 16th century

In a very small space (163,50 m2) and plot bounded by three medians converges a wide spectrum of rich heritage. On one side in the horizontal plane underlying archaeological remains of an ancient structure of Iberian wells to which a system is superimposed Roman sewers. On the other hand in the vertical plane emerging elements of a fortified medieval tower system of the city as well as the remains of the Roman wall. And finally the bearing wall structure of a building that suffered the ravages of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and still remained standing. Under these assumptions we consider rehabilitate a space to take out each of these historical elements and was sewn into a clean, sober and simple architecture, an architecture that will container heritage. The project will be built therefore traces a route between the past has been left to each create a new space with a dual use: a new top floor using file and at the bottom the of exhibition hall.

Author

Pablo Millán Arquitectura
Pablo Millán

Collaborators

Structural: Mario Cruz Febrero
Archaeologists: Pablo Jesús Casado Millán and Rafael Antonio Saco Montilla

Edition

3

Year

2014

City

Porcuna

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

163,50

Cost €

316.812,27

Client

Public

© Photographer

Javier Callejas