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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Uhrovec castle - Outhouse

  • Uhrovec castle - Outhouse
  • Uhrovec castle - Outhouse
  • Uhrovec castle - Outhouse
  • Uhrovec castle - Outhouse

The basis of the preparation and project work was a precise survey focused on the complex identification of the building's historical values. The evaluation of the results took place in interdisciplinary teams of heritage experts, researchers, architects and suppliers of professional and restoration work. Emphasis was focused primarily on the exact identification of the original structures, materials and construction methods. Thanks to many preserved period details, marks and finds, it was possible to transform the ruin into a functional building again. The restoration of the castle represents social direction towards the values of the European cultural heritage. An exemplary element of project implementation is its participatory nature, when teams of volunteers and professionals who were diverse in terms of status, culture and education worked together during the whole process.

Category

Built heritage

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2021

Author

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Martin Varga, Martin Kvitkovský

Slovak Technical University - Faculty of Architecture and Design - Institute of History and Theory of restoration of monuments
Pavol Pauliny

Project team

-

External collaborators

Miroslav Matejka, Peter Šimčík

City

Uhrovské Podhradie

Country

Slovakia

Surface area sqm

165,15

Cost €

324.042

Client

Public
Občianske združenie Hrad Uhrovec n.o.

Original Programme

Castle

Programme

Mixed Use

© Photographer

Peter ČINTALAN/DYNAMEET STUDIO

Períod

Renaissance

Type of intervention

Restoration

Level of intervention

Total / Integral