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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Rehabilitate to Revitalize: A lively neighborhood

  • Rehabilitate to Revitalize: A lively neighborhood
  • Rehabilitate to Revitalize: A lively neighborhood
  • Rehabilitate to Revitalize: A lively neighborhood
  • Rehabilitate to Revitalize: A lively neighborhood

This rehabilitation intervened in two buildings of great historical and social significance in the Vic Adoberies district, a key site of the tanning industry key site. The district was nearly lost due to late 20th-century urban planning, but a citizens’ movement halted its demolition, leading to its protection as an ethnological heritage site. The project prioritized preserving the site’s essence, highlighting ink stains, drying nails, and hatches connecting floors. Historical transformations were marked, and new interventions were carefully integrated. Discoveries included medieval pits, a polychrome-adorned dwelling, and the recovery of a lost Romanesque bridge arch. The building’s original tectonics have been preserved as much as possible by recovering, reusing, and restoring materials, while ensuring that new interventions respect each element. This approach has led to a wide range of solutions at all levels—including structural reinforcements, installations, and finishes—each tailored to the unique characteristics of the site.

Category

Built heritage

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2024

Author

Ajuntament de Vic
Elisenda Foradada Vilarrasa, Mireia Noguera Garcia, Miquel Autet Gubieras

Project team

Jordi Torrentó Solà, Draughtsman

External collaborators

Structural architect: Javier Monte Collado
Restorers: Patricia Amat i Eulàlia Ribó
Archaeologist: Anna Bach Gómez
Installation engineering: Esitec
Health and Safety Coordinator: Marta Serra Espaulella

City

Vic

Country

Spain

Website

www.vic.cat

Surface area sqm

1.341

Cost €

2.163.766,08

Client

Public
Vic City Council

Original Programme

Mixed Use

Programme

Mixed Use

© Photographer

Adrià Goula

Períod

s. XIX

Type of intervention

Restoration

Level of intervention

Total / Integral