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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Manna

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Originally built in the 1920s, Manna Sanatorium hosted tuberculosis patients who hoped to heal from the benefits of living within the idyllic arcadic woods, until the introduction of penicillin forced its abandonment. To revive the property we had to redefine the same concepts of hospitality & wellness that served its first life cycle. The secluded location and the emblematic architecture of a lost era inspired us to translate this vision into an optimistic, contemporary and respectful continuity of history, bridging a century-long gap without sacrificing its original identity with a series of surgical interventions. The hotel’s room capacity was extended on the footprint of a pre-existing auxiliary structure and the attic. Each of the 32 rooms is organized by a space timber grid reflected on floor patterns of terrazzo and marble, into areas of sleep, bathing, dressing etc. Key to the revival of Manna is the subtle palette reinvention. Extra care was given in maintaining, continuing and repurposing material stock sourced from nearby.

Category

Built heritage

Edition

7

Year

2023

Author

K-Studio
Dimitris Karampatakis

Monogon
Ioli Zavitsanou

Christine Stamouli

Project team

K-Studio: Giorgos Mitrogiorgis, Fay Mylona, Marina Leventaki, Vasilis Eleftheriadis, Argyris Mavronikolas, Glykeria Gkougkoudi, Ilias Pitsios, Antonis Tzortzis, Natassa Kallou, Natali Markantonatou

External collaborators

Branding Designer: MNP
Surveyor: Ioannis Charbilas
Structural Engineer: Niki Psilla
Mechanical Engineer: Gerasimos Vasilatos - Alexandra Zachopoulou & Partners
Lighting Designer: Eleftheria Deko and Associates
Sound Consultant: ALPHA Acoustiki Ltd
Kitchen Consultant: XENEX S.A.
Landscape Architects: H. Pangalou & Associates

City

Magouliana, Arcadia

Country

Greece

Surface area sqm

2.981,5

Cost €

-

Client

Private
Stratis Batayas

Original Programme

Health

Programme

Food & Accommodation

© Photographer

Ana Santl

Períod

Contemporary

Type of intervention

Restoration

Level of intervention

Partial