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.
 
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Ancient Town Hall

  • Ancient Town Hall
  • Ancient Town Hall
  • Ancient Town Hall
  • Ancient Town Hall

Fuentes de Andalucía, located in the Seville countryside, in the Guadalquivir valley, stands out for its monumental wealth and its historical connection with agriculture. The extension integrates perfectly with the existing neoclassical structure, also rehabilitated, surrounded by protected churches and convents. Following the Islamic urban layout, the new building closes off from the street and opens up to the interior; more open and public on the access levels, and with the work spaces concentrated on the upper floors. Much of the materiality is based on natural lime mortars with plant traces on the facades, evoking this landscape relationship noted. The Intangible Cultural Heritage is also enhanced with a new public pathway from the street to the roofs, connecting with the surrounding protected heritage and the tradition of bell towers and viewpoints, elevated spaces for the control of lands and crops which has historically been their primary livelihood.

Category

Built heritage

Edition

7

Year

2022

Author

Laguillo Arquitectura
Ignacio Laguillo Diaz

Project team

Harald Schönegger, José Carlos Oliva Garrido, Ignacio Olivares Pont, Alvaro Valverde Castilla, Jorge Rodríguez Chinchilla

External collaborators

Quantity Surveyor: Rosalino Daza Fernandez
Civil Engineer: Enrique Cabrera Martín
Industrial Engineer: Miguel Sibón Roldán
Landscape: Jaime García García

City

Fuentes de Andalucía (Seville)

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

1.630

Cost €

1.162.000

Client

Public
Consejería de Fomento, Articulación del Territorio y Vivienda. Junta de Andalucía + Ayuntamiento de Fuentes de Andalucía

Original Programme

Government

Programme

Government

© Photographer

Fernando Alda

Períod

Neoclassicism

Type of intervention

Addition

Level of intervention

Total / Integral