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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Donostia City Hall´s West Wing

Donostia City Hall´s West Wing

The current Donostia City Council building was built in 1887. After a few years in operation, the building was left unused and abandoned until 1947 when the City Council transferred the municipal offices and turned the casino into the new headquarters of the city hall. The building currently has the highest degree of protection and has been declared a Grade A Qualified Cultural Asset. In 2017, the City Council decided to undertake the adaptation and modernization works of the West Wing of the building. The intervention encompasses all the floors of this wing (basement, main, first undercover and roof). The objectives of the project have consisted in the modernization and updating of a centenary building through the recovery of the representative spaces together with the restoration of the existing decorative elements; the hierarchization and rearrangement of internal circulations; give the necessary scale and dimension to interior spaces; incorporate all those necessary services (facilities); improve the energy efficiency of the building.

Category

Built heritage

Edition

6

Year

2021

Author

AGM ARQUITECTOS
Xabier Agirre Alzuru
Unai Gamboa Moreno
Enrique Munoa Fagoaga

External collaborators

Collaborators: Ane Simon, Iñigo Peñalba, Lander Martinez, Arantxa García.
Technical engineer- Atek Teknikari: Julen Rozas
Structure: Cristian Garuz
Instalations: Oscar Amores (Eotecnic)
Work Directors: Maider Lopez-Garin, Amaia Idiakez, Joseba Mendiluze

City

Donostia - San Sebastián

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

3.433

Cost €

6.448.432

Client

Public

Original Programme

Government

Programme

Government

© Photographer

Jorge Allende

Períod

Eclecticism

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Partial