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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Mercado do Bolhão

Mercado do Bolhão

The building protection as “monument of public interest” assigned to Mercado do Bolhão in 2013, recognizes heritage value in two inseparable dimensions – the uniqueness of the Beaux Arts building and its function as a traditional market. The proposed intervention in the building and market (conceived by Correia da Silva in 1914/17) is based on the recovery and enhancement of the original matrix of the building and the modernization necessary to meet the requirements of its function. This transformative action, attentive to the existing heritage, aims to enhance the building identity and coherence, removing spurious elements and managing new infrastructures without losing its most important values - the sellers, the users and the fresh market activity.

Author

Nuno Valentim, Arquitectura e Reabilitação
Nuno Valentim
Rita Machado Lima
Margarida Carvalho
Frederico Eça
Juliano Ribas
Luís Mendonça (designer)

Collaborators

Team: Maria Ana Sousa Coutinho, Margarida Ramos, Pedro Lima da Costa, Nuno Borges, Filipa Ferreira, Francisca Lopes, Julia Zak, Otília Ayres Pereira, Ricardo Murca, Carolina Manarte, Ailton Correia, Elsa Pinto, Sara Noronha, Alexandra Gouveia Santos
Engineering: JCT, Gatengel, GM
Consulting: Prof. Vasco Peixoto de Freitas, Prof. Aníbal Costa, António Vasques
Brand and signs: Eduardo Aires

Edition

6
Shortlisted

Year

2022

City

Porto

Country

Portugal

Surface area sqm

22.142

Cost €

25.700.000

Client

Public

Original Programme

Commercial

Programme

Commercial

© Photographer

Marta Maria Ferreira / Luís Ferreira Alves

Períod

Eclecticism

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Total / Integral