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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Barn house

Barn house

An agricultural building from the early 20th century has been disused. The structure and dimensions of a barn are very different from those of a house. However, this is taken as an opportunity: to preserve the identity and beauty of the productive space and the vernacular nature of its construction. The building has two wards, one intended for a barn and the other for a cellar, with few openings and great height. It is decided to thermally condition the ward for a barn and preserve the bay for a cellar as an intermediate space between the house and the barnyard-garden. The adobe walls remain intact. In the first ward, the existing openings are maintained, a slab is inserted in the central part and its envelope is painted with lime. In the second ward, the tiles are replaced by transparent polycarbonate or they are eliminated creating a courtyard. Thus, the space is preserved, allowing light to enter the first ward, visually connecting it with the garden. Thus, a deteriorating container is recycled to become an inhabited space again.

Author

g+f arquitectos
María Antonia Fernández Nieto
Jorge Gallego Sánchez-Torija

Collaborators

Team: Carla Domínguez

Edition

5
Shortlisted

Year

2019

City

Pozanco, Ávila

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

250

Cost €

75.000

Client

Private

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Joaquín Mosquera Casares