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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“Sant Francesc” and “La Pardala” in Morella Castle

“Sant Francesc” and “La Pardala” in Morella Castle

The project was carried out in different phases, ranging from recovery to consolidation, with an integrative treatment of the new materials provided, with the removal of important fillings from the Carlist period that structurally affected the wall, the recovery of the archaeological remains found, or the creation of a new public space. In the crenellated wall, about 70 meters long and 14 meters high outside the walls, a structural consolidation was carried out, as it was at risk of collapse. Outside the walls, four buttresses have been placed, reinforcing the foundations. Limestone was used for the structural elements that were added, with reinforcements of stainless steel and fiberglass, while for the new the functional elements, such as the frame joineries, the material chosen was stainless steel treated with titanium steam. For the collection of rainwater, the main cause of the pathologies caused in the masonry of the Castle, a system of diffuse pavements and pipes has been arranged that direct the waters to a pre-existing outdoor pool.

Author

Carquero Arquitectura
Carlos Quevedo Rojas
Carlos Peinado Madueño

Collaborators

Quantity surveyor: Fermín Font Mezquita
Construction manager: Josep Brazo i Ramírez
Archaeologist: Ramiro Pérez Millán
Restorer: Nuria Albalat
Builder: Urcotex Inmobiliaria

Edition

6
Shortlisted

Year

2021

City

Morella

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

1.400

Cost €

1.511.895

Client

Public

Original Programme

Culture

Programme

Culture

© Photographer

Joan Roig

Períod

Ancient

Type of intervention

Restoration

Level of intervention

Structural