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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Share and reuse factory

  • Share and reuse factory
  • Share and reuse factory
  • Share and reuse factory
  • Share and reuse factory

The old firestation Kortrijk has been redeveloped into a share and reuse factory, where civic, neighborhood, and city initiatives come together. The 'Tuighuizen' building, known as the Old Fire Station, was built in 1940 and classified as a protected monument in 2003. This striking structure catches attention because of its tower housing a staircase, flanked by lower wings constructed in a concrete frame and clad in brick. The design emphasizes the building's welcoming gesture by opening it up at the corner and introducing a public market hall; a space where all participants can showcase their activities and where a social grocer displays its goods. At the heart of the project a series of workshops are organized, each with an own address facing the opened up courtyard. The existing industrial hall has been renovated into a central depot. The tower houses a climbing club, and the glass-enclosed crown becomes a unique space under a sky reimagined by an artist. The building is set to become a beacon, integrating the sharing economy into the city.

Category

Built heritage

Edition

7
Special Mention New European Bauhaus

Year

2023

Author

ATAMA
Carolien Pasmans, Bram Aerts

Project team

Robin Cuvelier

External collaborators

BDA Engineering
Studieburo De Klerck
Bureau De Fonseca bv

City

Kortrijk

Country

Belgium

Surface area sqm

3.304

Cost €

1.838.842

Client

Public
city Kortrijk Belgium

Original Programme

Social-Civic

Programme

Mixed Use

© Photographer

Stijn Bollaert

Períod

Modernism

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Partial