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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Palazzo dei Diamanti

  • Palazzo dei Diamanti
  • Palazzo dei Diamanti
  • Palazzo dei Diamanti
  • Palazzo dei Diamanti

The project for Palazzo dei Diamanti involves a series of interventions aimed on one hand at the restoration and enhancement of the 16th century complex and on the other at adapting the exhibition spaces to the needs of a contemporary museum. The first intervention focused on the main pre-existing exhibition areas which have been equipped with new highly technological surfaces and plant equipment. In the Rossetti wing, new Venetian terrazzo floors were created and new portals in burnished brass were inserted emphasizing the spatial sequence of the Renaissance palace. The second intervention introduced new support facilities: a cafeteria, a bookshop, a teaching room and a multipurpose room. The third intervention concerned the continuity of the paths with the most important operation being the creation in the garden of a connection between the two wings of the building. This new connection consists of a light, trilithic structure in charred wood - only partially closed by glass - which extends into the garden, highlighting its main geometries.

Category

Built heritage

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2023

Author

Labics
Maria Claudia Clemente, Francesco Isidori

Project team

Carolina Bajetti, Andrea Di Renzo, Margherita Tommasi

External collaborators

Structures and MEP: 3TI Progetti Italia
Design of the restoration works: Arch. Elisabetta Fabbri
Design of the exhibition works: Giovanni de Vito
Landscape design: Stefano Olivari
Garden lighting design: Massimiliano Baldieri

City

Ferrara

Country

Italy

Surface area sqm

9.099

Cost €

5.875.000

Client

Public
Municipality of Ferrara

Original Programme

Culture

Programme

Culture

© Photographer

Marco Cappelletti

Períod

Renaissance

Type of intervention

Restoration

Level of intervention

Total / Integral