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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Galenicum new headquarters

Galenicum new headquarters

This project involves the renovation of an industrial complex in a sector that is now under transformation. The existing building has two parts: a large diaphanous pavilion with a typically industrial structure of pillars, lattice trusses and a north-facing sawtooth roof, and an office block. There is also a central courtyard. This type of industrial building usually has a lot of space and light but poor shelter from the elements, making it expensive to heat and hard to organise when the nuances of a company with 140 staff members, a dozen departments and major short-to-medium term growth are factored in. For this type of space and brief, the air must be 'hierarchized' in a climatic gradient, and work must be well-distributed for organizational and comfort purposes. The project therefore aims to improve the conditions of the enveloping walls to temper the precinct.

Author

Harquitectes
David Lorente
Josep Ricart
Xavier Ros
Roger Tudó

Collaborators

Team: Meri Mensa, Lucía Ibáñez, Maria Azkarate, Adriana Parcerisa
Structure: DSM arquitectes
Quantity Surveyor: Carles Bou
Installations: M7 Enginyers
Project manager: José María Soria
Pharmaceutical laboratories: Mercedes Osés

Edition

6
Shortlisted

Year

2022

City

Esplugues de Llobregat

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

4.102

Cost €

-

Client

Private

Original Programme

Industrial

Programme

Office

© Photographer

Adrià Goula

Períod

Rationalism

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Partial