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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Kunstsilo

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The Kunstsilo project transforms a historic grain elevator in Kristiansand into a contemporary art museum. Originally designed in 1935 and expanded in 1939 and 1956, the silo is reimagined to create a dialogue between past and present. The silo becomes the museum's sculptural centerpiece, with the most striking intervention being the opening of the silos to a height of 21 meters, turning them into the building’s heart: the foyer, or Silosalen. This open, basilica-like space is public, with adjacent cylinders opening into the hall. Exhibition galleries encircle the silo, while a sculpture terrace and event space offer panoramic views. The design respects the silo's industrial architecture while adapting it to new functions and enhancing its expressive potential.

Category

Built heritage

Edition

7
Finalist

Year

2024

Author

Mestres Wåge
Maria Mestres, Magnus Wåge

BAX
Boris Bezan

Mendoza Partida
Mara Partida, Hector Mendoza

Project team

Erlend Aalmo Strønstad, Ona Marija Auskelyte, Ana Irisarri, Alejandro Álvarez, Marc Busquets, Oscar Espinosa, Fredrikke Frølich, Martin Hauge, Olga Bombac, Carlos Para, German Bosch, Damian Plouganou, Marc Sanchez, Juan Mier

External collaborators

Interior architects: Scenario
Landscape architects: Henning Larsen
Light design: Henning Larsen
Structural engineers: Degree of Freedom, Rambøll, Other Structures
HVAC: BJ miljø
EL Inst: Rambøll
Contractor: Backe Sør
Consultants: ViaNova Kristiansand, Stærk & co, Multiconsult, Landmåler Sør, Cowi, Asplan Viak, Dagfin Skaar, Advansia, Nonspace, Aas-Jakobsen

City

Kristiansand

Country

Norway

Surface area sqm

10.300

Cost €

62.218.649

Client

Public
Stiftelsen Kunstsilo

Original Programme

Industrial

Programme

Culture

© Photographer

Alan Williams, Pedro Pegenaute

Períod

Rationalism

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Total / Integral