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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34 emergency dwellings

34 emergency dwellings

Given the dimensions of the space, the orientation, and the views, the project arranges the 34 dwellings on both sides of a corridor, to which a series of strategies are applied so the public space has the best environmental qualities and become a relationship space. First, 3 voids are made that reach the roof and get natural light, spatially relate the two floors, and allow cross ventilation of all the homes. The voids become benches or planters on the lower floor, a balcony on the upper, and a skylight on the roof. Secondly, the project places the common spaces strategically and alternately to expand the corridors: bicycle lot + laundry + multi-purpose room. Finally, in front of each unit, the corridor gets wide and, through windows, gets natural light. The dwellings, are arranged in 2 perpendicular halves to the facade: one, diaphanous and open, which occupies the public area and seeks to enhance cross ventilation and the relationship with the common space; and a second, closed and compartmentalized, that seeks privacy and order.

Author

MIM-A
Mariona Benedito Ribelles
Martí Sanz Ausàs

Collaborators

Team: Xavi Isart, Clara Vidal
Structures: Manuel Arguijo
Fluids: AIA
Quantity surveyor: Gruart (Alba Subirada)

Edition

6
Special Mention New European Bauhaus

Year

2022

City

Sant Feliu de Llobregat

Country

Spain

Website

mim-a.com

Surface area sqm

2.474

Cost €

1.521.535,85

Client

Public

Original Programme

Office

Programme

Collective housing

© Photographer

José Hevia

Períod

Contemporary

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Total / Integral