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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Bijloke Concert Hall

Bijloke Concert Hall

Set within the remarkable13th Century gothic hall, the former infirmary of the historic Bijloke hospital, the new 830 seat venue takes advantage of the particular qualities of the space as found, but augments them with characteristic elements of classical concert spaces, creating an concert hall of international standard. Despite its impressive scale, the existing hall does not have the natural attributes of a concert hall and the previous interior employed electro-acoustic enhancement to create even an acceptable acoustic environment. The new design obviates the need for this by increasing the natural reverberance of the space and improving the experience of both audience and performers. The new element is placed, vessel-like, within the larger body of the hall and is conceived as a finely made acoustic timber instrument that tunes the existing volume to provide both an enveloping and immersive sound and an appropriately intimate atmosphere, bringing a renewed sense of purpose to this significant historic setting.

Author

DRDH Architects
Julian Harrap Architects

Collaborators

Acoustic consultant: Arup
Theatre consultant: Arup
Structural engineer: ABT
M&E engineer: RCR
Main contractor: Denys
Specialized contractors: DTS-2, Amptec, Poltrona Frau

Edition

6
Finalist

Year

2020

City

Ghent

Country

Belgium

Surface area sqm

1.150

Cost €

4.600.000

Client

Public

Original Programme

Health

Programme

Culture

© Photographer

Karin Borghouts

Períod

Gothic

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Total / Integral