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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Tintagel Castle Footbridge

Tintagel Castle Footbridge

Tintagel Castle is one of the UK’s most important historic sites. Managed by English Heritage on behalf of the Duchy of Cornwall it draws over 200,000 visitors a year and up to 3,000 a day in the peak summer season. The new bridge reconnects the two halves of the castle allowing visitors to experience the historic approach and entrance to the castle’s inner ward. The design is relatively simple – two cantilevers which reach out from each abutment and don’t quite meet in the middle. The palette of materials is equally simple: painted mild steel for the main beams; duplex stainless steel for the cross bracing, deck trays and balustrading; Delabole slate laid on edge for the deck finish; and untreated English oak for the handrail. Architecturally the aim was to create a bridge which was resolutely contemporary in its design and fabrication, but also timeless and complimentary to its setting.

Author

Ney & Partners
William Matthews Associates

Collaborators

Lead architects: Laurent Ney, Matthieu Mallie and William Matthews
Historic assessment: Ettwein Bridges
Geotechnical Engineering: Ramboll
Engineering: HRW Engineers
Landscape design: Nicholas Pearson Associates

Edition

5
Finalist

Year

2019

City

Tintagel, Cornualles

Country

United Kingdom

Website

https://wma.co/

Surface area sqm

150

Cost €

5.000.000

Client

Public

© Photographer

David Levene