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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Gasworks area

Gasworks area

After more than 100 years of industrial activity, the Gasworks area in Stockholm closed in 2011. In 2017 the process began to physically transform the area from a closed industrial area into a vivid city district. Once a polluting industry, now a sustainable urban development. The exterior spaces have been given special attention and the balance between the public realm and the buildings has been treated respectfully. We have worked with a light hand, basically trying to do as little as possible, still adding a grammar of carefully selected actions. All materials used blend into a carefully chosen palette. The main green element is an elevated pipeline that, completed with climbers, forms a 400 m long a trellis. The main public space is the central square, which is a focal point in the area, connecting streets and alleys. The Gasworks area is an example of how an industrial heritage area can be transformed regarding content, yet with historical values intact. A former closed world has opened for social use and city life.

Author

sweco
Staffan Sundström
Thorbjörn Andersson

Collaborators

Hanna Assargård, Daniel Gulliksson, Sara Brundin, Joseph Greaves

Edition

6
Finalist

Year

2022

City

Stockholm

Country

Sweden

Website

www.sweco.se

Surface area sqm

15.000

Cost €

5.395.400,79

Client

Public

Original Programme

Public Space

Programme

Public Space

© Photographer

Jann Lipka

Períod

Contemporary

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Partial