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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Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound

  • Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound
  • Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound
  • Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound
  • Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound

The Warsaw Uprising Mound Park is a refuge on a 40-meter hill made from WWII debris. Overgrown since the 1960s, it evolved into a ruderal forest. The project revitalized the site, recognizing its ecological and symbolic significance, through three strategies: symbolism, Fourth Nature, and rubble reuse. Symbolic: In 1994, Warsaw Uprising veteran Lt. Col. Ajewski initiated the construction of a monument, highlighting the hill's memorial value. By 2019, the site was redesigned into a meaningful public space. Fourth Nature: This once-degraded brownfield was revived by pioneer and invasive species, fostering natural succession, biodiversity, and soil restoration, managing water runoff and creating niches for wildlife. Rubble reuse: Debris from post-war Warsaw was recycled into innovative "Warsaw urbanite" concrete for retaining walls and the hill’s base. Incorporating elements like bricks and tiles, this material integrates with nature over time. Rubble also filled gabions in the park's Lapidary, a maze of "ruins".

Category

Exterior spaces

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2023

Author

archigrest
Maciej Kaufman, Marcin Maraszek

topoScape
Justyna Dziedziejko, Magdalena Wnęk

Project team

Karolina Potebska, Agata Holdenmajer, Natalia Janek, Jerzy Przychodni, Rafał Murawski, Joanna Chylak, Anna Sternytska, Agnieszka Tama, Michał Trawinski

External collaborators

Structural design: Krzysztof Guraj, Paweł Komorek
Concrete technology: Krzysztof Kuniczuk
Phytosociological consultation: Piotr Sikorski
Exhibition – heritage trail: Adam Przywara
Exhibition – nature trail: Kasper Jakubowski
Visual and graphic design of exhibitions: Kaja Kusztra

City

Warsaw

Country

Poland

Surface area sqm

82.919

Cost €

5.300.000

Client

Public
Capital City of Warsaw

Original Programme

Landfill

Programme

Public Space

© Photographer

Michał Szlaga, Zbigniew Siemaszko, Jerzy Przychodni

Períod

Contemporary

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Total / Integral