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.
 
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Provisional urbanization of Can Batlló

Provisional urbanization of Can Batlló

The 9 hectares Can Batlló industrial complex is located in the heart of the Sants-Montjuic district, occupying one-third of the area of La Bordeta. The textile industry which at first was the economic engine of the area ended up being its main problem due to the decline of its activity and the great barrier that supposes in the connectivity of the neighbourhood. In 2008 the planning and urbanization project was approved, which should allow the new development of the sector (housing, equipment, park, etc.). The ongoing real estate crisis slows down, indefinitely, the project. Finally, 3 years later, on June 11, 2011, at 11:00 a local platform accessed the venue and organized a ludic-reclamation conference with the aim of initiating, even by its own means, the process of recovery of the sector towards the neighbourhood. This is the context in which the assignment is addressed which is defining the first action of provisional urbanization that allows opening the sector to the neighbourhood.

Author

Batlleiroig
Enric Batlle
Joan Roig
Ivan Sánchez

Collaborators

Architect: Mario Súñer
Agricultural engineer & Landscape architect: Dolors Feu

Edition

5
Shortlisted

Year

2015

City

Barcelona

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

18.700

Cost €

1.370.671,08

Client

Public

© Photographer

Antonio Navarro Wijkmark