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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Rec Comtal in Vallbona

Rec Comtal in Vallbona

Rec Comtal has been one of the most important hydraulic infrastructures in Barcelona that supplied water and irrigated the Besos agricultural territory from the 10th century to the middle of the 20th century. Therefore, it is an essential element to understand the economic and social development of the last thousand years in Barcelona. Nowadays, almost all Rec Comtal has disappeared due to urban growth in the last century and the archaeological remains are abandoned. The only place that still has running water is located in Vallbona’s neighborhood. After the development of a Master Plan we were commissioned to implement a lowcost intervention for the recovery and restoration of Rec Comtal’s surroundings in Vallbona. To recover it as an ecological ecosystem and a climate shelter, we plant new species that clean and shade the water reducing its temperture and introducing new habitats for animals and insects. Two viewpoints, overlaying existing infrastructures, bring people close to the water, recovering the past and looking into the future.

Author

Carles Enrich Studio
Carles Enrich

Collaborators

Bioengineering: Naturalea

Edition

6
Finalist

Year

2022

City

Barcelona

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

600

Cost €

55.000

Client

Public

Original Programme

Infraestructure

Programme

Landscape

© Photographer

Adrià Goula

Períod

Ancient

Type of intervention

Restoration

Level of intervention

Total / Integral