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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Jardines Mediterráneos de la Hoya Park

  • Jardines Mediterráneos de la Hoya Park
  • Jardines Mediterráneos de la Hoya Park
  • Jardines Mediterráneos de la Hoya Park
  • Jardines Mediterráneos de la Hoya Park

This landscape intervention reclaims the unique heritage site of La Hoya for the city of Almería. La Hoya is a gorge located on the edge of the historic quarter, between the hills of the Alcazaba and San Cristóbal, and crossed by the 11th-Century Wall of Jayrán. During the High Middle Ages, it was occupied by a neighborhood which was later abandoned, becoming an agricultural space which over the centuries turned into forgotten vacant lot. Historic landscape restoration, environmental regeneration and spatial reimagination all intertwine to define this proposal. The act of revealing the story of this landscape in order to become part of the palimpsest of its evolution has been the main premise of this project. The intervention reflects upon what a park should be in a heritage site such as this one, in the context of the current environmental crisis, and in a dry climate like Almeria’s. The overall goal being to transform La Hoya into a public space and a habitat whose program is the pure enjoyment of such an exceptional and historic place.

Category

Exterior spaces

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2023

Author

KAUH ARQUITECTURA Y PAISAJISMO
Vincent Morales Garoffolo, Juan Antonio Sánchez Muñoz

Project team

Architect: Manuel Barba Architect,
Building engineer: Lorena González
Health and safety: Gustavo Corredera
Biologist: Joaquín Morales Garoffolo
Renders: Esperanza Moreno Cruz
Landscape: Mark Risner

External collaborators

Lighting Design: Alberto Giachi
Electrical Facilities: Hesar Ingeniería y Desarrollo
Hydraulics, Drainage, Irrigation: Cerener Consultoría Agroambiental
Archeologist: Rafael Sevillano
Surveyor: Ginés Alarcós, Consuelo Castillo
Construction Site Manager: Álvaro García Gascón
Constructor: UTE Jarquil + Grupo COPSA

City

Almeria

Country

Spain

Website

https://kauh.es

Surface area sqm

42.600

Cost €

2.671.648,55

Client

Public
Almeria City Council

Original Programme

Public Space

Programme

Public Space

© Photographer

Fernando Alda, Ana Amado

Períod

Islamic

Type of intervention

Restoration

Level of intervention

Total / Integral