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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Corral de Don Diego

  • Corral de Don Diego
  • Corral de Don Diego
  • Corral de Don Diego
  • Corral de Don Diego

The main objective of this urban regeneration project was to return a lost urban space to the city by handing it over to the citizens for them to make it their own, enhancing its historical value, promoting cultural values, and improving the quality of life for residents and other users. It has been a priority: - Improvement of road urban connectivity - Resolution of boundary conflicts between neighbouring properties - A new public square that functions as a meeting space with a permanent cultural program and as a theatrical cavea for cultural commemorations. - Sustainability: reuse of demolition materials from walls. - The concept of urban landscape: elements reminiscent of the historical places that once existed there. The recycling of materials and the use of traditional techniques in the rehabilitation has led to a lower carbon footprint; and the landscaping of the public space project has enhanced the environmental values of the location. The new public space fosters social relationships at both the neighbourhood and city levels.

Category

Exterior spaces

Edition

7
Finalist

Year

2024

Author

Consorcio de la Ciudad de Toledo
Jesús Corroto Briceño, Pablo González Collado

Project team

-

External collaborators

Estudio San Lorenzo 8: Benjamín Juan Santágueda, Jesús Gómez Escalonilla
Acro Arquitectos: José Antonio Rosado Artalejo
Agoin Arquitectura y Gestión: Emilio Alonso Gómez Quantity surveyor: Roberto Pina Ludeña, Paloma Bel Borja, Juan Luis Martín Rodríguez
Archaeologists: Antonio Gómez Laguna, Juan Manuel Rojas, Arturo Ruiz Taboada, Santiago Moreno Pérez, Soledad Sánchez-Chiquito
Restoration: Carolina Peña, Miguel Ángel Bonache

City

Toledo

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

1.710,37

Cost €

2.140.845,67

Client

Public
Toledo Town Hall

Original Programme

Public Space

Programme

Public Space

© Photographer

Imagen Subliminal

Períod

From the late Middle Ages to the present day

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Total / Integral