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.

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The digital Archive, a live and open window that provides a panoramic view of interventions in the history of our surroundings.

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Lochgilphead Front Green

  • Lochgilphead Front Green
  • Lochgilphead Front Green
  • Lochgilphead Front Green
  • Lochgilphead Front Green

The Front Green is Lochgilphead’s core public space, a key part of the original composition of the eighteenth-century planned settlement, forming a green waterfront edge at the head of Loch Gilp. With rising sea levels, it was subject to regular coastal flooding, becoming increasingly unusable. By raising levels, a new constructed waterfront edge creates an 'infinity edge' for views over the Loch whilst mitigating flood risk. The design features a new public square on the axis of Argyll Street, creating a new setting for a war memorial and a unique civic space. The square re-establishes the Front Green as the focus of civic life and incorporates infrastructure for markets, events and play. The square is defined to one edge by a linear steel and timber screen structure, that helps to generate a human scale and provide wind shelter. Vernacular materials are celebrated, with locally quarried 'Greenstone', completely unique to the area, used in various formats to introduce variation in the ground plane and reflect local character.

Category

Exterior spaces

Edition

7

Year

2022

Author

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Rolf Roscher, Kevin Jones

Project team

-

External collaborators

Services engineer: Henderson Warnock
Structural Engineer: Narro Associates
Quantity Surveyor: MGAC
Consultation and engagement co-ordinator: Nick Wright Planning
Bespoke Fabrication: Sculpture and Design
Play Equipment: Timberplay Scotland
CDM Advisor: Armour Construction Consultants
Clerk of Works: Calum Clark
Main Contractor: Hawthorn Heights Ltd

City

Lochgilphead

Country

United Kingdom

Surface area sqm

9.500

Cost €

1.800.000

Client

Public
Argyll and Bute Council

Original Programme

Public Space

Programme

Public Space

© Photographer

Christopher Swan

Períod

Contemporary

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Total / Integral