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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Cortevecchia Square

  • Cortevecchia Square
  • Cortevecchia Square
  • Cortevecchia Square
  • Cortevecchia Square

New Piazza Cortevecchia is a tree-lined square, fully accessible void suitable for hosting a variety of events and activities. The presence of underground utilities and archaeological remains makes it necessary to plant trees at higher levels. Therefore, the continuous stone ground of the square is rippled, acquiring three-dimensionality, determining the formation of specific atolls available to plant communities. The laying of the porphyry cubes follows the topography created setting a rich geometric design of concentric circles. The choice of porphyry, in addition to setting an evident material continuity with the main historic urban spaces of the city, is also motivated by the possibility of making the sealing of the joints drainable, and therefore the paving itself. The project goes deeper than the pavement and the bedding layers, imagining an equally crucial “underground square”, which defines a highly innovative underground space that transforms rainwater from a potential problem to a precious resource.

Category

Exterior spaces

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2024

Author

INOUT architettura
Mario Benedetto Assisi

Project team

Valentina Milani, Giovanni Gibertini, Giulio Marchetti

External collaborators

Agronomist: Giovanni Morelli
Structures: David Voltan

City

Ferrara

Country

Italy

Surface area sqm

2.600

Cost €

800.000

Client

Public
Municipality of Ferrara

Original Programme

Infraestructure

Programme

Public Space

© Photographer

Simone Bossi

Períod

Contemporary

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Total / Integral