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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Memorial of the Former Deportation Station

  • Memorial of the Former Deportation Station
  • Memorial of the Former Deportation Station
  • Memorial of the Former Deportation Station
  • Memorial of the Former Deportation Station

Between 1943 and the summer of 1944, around 22,500 men, women and children were deported from the Bobigny station, making this one of the most important sites for the deportation of French Jews during World War II. After the war, the site was turned into a steel scrap yard which stayed in use until the mid-2000s. Paradoxically, that industrial activity is what protected the site for decades, and allowed it to survive major urban transformations and evolutions. We focused on creating an open-air experience and route, revealing the original topography of the site, making the existence of its history visible and perceptible within the urban context of Bobigny. We provide visitors with an emotional and symbolic immersion through the levels that structure the site, gradually guiding them into contact with the traces of the historical heritage. We created a place for remembrance and commemoration, but also a place for education. In an increasingly polarised world, memorial places are important for opening dialogue, for fighting discrimination, and for keeping history alive.

Category

Exterior spaces

Edition

7
Finalist

Year

2023

Author

OKRA
Pierre-Alexandre Marchevet

Project team

-

External collaborators

AAPP architectes, OTCE engineers, AEU ecologists, 8’18 light designers

City

Bobigny

Country

France

Surface area sqm

30.000

Cost €

2.500.000

Client

Public
Ville de Bobigny

Original Programme

Landscape

Programme

Landscape

© Photographer

Aitor Ortiz, Ville de Bobigny (Sylla Grinberg)

Períod

Contemporary

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Partial