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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"Illa de la Pietat" as a public space

"Illa de la Pietat" as a public space

The city of Vic has a dense and compact historic centre, with an exceptional wealth of heritage. It can be read as a sum of urban landscapes, which on the first-floor streets, squares, cloisters, stores and especially many monumental public buildings are linked. The “Illa de la Pietat” is formed by a combination of buildings: The Roman Temple, the remains of the Romanesque Castle of the “Montcada”, and the church and baroque chapels of the “Pietat, Sants Màrtirs and Fonda”. We propose a transversal view that provides the experience of the complex, recognizing and valuing the different times contained, and activating them in connection with the rest of the city's landscapes. Different interior and exterior intermediate spaces are proposed sequentially as new doors or thresholds that are offered to understand different existing realities in the monumental complex of the “Pietat”, generating multiple and labyrinthine routes, which enable an experience full of emotions that help visitors to understand the essence and the complexity of the place.

Category

Exterior spaces

Edition

5
Shortlisted

Year

2020

Author

estudi d'arquitectura toni gironès
Toni Gironès Saderra

External collaborators

Team: Meritxell Vila
Engineering: Aquilue Serrat
Quantity surveyor: Jordi Auguet and Jordi Llobet
Blacksmith: Ramón Cestero (Smartec98)
Carpentry: Marta Salvans (Vic City Council)
Courtains: Panadès Interiorisme Tèxtil

City

Vic, Barcelona

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

740

Cost €

430.444

Client

Public

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Fernando Alda