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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Interior Public Courtyard

  • Interior Public Courtyard
  • Interior Public Courtyard
  • Interior Public Courtyard
  • Interior Public Courtyard

This new space improves pedestrian connectivity in the city's old town. By expropriating a dilapidated dwelling and a non-conforming building, two neighborhoods are connected: the old call and a more active commercial area, but with the intention of converting it into a place of relaxation. The city of Inca maintains a physiognomy that is repeated throughout the island: streets with barely any vegetation and courtyards/orchards in the interiors of blocks protected from the harsh climate in winter and summer. As many elements of the old construction as possible are maintained to enhance the interior character of this new public space. The sandstone pillars, traces of walls dating from different periods, are consolidated. The new plaza is bordered by a temporary wall toward the southeast municipal lot pending construction. The elements incorporated emphasize the idea of historical memory and the ambiguity between the street and the interior courtyard. Vegetation that is linked to the city and the territory is planted.

Category

Exterior spaces

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2024

Author

FlexoArquitectura
Aixa del Rey, Tomeu Ramis

Project team

-

External collaborators

-

City

Inca

Country

Spain

Surface area sqm

67

Cost €

234.233

Client

Public
Inca City council

Original Programme

Dwelling

Programme

Public Space

© Photographer

José Hevia

Períod

Vernacular

Type of intervention

Transformation

Level of intervention

Total / Integral