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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Sablonceaux cemetery

Sablonceaux cemetery

The Sablonceaux cemetery extension project represented for us the first opportunity to intervene on a protected site. A way to reaffirm our point of view on an located architecture, able to jostle and surprise while respectfully insert in its context. The project is located at the foot of the Abbey, in the extension of the old cemetery. In a close relationship with the territory, it seeks to integrate delicately without modifying the topography. Thus, the new cemetery can be read like a line in the landscape, a new stratum. The constructed elements come to underline the Abbey. The use of “site concrete” constitutes the link between our intervention and the existing one. Go for the limestone where the stones of the Abbey could be extracted. Use it differently, in a contemporary way. These walls mark the new entrance and invite you to contemplate from a new angle the monument. Inside, the columbarium rises in front of us, hiding and revealing the existing wall, in a game of depths and rhythms that highlights the present stone, the passing time.

Category

Exterior spaces

Edition

3

Year

2014

Author

A6A
Roberto de Uña
Michel Hardoín
Antoine Ragonneau

External collaborators

Associated architect: Benoît Ragonneau
Landscape engineering: A2I Infra

City

Sablonceaux

Country

France

Surface area sqm

2.517

Cost €

127.880

Client

Public

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Agnès Clotis