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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Eco-illa laMercedes

Eco-illa laMercedes

The Mercedes-Benz factory is in a crucial position between two Barcelona neighbourhoods, Bon Pastor and Sant Andreu. The factory creates a barrier between surrounding residential areas with different social and economic characteristics, the plan aims to make it the intersection of two new urban axes that will connect them. The Mercedes factory's historical and cultural value lies both in the material value of its buildings, a product of successive projects carried out by the architect Robert Terradas between the 1950s and 1970s, with a rationalist architecture of clear Nordic inspiration, and in its intangible value as a testimony to the neighbourhood’s industrial past. The urban transformation of the Mercedes enclosure recognizes the architectural history and social significance of the place from the reuse of various existing buildings that have degraded and obsolete infrastructures. The complex is centred around the central warehouse, whose structure is conserved to create a large public square

Author

Batlleiroig
Enric Batlle Durany
Joan Roig i Duran
Albert Gil Margalef
Helena Salvadó Giné
Josep Batlle Blay
Joan Batlle Blay
Abel Porcar Badal

Collaborators

Garrigues

Edition

6
Finalist

Year

2022

City

Barcelona

Country

Spain

Client

Private

Programme

Plan

© Photographer

SBDA

Type of intervention

Area