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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Saint-Omer's Urban Heritage Protection Plan

  • Saint-Omer's Urban Heritage Protection Plan

The work is based on a registered site established in 1976 and the new plan is coordinated with the area’s management documents. The heritage protection plan was created between 2018 and 2023, based on a 2 year-long extensive research during which over half of the interiors were visited. The multi-disciplinary team has created a document which combines heritage protection and showcasing with the needs of further urban developments. The document is made in a hands-on, visual format in order for all future users to easily understand and make use of it. We bring our architect project-based experience to urban planning. Our work is based on an “open-work” methodological approach. We reach the highest standards through a dialogue with the building, the town planner, politician and citizen and between past, present and future. We avoid a static image of an area and strive to be part of the movement of history.

Category

Urban Planning

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2022

Author

Atelier d'architecture Philippe Prost/ AAPP
Philippe Prost

Project team

Julie Charrier

External collaborators

Landscape designer: In-folio,
Energy and environment: Symoe
Socio-economic consultant: Nouveaux territoires,

City

Saint-Omer

Country

France

Client

Public
DRAC Hauts de France et la CAPSO – Communauté d’Agglomération du Pays de Saint-Omer

Programme

Plan

© Photographer

Julie Charrier

Type of intervention

Area