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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Atlas of Architectural Reuse

  • Atlas of Architectural Reuse

Atlas of Architectural Reuse. A Critical Study of Reused Buildings in Barcelona consists mainly of a systematic inventory of 1463 buildings that have undergone one or more changes of use during their existence, adapting to activities and programs that were not originally foreseen. The registration, analysis and comparison of all the buildings collected allow conclusions to be drawn in order to develop a “theory of use in architecture”, and ends up with a protocol for action, consisting of a series of intervention guidelines that would be applicable to the reprogramming of new cases. All this documentary material, as well as the transversal themes, is the result of 4 years of research by the UPC Habitar team. This work enriches the design bases for the much-needed "paradigm shift" in interventions on the existing fabric. Atlas Reuse is not only a tool for understanding the useful life of buildings, but also a reflection of the changes the city is undergoing and the need to broaden the concept of heritage and its key role in sustainability

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Disclosure

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2018

Author

Habitar, grupo de investigación UPC
Xavier Monteys, Magda Mària, Pere Fuertes, Roger Sauquet, Núria Salvadó

Project team

Nuria Ortigosa , Alba Arboix, Ana Santolaria , Antoni Vidal , Luis Gómez , Iñaki Tarragó , Anna Puigjaner , Dicle Taskin , Mónica Flores , Simone Censi , Ana G. Constantinescu

External collaborators

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City

Barcelona

Country

Spain

Client

Public
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad

Programme

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