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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Metro010

  • Metro010

“If you get to know a city, you will start to love it, and what you love, you will take care of.” - METRO O1O is a richly illustrated graphic novel exploring Rotterdam’s architectural and urban heritage. Through visual storytelling it traces the city’s journey, starting from its founding at the Rotte River, and ending in the future. The book highlights how generations of residents have shaped Rotterdam’s identity, as ‘citymakers’, and how they continue to influence its transformation. The book aims to promote young people’s ownership of the city living environment through layered educational projects. It tackles themes like diversity, climate change, sustainability, and energy transition, bridging architectural and urban challenges. By now 20.000 seventh grade students at 76 schools in Rotterdam have received the book free of charge. In Groningen a book is under construction, Berlin and Frankfurt to follow. Awarded the German Design- and the Polis Award, the book makes complex urban narratives accessible, as a new form of city development.

Category

Disclosure

Edition

7
Shortlisted

Year

2022

Author

YOU Foundation
Ellen Schindler

Project team

Story: Abdelkader Benali
19 illustrators, city poets: Benzokarim, Vienne Lisa Haagoort, Moze Naél, Mariana Hirschfeld
Photographers: Loes van Duijvendijk & Elizar Veerman
Historians: Michelle Provoost, Han van der Horst Graphic design: Roosje Klap (ARK), Tijmen Stieber (De Zwarte Hond)
Maps: Nadia Pepels (DZH)
Project management: YOU-Maartje Berendsen.

External collaborators

De Zwarte Hond, Municipality of Rotterdam, Library Rotterdam, AIR, Stadsarchief Rotterdam, Theater Zuidplein, IABR, Crimson, Digital Playground, Museum Boymans, Maritime Museum, Museum Rotterdam, Urban Guides.

City

Rotterdam

Country

Netherlands

Client

Public
YOU Foundation

Programme

Book

© Photographer

De Zwarte Hond