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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Alot Olot: Arquitectura, paisatge i deliri garrotxí

  • Alot Olot: Arquitectura, paisatge i deliri garrotxí

The character of the town of Olot and its surroundings, through landscape and architecture, is the focus of the visual essay Alot Olot. Arquitectura, paisatge i deliri garrotxí. It reflects a collective sensitivity, shared across all layers of society, where the aura of the School of Art can surely be glimpsed. It also highlights the unresolved contradiction between the idealization of the bucolic landscape by landscape painters and the town’s industrial development. This narrative is built by furniture, signs, rooms, buildings, facades, streets, gardens, and landscapes. It groups together specific situations of what has been built in Olot and its surroundings, whether ther are common and repeated or singular and exceptional. There are as many landscapes as observers and, also as much beauty, depending on how one looks at it. Seen at the same time, they reveal, in our opinion, three dualities that shelter the collection and go to know if the character of the city: curiosity and imagination, rigor and sensitivity, ingenuity and fantasy.

Category

Disclosure

Edition

7
Finalist

Year

2024

Author

Un Parell d’Arquitectes
Eduard Callis Freixas, Guillem Moliner Milhau

Roger Serrat-Calvó i Calm

Project team

Clàudia Calvet

External collaborators

Graphic design: Setanta

City

Olot

Country

Spain

Client

Public
Observatori del Paisatge de Catalunya i Ajuntament d’Olot

Programme

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Roger Serrat-Calvó i Calm, Un Parell d’Arquitectes