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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Gruuthuse Museum

Gruuthuse Museum

Under the direction of B-juxta, the second phase of restoration works on the Gruuthuse Museum was completed in late 2017. The sculptural reie facade, the imposing roofs, the unusual joinery with stained-glass glazing, the majestic 19th-century ceiling with hanging vaults in the entrance hall, the large attic (now 'Studio+') with multi-coloured stencil paintings on the trusses and the impressive lead-clad belvedere tower, were all carefully restored with great attention to detail. The necessary preservation of the high level of detailing and rich ornamentation typical of the neo-Gothic architectural style requires expertise and sensitivity to adapt the historical patrimony to current standards and comfort requirements.

Author

B-juxta architecten
Anneleen Stevens
Eef de Clercq
Jan De Kesel
Mieke Goegebuer
Astrid Ossieur

Collaborators

Client: Stad Brugge
Exploitation: Musea Brugge
Heritage preservation en co-funding: Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed
Team: Anneleen Stevens, Mieke Goegebuer, Jan De Kesel, Eef De Clercq, Astrid Ossieur
Surveyor: Bureau Vandendriessche bvba
Technical analysis materials: Examino bvba
Structures: Abicon nv
Main contractor: Artes Woudenberg nv
Main contractor polychrome finishings: Altritempi nv

Edition

6
Special Mention Restoration

Year

2018

City

Bruges

Country

Belgium

Surface area sqm

3.231

Cost €

2.576.675

Client

Public

Original Programme

Culture

Programme

Culture

© Photographer

Michiel Vergauwe

Períod

Gothic

Type of intervention

Restoration

Level of intervention

Partial