The European Award AHI-Architectural Heritage Intervention 2025

Architectural Heritage Intervention ve Architects’ Association of Catalonia tarafından düzenlenen European AHI Awards'ın yedincisi için kayıtlar başladı. 2013 yılından bu yana her iki yılda bir düzenlenen yarışmada, Avrupa mirasına yönelik en başarılı müdahaleler, dört kategoride ödüllendiriliyor. Mimari miras alanında çalışmalarını yürüten profesyoneller, dernekler ve/veya kurumlara açık olan yarışma için son başvuru tarihi ise 14 Mart 2025.

Call

The European Award AHI is a biennial event. The main goal of this event is to distinguish quality interventions in all the aspects of built heritage and contribute to their dissemination. The contest is aimed at consolidating itself as a catalyst and observatory of new challenges added to the conservation and intervention in built heritage by the globalization of contemporary architecture.

The event is organised with the support of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC).

Jury

The European Award appoints an international jury in each edition. A committee of experts with an accredited trajectory in the field of intervention in Architectural Heritage.

Built heritage

• Stijn Cools, aNNo Architecten. Belgium
• Ruth Schagemann, President of the Architects’ Council of Europe. Germany. (Pending Confirmation)
• Meritxell Inaranja. Spain

Exterior espaces

• Michaela De Poli, MADE associati. Italy
• Fernando Menis. Spain
• Gentzane Goikuria, behark. Spain

Urban planning

• Batu Kepekcioğlu, DATA STUDIO. Turkey
• Bart Akkerhuis, Studio Akkerhuis. France
• Ioanna Spanou, Barcelona Regional. Spain

Disclosure

• Elodie Degavre. Belgium
• Stephen Bates, Sergison Bates architects. United Kingdom
• Mariona Benedito. Spain

Special Restoration Mention

• Anneleen Stevens, B-juxta. Belgium
• with the management team of the Award: Ramon Calonge, Oriol Cusidó, Marc Manzano, Jordi Portal

Special New European Bauhaus Mention

• Marcos Ros, representative of the European Parliament
• with the management team of the Award: Ramon Calonge, Oriol Cusidó, Marc Manzano, Jordi Portal

Who can participate?

The European Award AHI is aimed at all those professionals, associations and administrations linked to architectural heritage, such as: architects, architectural firms, town planners, historians, archaeologists…, whose works have been conducted in the European geographical Area.

The following groups of people may not enter the contest: Any member of the COAC board, any jury member, or the members of the management team of the Award; as well as employees, collaborators or their associates or those related to them (until second degree of consanguinity and second of affinity).

Categories

The call is divided into four categories:

Built heritage

Aimed at all those architectural interventions, ephemeral or permanent, in buildings, at any scale. Interventions are mainly considered in protected buildings and groups of buildings, but may also involve all those interventions of culturally specific interest which have no protection, but are embedded in an urban or naturally protected space and help to define its historic character.

Exterior spaces

Aimed at all those interventions intended to propose solutions to the historic public space, understood as a space facilitating the social and economic
relations that exist in historic centres. Those spaces that are declared monumental groups of buildings are also included, as are those that constitute the origin of villages, towns and cities.

Interventions in the area of monuments and cultural landscapes are also accepted.

Urban planning

Aimed at all those Special Plans for heritage protection, catalogues, inventories, or other planning instruments, involving the protection, conservation and
enhancement of architectural heritage. General planning documents, those documents derived from planning, etc., are also included, as well as those at local level that are aimed at the protection of architectural heritage.

Disclosure

Aimed at all those initiatives and actions which are mainly concerned with the dissemination of architectural heritage values, not only among professionals and technicians in the industry, but in society in general. Publications, articles, audiovisual accounts, presentations, events and all kinds of activities related to the promotion and appreciation of this heritage are also accepted.

Awards

The jury will give their verdict at the award ceremony to take place in June 2025 in the city of Barcelona.

The awards for each category will be as follows:

– Built heritage: from of a maximum selection of 15, 1 award and finalists will be established.

– Exterior espaces: from of a maximum selection of 10, 1 award and finalists will be established.

– Urban planning: from of a maximum selection of 6, 1 award and finalists.

– Disclosure: from of a maximum selection of 6, 1 award and finalists.

In addition, from all the work presented, two Special Mention will be concede: a Special Restoration Mention to the intervention which from a technical and methodological point of view stands out for its quality, precision and respect; and a Special New European Bauhaus Mention to the work presented that prioritize ideals such as sustainability, aesthetics, or inclusion.

The organization reserves the right to declare any award category vacant, stating the appropriate reason on record. The winners will be awarded a framed reproduction of an original photograph by Francesc Català Roca from the historical archive of COAC. The finalists and those selected will receive a diploma.

The winning entries, finalists, those selected and submitted works will be part of Archive AHI and the catalogue published for each issue to document the event. Likewise, they will be part of an exhibition and/or participate in a conference to describe their work.

Calendar

December 18th 2024

• Publication of the contest rules
• Opening of the call

December 18th 2024 – March 14th 2025

• Registration period and presentation of projects

March – April 2025

• Evaluation period of the projects by the jury

May 2025

• Publication of selected projects

June of 2025

• Jury decision and Award ceremony