INFLUENCES FOR THE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

THE THERME VALS - PETER ZUMTHOR
“Mountain, stone, water – building in the stone, building with the stone, into the mountain, building out of the mountain, being inside the mountain – how can the implications and the sensuality of the association of these words be interpreted, architecturally?” Peter Zumthor

HOUSE IN MALLORCA - ALVARO SIZA
The volume consists of three large blocks, which are subdivided into several smaller pieces. The connection between the separate volumes is made by crossing gap between them.

CAN LIS - JORN UTZON

The ingenuity of Can Lis lies in its reinterpretation of traditional Majorcan building methods and the use of local building materials. Can Lis was planned an organic, unified whole, its layout framing the day-to-day events that marked Utzon family life. Jørn Utzon's ideology centred on this very phenomenon - that architecture is not an external form: it is primarily the frame that encloses a collection of ritualized events.

KAUFMANN HOUSE - RICHARD NEUTRA

The flow from interior to exterior space is not simply a spatial condition rather it is an issue of materiality that creates the sinuous experience. The glass and steel make the house light, airy, and open, but it is the use of stone that solidifies the houses contextual relationship. The light colored, dry set stone, what Neutra calls “Utah buff,” brings out the qualities of the glass and steel, but it also blends into the earthy tones of the surrounding landscape of the stone, mountains, and trees.

DELEVOPMENT OF THE IDEA

Before starting to design the project, i tried to find the mind ideas that i wanted to follow. In the first place, I thought my building should be a silence construction, that doesn't interfere with the views of the place, the ruins or the terrain. Other of the main ideas was to create a single construction that contains the working pavilion; the reception pavilion and the restaurant, in order t create an interaction between the different activities that take place together in the place. Finally, it was important for me to realize a functional building for both tourist and workers, integrating in the program the main itineraries.

In order to not interfere in the terrain or in the views, i place my building in the lowest part of the plot, that is already plain, and I integrate the lowest way to the area.

Study of the different itineraries and points of view:

We can see how the different programs are integrated between them by a pergola that leaves the light enter creating shadows throw the different ways. We also open some spacer in the main wall in order to create some interesting point of view of the town and the landscape and letting the light enter the construction. If we look to the building from the town, this would look like a broken wall of a castle, as the one in the castle up in the hill.

Here some views of the building when walking throw the pergolas:

Plans of the idea:

 DRAWINGS OF THE AREA

ANALISYS OF THE PLACE AND VIDEO RECORDING

Medellín is a Spanish town from the province of Badajoz, Extremadura. It was founded by romans and it was the town of Hernan Cortés. Medellín conservates even the wars and the time passing an important monumental heritage. The most important ones are the medieval castle, the XVII century bridge crossing the Guadiana and a recently discovered Roman theatre. The town is mostly plain, because it is situated next to the Guadiana River. The only hill that stands out is the one that has the castle and the roman theatre’s ruins.

The clima is “mediterráneo subtropical”. The medium temperature of the year is 15.8ºC. The winters are soft, with an average temperature of 8.2ºC. The summer is dry and hot with a medium temperature of 23.6ºC. There is not much raining. The flora is “durilignosa” type with a Mediterranean forest represented by the holm oak and other types of brush.

All this turn this place unique, from the historical, archeological, architectonical and natural point of view. All the historical elements are preserved searching for a future anastylosis: replace the elements on its original position, reconstruction technique whereby a ruined building or monument is restored using the original architectural elements to the greatest degree possible. The proyect will try to put up some pavilions in the plot given (the area between the two churches), in order to create a reception and ticket office for the visitors, a restaurant, and a workshop shed and tenement for the archeologist. Crating some industrialized desmontable houses for the archeologist should be good for the proyect also.

While we get into the plot where we are going to do the project, we can find different vegetation and materials because of the ruins and the different previous interventions that have been made surrounding the area. Talking about vegetation, the most seen is the olive, but there is no much because of the continuous earth moving realized by the archeological digging. Most of the paths are done by Stone from the place, but another less important ways are still made of earth, without any treatment given. The red forged Steel is also present in the surroundings of the plot, during the path that goes from the roman theatre to the castle.