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.