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In an unusual Spain compared to that belonging to collective imagination and made of Celtic memories, forests and stones, AGI architects have designed the landscape intervention of valorization and musealization of the 18 Galician-Roman settlements in the province of Pontevedra, in order to create a unitary network for the reinterpretation of the archaeological landscape of Galicia and to promote a more efficient socio-economic attractiveness of the area.
The first phase of the project involves 3 of the 18 settlements and regards the Celtic forts of Alobre, Toiriz and A Subidá. The common denominator is the idea of giving each place its own identity through a minimal language that designs rest points, signage (made of cortén), furniture (made of granite and cortén) and scenic routes (made of granite and concrete), in full respect of the archaeological and naturalistic context.
In the Castro of Alobre, the studio has designed a dynamic yet orderly paving pattern made of Galician granite that gradually leads to the places of visit within a general grid based on the Roman centuriation. The use of native species allows the signaling of the paths and the anchoring of the slopes and embankments.
In the Castro of Toiriz, an Iron Age settlement that has not yet been completely excavated, a radar survey has revealed the general configuration of the complex: to provide the visitor with an interpretation of the subsoil and to give the site a characterization, the studio has inserted some suspended land art elements that reproduce, in their steel tubular lines and corten shapes, the underground silhouettes of the ruins.
In the Romanized Castro of A Subidá, located on a hillock with steep slopes, a concrete path carved in the areas of lesser slope leads visitors from the base to the closest point to the archaeological site, articulating between axes of panoramic view and rest areas. On the eastern slope, native species in bright bloom are the signal that characterizes the image of the place from the road below.
With a few but effective signs, the "traces" of Pontevedra brought back to light become again an integral part of the landscape and culture of the place.
- Project:
- First stage of“Trazas de Pontevedra”
- Location:
- Galicia, Spain
- Completion:
- 2021
- Client:
- Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA)
- Construction:
- Patrimonio Inteligente
- Main architects:
- Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea, Nasser B. Abulhasan
- Competition project leader:
- Pablo Sánchez de Vega
- Competition project team:
- Laura Sedano, Nicolás Martín, Lucía Azurmendi, Alfredo García
- Project and construction team leader:
- Pablo López
- Project team:
- Gonzalo Conde, Javier del Pozo, Carlota G.Touet
- Awards:
- European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA 2019 – Finalist in the Planning category, MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards 2018 –Commendation in the Cultural Regeneration category, LafargeHolcim Awards Europe 2017- Acknowledgment Prize, WAF Awards 2017 - Shortlisted in the “Culture Future Projects” category
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