Coal Tainted Landscape

Coal Tainted Landscape

Final Project

Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Reus

The Final Project searches a way to face the complex territory of Alt Berguedà, in the north of Barcelona, reaching the Pyrenees. This environment has undergone many transformations throughout the last century. It is a world that has modified its physiognomy (reservoir), its mobility (train, roads, funiculars, cable cars) and has lost its economic driving force: mining. No evident signs of this convulsive and immediate past are found, only some graffiti try to make us recall, as written voices beside the main roads. Since the loos of coal mining as the main activity in the early nineties, we find a landscape dwelling between the present and the past, never again reaching its direction. Ghosts searched these days in the old coal mining installations may be a reflection of the bewildered state of the place. The project highlights a key point of overwhelming intensity in the territory: Fígols-les Mines. Now forgotten, it claims for attention. We work in a limit scenario, in which architecture seeks a new opportunity to intervene in a lost dialogue between man and nature. This tangible - intangible setup makes us wonder about which should be the degree of the intervention, what should be its intenisty, or on the contrary, should we just consider letting it fade… …a stairway and a lift, a memorial, ecovering old trails through the lush vegetation, small actions may rescue scattered pieces of our recent history architecture as a way of recomposing imagination disengaged by nowadays constant overlay of speeds…

Final project
Academic year
2016/2017
City
Alt Berguedà
国家
西班牙