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   EXERCISE I: MEDELLÍN

                         RECEPTION PAVILION FOR VISITORS/WORKSHOP SHED FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS.

                     The project area occupies the plot (white olive trees today) where two 13th century churches are settled: the closer churc of Santiago beside the roman theatre and the one of San Martín, to the west. These two churches are today isolated, with no housing, because the dwellers of the city of Medellín descended from the hill to the lain and to the river Guadiana.

                           The program is based in this way, listed according to the function of each volumetries :

        

                                                                                                      Welcoming Pavilion

                                     A-Bar/restaurant                                                         175m2           
                         B- Rest Area                                                                50m2
                         C- Warehouse                                                              10m2

                         D- Toilet                                                                      20m2

                         E- Ticket Office                                                            20m2

Pabilion for the Archaeologist

                        F- Working area, exterior                                            100m2

                        G- Working area, interior                                             100m2

                        H- Photo and drawing area                                            50m2

                         I- Restoration area                                                       75m2

                         J- Office and meeting room                                           50m2

                        K- Warehouse                                                              50m2

                        L- Toilet and dressing room                                           50m2

                        M- Archaeologist house                                               100m2

                                    Related area: platform, porticos                       200m2

                    We leave behind the idea of burying the project, as well as covering some boxes with a light veil, as Enric Miralles in Mercado Santa Caterina or Frank Gehry's. Now we focus on Cesar Portela's " Cementerio en Fisterre" (Galicia).

             Inspired by Sigheru Ban and Wang Shu we design different fachades or sides for these volumetries, and by introduceing into a path made by a kind of wood-frames as we were speaking about Land Art, we lead visitors through a tour along the road, discovering new and different buildings as they get to the castle and starting from the town. 

Description of the path

Yellow: Digging intervention

Green: Historical highlights

           

                 Every volumetry has an own letter (indicated previously) and number, depending on the use/function and the related finishing design of each function and volumetry.