Dematerialization
Julio De La Fuente (E)
Natalia Gutierrez Sanchez (E)
architects
Europan 9 Ama
runner-up
Between the “Orbayu” and the “Hulla” (“Orbayu”: Asturias word for fog, “Hulla” type of carbon from Asturias mines).
This works resolves the location AMA proposing a system to create a net of 30 wells, extrapolating first the determining factors and usual solutions to all locations and rehearsing the sytem on a particular well.
The system starts on a territorial scale, defining the virtual net, providing it with the program, granting it with a morphology and a way to adapt to limits. Then, the system must be provided with an identity of its own, and this is achieved by a land-art operation and a materiality that is sensitive to the coalfield, its history, its climate.
This project is connected to the following themes
Housing - Morphology
The distinctive morphology of the housing proposed in the project maintains a subtle interplay between classic apartment typologies, connection with the coalmining area and a desire to virtualise the verticality of the structure.
Nature - Proximity / Horizon
The project proposes a multiscale intervention that is both physical and programmatic: the method of urbanisation constitutes a local response that resonates with mining sites with similar challenges.